Sentences with phrase «age drama like»

Not exact matches

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There is very little that compels us about this vision that is chiefly attributed to screenwriter Jason Fuchs (a contributor to Ice Age: Continental Drift) and director Joe Wright, a Brit who comes to this project having primarily made costume dramas like Atonement, 2012's Anna Karenina, and 2005's Pride & Prejudice.

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.

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.

Like the recently released coming - of - age drama «Morris for America,» I wonder who «Kicks» is for?

Everything looks like a dream in this coming - of - age drama that takes viewers back to 1951.

It Felt Like Love (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama about an envious, 14 year - old virgin (Gina Piersanti) who decides to seduce an older boy (Ronen Rubinstein) to match the exploits of her sexually - active BFF (Giovanna Salimeni).

An indulgent ensemble exercise about the realisations that come with encroaching age, Little White Lies is — like its collection of protagonists — too caught up in its own dramas to see the bigger picture.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Sport MPAA rating: PG Director: Barry Levinson Actors: Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger Plot: A middle - aged ballplayer with a checkered past rises from the depths like a Phoenix to take a losing team to the championship.

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.

The making of «Blue is the Warmest Color» sounds like it was a pretty uncomfortable experience — but nothing can be as awkward as the back - and - forth that's followed between the stars of the lesbian coming - of - age drama and its director.

With his initial output, from moody drama Shotgun Stories to coming - of - age tale Mud, director Jeff Nichols didn't initially appear like he belonged in this category.

A Girl like Grace (Unrated) Ryan Destiny portrays the title character in this coming - of - age drama as a grieving 17 year - old who is taken under the wing of her late BFF's (Paige Hurd) street-wise big sister (Meagan Good) after the friend commits suicide.

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»).

Sony Picture Classics has already purchased this film, which gives you some idea just how much they liked this coming - of - age drama.

The various elements often seem to clash: Golden Age musical and the»30s - or»60s - style left - wing labor drama, the young cast careening and leaping to songs like «Seize the Day» while the writers try to fill a broad canvas with social detail.

Set against the heavenly hills of Sils Maria, Switzerland, this chamber drama traps an aging actress (Juliette Binoche), her raw and responsive assistant (Kristen Stewart), and an ingenue gunning for fame (Chloë Grace Moretz), as they swirl through each other's lives like a mist.

The film is exceptionally written — every line of dialogue sounds like something a person might actually say and, as someone who was a high school senior in 2002, it felt so authentic that I thought I was watching a documentary about my generation's coming - of - age instead of a comedy - drama from the co-writer of Frances Ha and Mistress America.

Paul Logan's script reads like a build your own melancholy indie drama instruction manual, equipping our protagonist with your run of the mill disappointed offspring (Chris Messina), a quirky age - inappropriate romantic interest (Holly Hunter) and of course, a sickly pet; a cat named Fanny.

As for age groups, the PG - 13 film plays like a slightly more aggressive PG movie, though the drama asks for mature attention.

Take a company like BioWare: it makes great genre adventures like Dragon Age and Mass Effect but it would be fascinating to see the studio tackling a drama, something in the real - world.