Sentences with phrase «age drama starring»

«THE LAST SONG,» a coming - of - age drama starring multi-talented singer / songwriter / actress Miley Cyrus, Kelly Preston and Greg Kinnear, begins production in Savannah, Ga., this week.

The debut feature from David O. Russell is a coming of age drama starring Jeremy Davies as Raymond, an intelligent young man who comes home from school to reluctantly take care of his mother.

This coming - of - age drama stars Margaret Qualley and Dianna Agron and had its world premiere at Sundance.

Julia Ducournau's morbid coming of age drama stars Garance Marillier as a young veterinary student, reserved and uncertain, who had never even swallowed a piece of meat in her life until an unexpected hazing ritual on her first day of college.

Jennifer Merin: This coming of age drama stars Danielle Macdonald in her breakthrough performance as a genuinely gifted teenage girl who is pushed around by her abusive and abused alcoholic mom and bullied by her less - than - inspired peers — all of whom are unaware of her huge and unexpected talent for rapping.

Not exact matches

Lisa loved acting as a child and was a full - time drama student by the age of nine starring in numerous films and television shows.

Justin Kirk and Joseph Fiennes star in this independent drama about a middle - aged man who decides to fulfill a childhood dream of swimming 150 miles of the Hudson River with his best friend rowing alongside for encouragement, but a bittersweet hidden agenda for the feat is gradually revealed.

The same can be said for 5 FLIGHTS UP, a hugely enjoyable if slight drama starring Oscar winners Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman as an aging married couple who decide to sell their walk - up Brooklyn apartment before they get too old to take the stairs.

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.

Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of - age drama from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.

Naming Number Two (PG for smoking, sensuality, mature themes, mild epithets, and brief violence) Set in the Fiji islands, this intergenerational drama stars Ruby Dee as an aging, widowed matriarch who has summoned her dispersed relatives together for a family reunion and a traditional feast during which she plans to pick her successor.

Last fall, Shailene starred in the coming - of - age drama White Bird in a Blizzard, directed by Gregg Araki.

Harry Dean Stanton's final film, John Carroll Lynch's Lucky, was the perfect farewell; the best teen film of the year was Ry Russo - Young's existential mystery / coming - of - age drama, Before I Fall, starring a wonderful Zoey Deutch.

In 2016, she stars in the drama «The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea» and the coming - of - age film «Katie Says Goodbye.»

Juliet Stevenson and Alex Lawther star in this drama about a mother and son, both «coming of age» on their own transformative journeys.

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Olivier Assayas latest drama Clouds of Sils Maria is debuting in France this week, the story of an aging actress (Juliette Binoche), starring in a new production of a play that made her famous a long time ago.

Telluride broke out Damien Chazelle's audacious musical romance «La La Land,» starring Best Actress Globe and SAG winner Emma Stone, as well as Barry Jenkins» coming - of - age ensemble drama «Moonlight» (A24), featuring SAG Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali («House of Cards»).

It highlights «Love, Simon,» the gay coming - of - age teen romantic drama from Fox, as a positive sign, as well as the Oscar win for Chile's «A Fantastic Woman,» which stars trans actress Daniela Vega as a trans character, released by Sony Classics.

One of the most underrated movies of the 1970s, John Huston's gritty boxing drama Fat City stars Stacy Keach as an aging pugilist and a young Jeff Bridges as his up - and - coming sparring partner.

Nat Wolff and model Cara Delevinge will star in the coming - of - age drama, which is being directed by Jake Schreier.

Punctuated by moments of youthful exuberance and mature ruminations, this coming of age drama, set amongst summery hues, is an extraordinarily moving snapshot of being a child in an adult world, anchored by flawless performances by its two young stars.

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....

Yet another urban action drama, better than some, worse than most, this stars Bruce Willis as a disillusioned middle - aged detective whose latent sense of justice is triggered when he is asked to accompany a witness (Mos Def) to the courthouse and finds that his fellow corrupt cops want to kill the guy.

HollywoodNews.com: Scott Bakula, star of TNT's hit drama «Men of a Certain Age,» will open the red carpet at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center for the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ® on Sunday, Jan. 30 with a Champagne Taittinger toast, executive producer and director Jeff Margolis announced today.

As impressive as Ruffalo is, though, the real star of this coming - of - age drama might be Forbes» autobiographical script, which is as compellingly specific as it is wise and thoughtful about class, race, family and parental sacrifice.

FilmRise has acquired exclusive North American distribution rights to coming - of - age drama «The Miseducation of Cameron Post,» starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

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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.

Tying for second place (with five nominations apiece) were two definite dramas: Boyhood, Richard Linklater's coming - of - age tale filmed over 12 years, and The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing.

His 2013 drama «Gloria,» which starred Paulina Garcia in as another unorthodox female lead — in this case, a middle - aged divorcee who finds new love — followed a similar trajectory to «A Fantastic Woman»: Both movies premiered to great acclaim at the Berlin International Film Festival and landed rave reviews.

IFC has debuted a trailer for an indie sports drama titled Wolves, a coming - of - age story about a star basketball player struggling with pressures and problems in his family.

She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming - of - age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).

After receiving her third Oscar nomination by the age of 23, Saoirse Ronan will follow up «Lady Bird» with a return to her period drama roots, starring alongside four - time Oscar nominee Annette Bening for an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's stage classic «The Seagull.»

Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams star in this baseball drama about an aging scout who takes his daughter on a recruiting trip.

Another actors» vehicle is Andy Serkis» well - directed drama «Breathe,» about real - life polio survivor Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield), who thanks to his clever wife («The Crown» star Claire Foy) and a group of loyal and inventive friends lived to age 64 and revolutionized the standards of what was possible for polio victims.

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....

Bright Star (PG for mature themes, sensuality, smoking and mild epithets) Oscar - winner Jane Campion (for The Piano) wrote and directed this 19th Century costume drama about the three - year romance of poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) which ended prematurely when he contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 25.

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).

Current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include Victoria & Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria; Darkest Hour, directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill; the untitled Entebbe project, a gripping political thriller directed by José Padilha and starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl; Jason Reitman's new comedy Tully, starring Charlize Theron and written by Diablo Cody; Lenny Abrahamson» atmospheric thriller The Little Stranger; Joel Edgerton's coming - of - age and coming - out drama Boy Erased starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe; Mary, Queen of Scots with Saoirse Ronan as Mary and Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I; and the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day - Lewis.

Robinson was one of the stars in the coming - of - age drama Kings of Summer, released by CBS Films and once known as Toy's House, which told of three boys building a house in the woods.

Justin Kirk is now set to star opposite Jennifer Garner in the indie coming - of - age drama, taking over the role initially set for Moyer, who exited the pic earlier this month due to scheduling issues.

The 23 - year - old actress stars as teenager Christine in the new movie by Greta Gerwig, and the coming - of - age drama has been nominated for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards.

Soda's fellow countryman Hirohara Saturo rightly won the Dragons & Tigers award (from an all - star jury made up of Jia Zhang - ke, Bong Joon - ho, and Denis Coté) for the relaxed yet increasingly disturbing coming - of - age drama Good Morning to the World!

Matt Marshall reviews «Patti Cake $,» the coming - of - age rap drama starring Danielle Macdonald, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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

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).

The golden age of audio dramas arguably ended in the 1950s, when television established itself as the dominant home entertainment leader and many of radio's top shows and stars jumped ship to the new medium.