Sentences with phrase «about precocious»

And maybe, we had a different movie franchise directed by Chris Columbus about a precocious boy with mysteriously absent parents, battling an evil bald man.

Luca Guadagnino's gorgeous Call Me by Your Name, set in 1983 in Northern Italy, adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17 - year - old named Elio (Timothée Chalamet) who falls in lust and love with his father's 24 - year - old graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer).

Luca Guadagnino's new film, which adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17 - year - old who falls in lust and love with his father's 24 - year - old graduate student, is remarkable for how it turns literature into pure cinema, all emotion and image and heady sensation.

Luca Guadagnino's gorgeous new film Call Me By Your Name adapts André Aciman's 2007 novel about a precocious 17 - year - old named Elio (Timothée Chalamet), who falls in lust and love with his father's 24 - year - old graduate student, Oliver (Armie Hammer).

How was a movie about a precocious, 11 - year - old who's helping to raise his little brother and his immature mom also a film about the mom trying to assassinate their next - door neighbor because he's molesting his stepdaughter?

Those segments are then tied together by a story about a precocious young girl who, by the way, has an animal sidekick and that is filled with pratfalls, innocently mischievous humor, and a couple of jokes about how «icky» kissing is.

Coraline Teri Hatcher and Dakota Fanning add their voices to this 3D animated feature about a precocious and frustrated young girl, Coraline, who discovers a tunnel to a parallel world where everything seems perfect; but all is not what it seems as the truth comes out and Coraline is trapped.

This acclaimed indie film about a precocious Cincinnati girl added Los Angeles this week and continues to show appeal as well as strong reviews in its early dates.

André Aciman's 2007 novel, about a precocious 17 - year - old boy falling in love with an older man on vacation in Italy, was wildly acclaimed but seemed like it'd be difficult to translate to screen.

The Golden Compass (PG - 13 for fantasy violence) Epic escapist fantasy, based on Philip Pullman's award - winning novel, about a precocious 12 year - old scholar (Dakota Blue Richards) already attending Oxford who ventures into a parallel universe to save her best friend and other children kidnapped by an evil organization known as the Gobblers.

Now Baker's taken on Cannes with The Florida Project — this time shot on 35 mm film — about a precocious six year - old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with adventure,

««Contrary to popular conceptions about precocious college dropouts with big ideas, U.S. innovators actually tend to be experienced and highly educated,» concludes the study, which is based on a survey of more than 900 people associated with «meaningful and marketable» recent inventions.

He looked at the youngster and said something about «the next Oscar Robertson,» and the clamor to find out more about this precocious player became so great that his coach put him off - limits.

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There's a profound insight here about our Darwinian natures untutored by civilization or about the immaturity of even a precocious girl.

There is something perfectly Reagan-esque about a government that is at once malevolent, omnipotent, and vulnerable to the meddling of precocious children.

Fresh off the bread - baking spree launched by my precocious 9 year old daughter's solo foray into the art of gluten - free yeast bread, I've fielded lots of questions this week about the nuances of this sometimes elusive prize we call homemade gluten - free bread.

In the spirit of pleasing the most perfectly precocious cherub I know here is an abbreviated version of our conversation about these amazingly delicious BBQ sweet potatoes.

I clearly am very passionate about this topic because sleep just did not come easily for my happy, lively, precocious now 10 month old daughter.

While trying to teach your toddler or infant about Mozart may be precocious, teaching them about sharing and handling themselves in an appropriate way, can and should start at a very young age.

We, at Rishikul Yogshala, are highly precocious and meticulous about conducting Hatha Yoga Training and so, only the best and the most authentic aspects of this discipline are imparted to our students across our schools in India, Nepal, Vietnam, and Thailand.

The Nanny Diaries (PG - 13 for profanity) Sacrlett Johansson handles the title role in this romantic comedy, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, about a college grad nanny for a wealthy Manhattan family who finds herself having to put up with the parents» (Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti) dysfunction and the demands of their precocious son (Nicholas Art) until hope arrives in a relationship with a well - heeled, handsome Harvard alumnus (Chris Evans) from Park Avenue.

The kids, led by six - year - old Moonee (the arrestingly but never studiedly precocious Brooklynn Prince), regard the motel as the fairy - tale castle it garishly pretends to be, scampering about like Eloise in a down - market Plaza under the watchful eye of beleaguered manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe, radiating exhausted compassion).

Complexity comes in the form of these two being complete strangers separated by about 35 years; one is a precocious 12 - year old girl; the other a 40 - something man.

Through it all, only March's precocious adolescent daughter Holly (rising star Angourie Rice) seems to have any grasp of what's really going on — a neat device that not only provokes some sassy, sentimental comedy about March's uselessness as a father, but also provides Black with a handy get - out - of - jail - free card against accusations of reductively macho stereotyping.

He does take the lead in Ruby Sparks, a whimsical fantasy about a once - precocious novelist now scuppered by writer's block.

«Buy Me a Gun» Review: A Precocious and Arresting Fable About the Violence of Mexico's Drug Cartels — Cannes 2018

Her mother (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) and precocious adopted brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) hold out hope that Dr. Murry is out there somewhere, but that hope becomes something a bit more when an eccentric stranger, Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) appears at the house, claiming to have knowledge about her missing father's whereabouts.

Based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name, the film begins in 1951 as Marcus Messner (Lerman), a precocious young Jewish boy, is about to enter college life and, by extension, avoid being drafted for the Korean War.

DJ (voiced by Mitchel Musso, «Hannah Montana») is a precocious young boy on the verge of turning teen that is sure something is amiss about the ominous house across the street, owned by the cantankerous curmudgeon, Nebbercracker (Buscemi, The Island).

«There were a number of things that appealed to me about the part,» the 21 - year - old actor says of Elio, a precocious high schooler summering with his parents — and a visiting graduate student, a friend of his father's — in their family seat in northern Italy.

By the time he picks up his adorable and precocious niece from school and drives her around while she talks about the trouble she's having making a short film for her class under Iran's expansive media guidelines, the intent is clear.

It interviews a precocious Léaud about his experience making the film and about one standout scene he reveals was improvised.

In that way, the film often brings to mind Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer's unbearably contrived 9/11 novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, in which a precocious little boy unlocks a mystery about his father while taking a quirky tour of Manhattan and its varied people.

The Family Guide is about a son (Eli Baker) who idolizes his blind father (J.K. Simmons) and is bemused by his precocious mother as he watches his family become closer post-divorce.

HBO said he «opens up about his bittersweet childhood and lifelong obsession with moviemaking, his precocious early work as a TV «wunderkind,» his rise to fame through an incredible string of blockbusters, his later forays into more serious dramatic films, and the personal and professional relationships he's cultivated through the years.»

He talks, in «Frames of Mind,» about Jean - Paul Sartre, a famous French philosopher, and novelist who was «extremely precocious» as a young child but «so skilled at mimicking adults, including their style and register of talk, that by age five he could enchant audiences with his linguistic fluency.»

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

I'm a stay - at - home mum to five precocious children and wife to the ultra-handy Dave by day and a snoop by night, stalking interesting characters through historical settings, and writing about their exploits.

Not having you around to divert him, a precocious feline could get a little extra curious about those antique figurines on the shelf.

But one would like to find out more about similar precocious qualifiers for art academies who then went on to achieve nothing but mediocrity or failure — in whom, of course, art historians are uninterested — or to study in greater detail the role played by Picasso's art - professor father in the pictorial precocity of his son.

Politicians are like precocious children whose parents ignore them in public and let them run wild — think about it, they really only upset other folks, not good old Mom and Dad.

So «we» have been thinking about this for a long time, or a precocious few have been.

My precocious child had used the worst language she knew to describe how she felt about school.