Sentences with phrase «age drama la»

The most visible: the new movie «The Perks of Being a Wallflower,» a coming - of - age drama about an introverted, misfit high school freshman who surprises a new group of friends with his sensitivity and capacity to listen.

The story was more driven by love, loss, and the coming of age drama that focused on Squall and friends.

Over-the-top arcade action meets coming - of - age drama, blurring the lines between game and reality.

REGiONRAT, a coming - of - age drama based on the novel by Richard Laskowski: Ray lives in the Region, an industrial wasteland in Northwestern Indiana.

Part adventure story, part alternate history, part political intrigue, part romance, part coming - of - age drama... 100 % awesome!

I also flipped for an Austrian coming - of - age drama, and I can't stop thinking about two very upsetting films - one about a terrible shooting in Norway, the other about a journalist falling in love with an ISIS recruiter over the internet.

Set in 1970s California, the film (out in the UK on February 10) is a coming - of - age drama fictionalising director Mike Mills's relationship with his own mother.

(Chad Hartigan (Luke and Brie Are on a First Date) takes the fish out of water slash coming of age drama to new areas in Morris From America.

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Ergüven directed the 2015 coming - of - age drama Mustangs, which was a favorite at Cannes and nominated for a best - foreign - language film Oscar.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS An American Affair (R for profanity and sexuality) Coming - of - age drama, set in 1963 against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, about the forbidden relationship which blossoms between a lonely 13 year - old (Cameron Bright) and the stunningly - beautiful divorcee (Gretchen Mol) who moves in next - door.

In 2009, prior to the Sundance debut of «An Education,» she called her mother in England after seeing a preview of the coming - of - age drama and said she was «terrible.»

Along with Stranger Things, Levy and 21 Laps» other recent productions include the critically acclaimed coming - of - age drama THE SPECTACULAR NOW starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller as well as the Fox comedy WHY HIM starring James Franco and Bryan Cranston, which has earned over $ 115 million to date.

Andrew Cividino's emotionally complex, visually arresting coming - of - age drama Sleeping Giant earned three awards, including Best Director of a Canadian Film for Cividino, Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film for newcomer Nick Serino and Best First Film by a Canadian Director.

Here you'll find one of 2017's most underrated films; an early Martin Scorsese classic; a unique coming - of - age drama; a melancholy musical; two vastly different documentaries; one of Spike Lee's most commercial (yet still excellent) films; a German action - horror film; and one nasty slasher movie.

Carey Mulligan No, it's not just «An Education» — though her vivid, heartbreaking work in Lone Scherfig's coming - of - age drama would be enough of a calling - card for any actor.

Recommendation: King Jack probably won't do much for those who seek closure and finality in their movies but it's a solid little coming - of - age drama whose events are effectively and often provocatively depicted.

While observers could celebrate the nomination of Greta Gerwig for best director for her coming - of - age drama «Lady Bird,» it was still outrageous that she was only the fifth female nominee in that category in 90 years of the awards (Kathryn Bigelow is still the only winner, for «The Hurt Locker»).

Hiko Mitsuzuka takes on the haunting and heart - wrenching coming - of - age drama «Moonlight» from writer - director Barry Jenkins.

Jesus (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama, set in Santiago, Chile, about a troubled 18 year - old's (Nicolas Duran) self - destructive descent into a depravity marked by sex, drugs and violence.

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama about a juvenile delinquent (George Pistereanu) just a couple weeks from being paroled after serving four years in a youth correctional facility who, against his better judgment, impulsively decides to hold hostage the cute social worker (Ada Condeescu) he has a crush on.

Situated somewhere between the recent adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time and a gender - reversal version of A Monster Calls, this coming - of - age drama could use a lighter touch while targeting its mix of fantasy and reality at teenagers.

The second runner - up for the coveted award was Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me By Your Name»; the coming - of - age drama premiered at Sundance back in January.

His breakthrough turn in 2006's Step Up showcased his history as a free - style street dancer, while his standout work in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints — a Sundance coming - of - age drama from earlier that same year — hinted at an actor whose radiant sweetness was ready to be exploited by the violence indicated by his body (the perfect equation for a contemporary action star).

James Ivory, 89, won best adapted screenplay for his script to the coming - of - age drama «Call Me By Your Name,» becoming the oldest winner ever.

When making a coming - of - age drama about a young boy growing up in the 60s, it usually pays to keep the focus tight.

Beach Rats: Eliza Hittman directs this coming - of - age drama about a teenager from Brooklyn who begins to come to terms with his homosexuality.

Grade: B + — Jeff Nichols takes an unexpected detour from the psychological horrors of Take Shelter with his latest film entitled Mud: a thoughtful coming - of - age drama driven by the limitless power of love — and the great lengths many of us go to find it, obtain it, and keep it.

I Killed My Mother (Unrated) 20 year - old Xavier Dolan wrote, directed and stars in this semi-autobiographical, coming - of - age drama about a gay teenager's tempestuous relationship with his mom (Anne Dorval).

Circumstance (R for sexuality, profanity and drug use) Iranian coming - of - age drama, set in present - day Teheran, revolving around the sexual awakenings of a rebellious, 16 year - old lesbian (Nikohl Boosheri) over the objections of her disapproving parents (Soheil Parsa and Nasrin Pakkho) and her uptight, orthodox Muslim brother (Rezo Sixo Safal).

It channels the same themes that have been recurrent throughout his career: As a coming - of - age drama it's reminiscent of Dazed and Confused; With the progression into adulthood it resembles SubUrbia or Tape; From the adults perspective and their relationship issues it's on the same path as the Before trilogy and all the while it questions life itself leading it philosophically into Waking Life territory.

Up until then, The Other could pass for an elegiac coming - of - age drama set against the backdrop of bucolic rural America just before the onset of World War II.

His coming - of - age drama «The Scouting Book For Boys» is something of a Playlist favorite; wrenching and dark and beautifully made, it sadly never got a U.S. release, despite being one of the better recent British films, but it's led to a lot more movie work.

The coming - of - age drama is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his family in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio.

Although the movie, a traditional coming - of - age drama, likely belongs in the oft - mocked «chick flick» genre, it's more than just a heartstring - puller with a hunky lead.

The coming - of - age drama is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his sheltered family life in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio, where he clashes with the dean.

Focusing on female roller derby — a sport rarely depicted in cinema (aside from Drew Barrymore's excellent but underseen coming - of - age drama Whip It)-- the film centres upon the players who brought the game to Ireland.

Following the release of the first poster [take a look here], a trailer has arrived online for Luca Guadagnino's coming - of - age drama Call Me By Your Name.

Meanwhile, Saoirse Ronan, 23, who is nominated for her part in coming - of - age drama Lady Bird, looked flawless as she was attended to by her glam squad, with foundation being applied to her radiant visage and her ombre locks being swept into a half updo.

Winner at the Fingal Film Festival for Best Feature, South is an amiable coming - of - age drama that captures warmly the awkwardness of youth, e.g. trying desperately to get served in off - licences to impress the opposite sex, getting into conversations with odd people by accident and not knowing how to excuse oneself.

Katie Holmes makes her directorial debut with «All We Had,» a coming - of - age drama based on Annie Weatherwax's novel.

Richard Linklater's coming - of - age drama wins big, but Mike Leigh's Turner biopic manages just one award

Linklater's nomination for his ambitious coming - of - age drama further solidifies his status as a front - runner in the Oscar derby.

The coming - of - age drama is based on Robert Lipsyte's young - adult novel One Fat Summer set in the 1970s, Deadline reported.

Logan Lerman stars in the coming - of - age drama, which is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his sheltered family life in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio, where he clashes with the dean (Tracy Letts) and falls for a classmate (Sarah Gadon).

Julia Ducournau's cannibalistic spin on the coming - of - age drama isn't the grisly endurance test its pre-release reputation suggested; any gruesomeness was probably going to provoke waves of nausea from a highbrow festival crowd.

The film will be titled American Honey, and it's reportedly a «coming - of - age drama» about a teenager who runs away from home and starts selling magazine...

Irish heavyweights Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy and Gabriel Byrne will star alongside Gleeson in the coming of age drama.

Richard Linklater's coming - of - age drama is astonishing, a gorgeous film in flux, blending Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life with John Updike's Rabbit novels.

Coming - of - age drama seen through the eyes of two boys - Ellis and Neckbone - who discover and befriend a charismatic fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) hiding on an island on the Mississippi.