Sentences with phrase «pixie dream boy»

Amie is rounded enough to be human rather than manic or pixie - like, leaving Sutter to play the Manic Pixie Dream Boy — the guy who can give her what she's never had in her life.

Rudd might just be cinema's first Manic Pixie Dream Boy: the dynamic is the same — impish life - lover devoid of an inner life or personal needs shakes up the lives of the depressed and anxious — even if the gender dynamics are reversed.

As a friend of mine pointed out, it's also entirely possible that he counts as a manic pixie dream boy, which surely must be a cinema first.

The Manic Pixie Dream Boy trope has also been pointed out in sitcoms such as Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock.