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Synopsis: Fast - paced thriller, based on the John Grisham bestseller, about a boy whose life is endangered after he stumbles across vital information about a... [MORE]

Synopsis: Fast - paced thriller, based on the John Grisham bestseller, about a boy whose life is endangered after he stumbles across vital information about a politician's murder.

Another was about a boy whose mother made him take ballet, which led to his being bullied.

Not exact matches

What about the 7 - year - old boy who was brainwashed into fighting or the teenager whose father volunteered him for a suicide mission?

This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like diversity can be trivialized, as when a mother brags about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.

One day in the grocery store I was talking to anyone who would listen about this, when a woman relayed the story of a friend whose baby boy wouldn't sleep — until the mom eliminated dairy from her diet.

The experience even haunted me in the first two years at my state college when I was flirting with a cute boy whose younger sister went to my HS and subsequently told me he'd «heard things about me.»

In this DVD, Pocket Snails Potty Adventure, the intrepid snail trio Gordon, Dale and Buttons help a little boy Jake, whose pocket they reside in, teach his younger sister about using the potty.

McCain was responding to a question from the mother of a boy with autism, who asked about a recent story that the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program had issued a judgment in favor of an unnamed child whose family claimed regressive encephalopathy and symptoms of autism were caused by thimerosal.

We were just chatting about life as new moms, and one of the moms, whose sweet baby boy is only a month younger than Lilly, and I started talking about life as a WORKING new mom.

Outside of Jason Biggs, whose Jim Levinstein character is the poster boy for sexual humiliation, we don't remember squat about the Pie universe.

(One wonders about a respected reverend who loses one boy to drink and whose daughter is considered by some to be the town slut.)

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith hollywoodnews.com: Annie Potts admits, «I was not quite prepared to have an empty nest» — but such is soon to be the case for the former «Designing Women» star, whose three boys «are just about all grown.

While there (and wondering, once again, why the only two X-Men he ever sees are Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus), he is told about a troubled young boy named Russell Collins (Julian Dennison), whose powers are the ability to generate fire from his fists.

Nick Stoller directs this comedy about a frat boy whose bad behavior affects a local neighbor's family life.

Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are starring in this comedy about a family man whose life is upended by a hard - partying frat boy.

The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller starring Robin Williams as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).

Written by Eric Eason («Manito») from a story by Roger L. Simon, it's sensitively directed by Chris Weitz («Twilight: New Moon,» «The Golden Compass,» «About a Boy,» «American Pie»), whose grandmother, Mexican actress Lupita Tovar, emigrated in the 1920s and whose wife is half - Cuban / half - Mexican.

Cuarón returns topside with «Parc Monceau,» a fantastic one - take tracking shot following Nick Nolte and Ludivine Sagnier as they talk about a new man in her life, and Chomet's whimsical «Tour Eiffel» tells the story of a young boy whose parents are mimes.

, which he co-writes with Kirsten Miller, is about a young boy whose worst nightmares come to life.

For one thing, it's about Beach Boys singer Brian Wilson, whose life utterly defies an ordinary telling.

Krystal: The opening night film, about a sheltered Southern boy whose life changes when he falls for a troubled older woman, has plenty of quirks, laughs and profound moments.

(Best running gag: Nicole being aggressively wooed by a little boy she babysits whose voice has dropped early, making him sound like he's about 40.)

British director Haigh, whose last film 45 Years was voted the Guardian's film of the year in 2015, receives a competition berth for Lean on Pete, an adaptation of Willy Vlautin's novel about the relationship between a young boy and a failed racehorse.

Peter Strickland, whose other feature movie «Katalan Varga» is about a woman traveling in the Carpathian Mountains with a small boy seeking vengeance against her abusers, is on a similar track in his sophomore feature about Gilderoy, an innocent abroad who seems too overcome by inertia to escape extreme culture shock and thereby reverts into his own hallucinatory world.

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMboy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMBOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMboy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMBOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMboy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

Synopsis: A story about the power of dreams told through the experiences of a brave and talented boy whose idol is the famous football player Amoory.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 7, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (PG - 13 for mature themes) Holocaust drama about the 8 year - old son (Asa Butterfield) of a concentration camp commander (David Thewlis) whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy (Jack Scanlon) interned on the other side of the fence leads to devastating consequencBoy in the Striped Pajamas (PG - 13 for mature themes) Holocaust drama about the 8 year - old son (Asa Butterfield) of a concentration camp commander (David Thewlis) whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy (Jack Scanlon) interned on the other side of the fence leads to devastating consequencboy (Jack Scanlon) interned on the other side of the fence leads to devastating consequences.

Writer - director Andrew Haigh follows up on the exceptional 45 Years, about a British couple who've been married for half a century, with a new film whose main character is a teenage American boy from a broken family.

It strikes the right chords, not only as a personal story of one boy's confusion with his own identity, but also of the confusion of an entire country, whose peoples were conflicted about a war they didn't want, and a bubbling under of anti-immigration sentiment that left foreign newcomers largely unprotected to skinhead gangs like the one depicted in the film.

For his next feature, Reitman is directing Kate Winslet, Tobey Maguire, and Josh Brolin in a film about a young boy and his agoraphobic mother whose lives are turned upside down when an ex-con enters the picture.

Ideal Home is both written and directed by Fleming, and is about a wealthy, bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten - year old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus» grandson.

I»M NOT SCARED (Grade: B +): Gabriele Salvatores, whose «Mediterraneo» won a best - foreign language film Oscar in 1991, directed this absorbing, suspenseful and painfully poignant childhood drama about a 9 - year - old boy faced with an unusual moral dilemma in the golden Italian summer of 1978.

The plot would require large quantities of weed to comprehend fully, but in brief, Troll 2 is about a young boy whose family relocates to a sinister town overrun by grotesque «vegetarian» goblins who transform humans into plants before devouring them.

The play is essentially about a boy during WWI whose father sells his horse to the military and thus goes on a journey through war - ravaged Europe to find his equine best friend.

The movie, about a boy (Thomas Mann) whose mother (person - we - wish - we - were, Connie Britton) forces him to befriend a former Hebrew school classmate with leukemia (Cooke), may sound like dying - teen schmaltz, but don't dismiss it just yet.

The director of 45 Years is Andrew Haigh, only 42 himself, whose first feature, Greek Pete (2009) was about a year in the life of a London rent boy, debuting at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

The backers of this lawsuit include a «who's who» of the billionaire boys club and their front groups whose real agendas have nothing to do with protecting students, but are really about privatizing public schools.

For a while, for example, Mansoor Ahmed, the Muslim boy injured in the attack — who is about my age and whose first semester of college in California is defined by 9/11, just as mine was — seemed too much like myself; I couldn't write him.

When Anna actually meets a boy who is more than just useful, whose family eats dinner together, laughs, and tells stories, the truth about love becomes clear.

Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History.

Set at a Catholic boys» school in Dublin, Paul Murray's second work of fiction is about Daniel «Skippy» Juster, a 14 - year - old whose death occurs early in this comic - ironic novel — a classic tale of adolescence.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.

The result is a haunting, emotional tale about a teenage girl's unraveling, and a boy whose very identity feels entwined in a house condemned for demolition.

When it was time to sleep, they would inevitably beg me to read «just one more chapter,» not wanting to break from the captivating story of a special boy named Auggie, whose facial abnormalities brought about sizable challenges — and rewards — during his first year in a real school.

Our guide, Mira, hopped on — with no visible effort — to Blue, a stunning boy of about four years old, whose slate - coloured coat shone in the Febru...

- game about a girl whose cat is floating away on a helium balloon - will be released as a ROM and on physical Game Boy cartridges - main character must bounce on enemy heads while dodging obstacles to reach the top of each stage - she can also jump and dash while in the air, - due out early 2017

He thought of the more minor offenders, agonizing over the young ones especially, whose lives were spiraling, the ones who perhaps had things left in them to do, the ones who wouldn't likely ever murder, but had been unable to extricate themselves from these spirals, from their deranged fathers or their addled mothers, from the lack of any parents, from sexual abuse, from the vagaries of the foster care system, from the sorts of daily hurdles that Walters would never have dreamed about — the boys (and occasional girls) who were at that corner, who could turn, the ones whose direction wasn't already set.