A new UK trailer has debuted for Greg Berlanti's coming - of -
age comedy drama Love, Simon which stars Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg, Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, and Tony Hale; watch it here... Everyone deserves a great love story.
Ahead of its release on these shores later this month, a UK trailer has arrived online for the coming of
age comedy drama The Edge of Seventeen.
The latest of these goldies for oldies is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a coming of old -
age comedy drama about finding yourself, even if it's only in the autumn years.
Asa Butterfield leads this»80s - set coming - of -
age comedy drama as a typical teen — moody, bored, into punk music — whose freewheeling dropkick of a...
Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel's critically acclaimed drama Before Night Falls the previous year, it was his turn as a naïve, sex - starved teen in Cuarón's coming - of -
age comedy drama that catapulted him to international stardom.
Not exact matches
The critically - acclaimed Amazon
drama Transparent — created by Jill Soloway and inspired by her own father's transition at
age 75 — won the 2015 Golden Globe for best TV series, musical or
comedy, thereby increasing its odds to score an Emmy (or two) come September.
A handful of men and women «of a certain
age» pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this
comedy drama from writer - director Susan Seidelman.
He tackled two of his last assignments in the 2006 omnibus picture Paris, je t «aime and the 2008
comedy -
drama Looking for Palladin, prior to his death at
age 86 in early February 2012.
An African - American girl living in Brooklyn comes of
age in this
comedy -
drama.
A funny, sad, scary and ultimately tragic coming - of -
age drama / black
comedy that skillfully — and uncompromisingly — creates its own world and uniquely pessimistic vision.
Equal parts road
comedy and coming - of -
age drama, director Taika Waititi masterfully weaves lively humor with emotionally honest performances by Sam Neill and Julian Dennison.
Larson's other film credits include the
comedy HOUSEBROKEN starring Danny DeVito, the coming - of -
age drama TANNER HALL, and the dark
comedy JUST PECK starring Marcia Cross and Keir Gilchrist.
Dotted with honest observational
drama and
comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of -
age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.
Five other feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis
comedy -
drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era
drama «Bridge of Spies,» coming - of -
age tale «Brooklyn,» harrowing
drama «Room,» and journalism docu -
drama «Spotlight.»
Greta Gerwig won the best screenplay award for her Oscar - nominated coming - of -
age comedy -
drama Lady Bird.
Attempts at
comedy, be it Hook and Smee banter or the Lost Boys» childish antics, are just as feeble as Jane's coming - of -
age drama.
But Post, who broke into directing in 1950, managed to build a résumé that could have belonged to a golden -
age Hollywood journeyman like Michael Curtiz, who in 1935 knocked out a labor
drama, a workplace romance, and an action picture in rapid succession, along with a Perry Mason programmer, a gangster
comedy, and part of an Al Jolson — Ruby Keeler backstage musical that somehow burned through three directors.
At the
age of just 18, Cruz made her big screen debut in this lurid
comedy drama next to her future husband Javier Bardem.
In films such as Oscar - winning coming - of -
age drama Boyhood (2014) and teen
drama -
comedy Everybody Wants Some!!
I liked Driving Lessons, a sharp, engaging, and amusing
comedy /
drama that does well as a coming - of -
age film, family
drama, and unlikely friendship tale.
Ade stews her broad
comedy premise into profound
drama; Toni Edrmann is a movie about
aging and identity, finances and workplace inequality, goofy pranks and poignant stillness.
Also new: coming - of -
age high school
comedy Dude (2018, not rated) with Lucy Hale and Alexandra Shipp and romantic
drama Porto (2016, not rated, with subtitles) featuring Anton Yelchin in one of his final performances.
This week on streaming video, we've got Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise, an underseen animated film, an indie
comedy, an acclaimed coming - of -
age film from Sweden, and a retro space
drama currently in theaters.
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The coming of
age comedy /
drama The Way, Way Back opens this weekend in limited release.
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Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for the coming of
age comedy /
drama The Way, Way Back.
This is the kind of American independent
comedy -
drama that restores our faith in the cinema, combining a talented cast, witty direction and a razor - sharp script to reboot the coming - of -
age genre.
Behind the scenes she has edited for movies such as the fantasy
drama «The
Age of Adaline,» the holiday
comedy «Four Christmases,» and romance
drama «The Vow,» among many more.
Spikier than the average coming - of -
age movie, this astute
comedy -
drama is packed with memorable characters and resonant situations.
In movies, coming - of -
age has become convenient shorthand for the crush of stories about the high school crowd — sci - fi,
drama,
comedy, horror, take your pick.
Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Woody Harrelson star in this coming - of -
age comedy -
drama about an endearing but self - absorbed teen whose life goes into a tailspin after her older brother starts dating her best friend....
However, like all Edgar, Frost and Pegg collaborations, the shackles of convention are forcefully removed as they take this ordinary and somewhat touching coming of
age drama and lead it down the action / sci - fi /
comedy path.
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Neil Hamburger reteams with The
Comedy director Rick Alverson for a
drama about a broken and
aging stand - up comedian.
Baseball has been at the foreground of a diverse group of great films, from the classic
drama Pride of the Yankees to the screwball
comedy Major League, from coming - of -
age tale The Sandlot to Disney's own spiritual family dramedy Angels in the Outfield.
Instead of sticking to
comedy, Burnham branches out with a coming - of -
age drama that chronicles a shy teen's final weeks of eighth grade.
The AFCA also announced its Best Austin Film nominees: two films from director Jeff Nichols, the harrowing period
drama «Loving» and the sci - fi thriller «Midnight Special;» Keith Maitland's animated documentary «Tower;» Greg Kwedar's border patrol thriller «Transpecos;» and Clay Liford's coming of
age comedy «Slash.»
Britell cut his teeth as a virtuoso pianist at an early
age, landing in Juilliard's pre-college division, but since then he's become known for his finesse to deliver an emotional range to both
drama and
comedy features.
It certainly plays half of the time as a coming - of -
age drama with war elements, but in the mix we also find rebel - punk angst, teen romance, quirky
comedy, and, perhaps most oddly, a fantasy element involving telepathic connections between characters.
Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of -
age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung
comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong stars as an
aging punk rocker coping with life after rock in this
comedy -
drama with Fred Armisen, Selma Blair and Judy Greer....
After shooting to prominence at the
age of 19 in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, she'd caught the eye in a couple of Woody Allen
comedies before getting mixed up a string of dull period
dramas and dodgy romcoms.
The teen coming of
age comedy /
drama The Edge of Seventeen scored a Best Picture nomination as well as a nomination for its writer / director Kelly Fremon Craig but strangely snubbed the film's lead, Golden Globe nominee Hailee Steinfeld (in a field of six,...
It's part teenage
comedy, coming of
age, family
drama, and character study — yet it's also so much more.
Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life
drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a
drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi
drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's
drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different
ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s
comedy about the world of sports mascots.
Peter Mullan and Sam Neill star in the Scottish golf
drama Tommy's Honour (2017, PG) and Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore are daughter and mother in the coming - of -
age comedy LOL (2012, PG - 13).
The film fluctuates between parody, tribute, straight - up reboot, coming - of -
age drama, gross - out
comedy and surreal commentary on blockbusters in general.