Sentences with phrase «age story centered»

The Chi, Season 1: THE CHI is a timely coming - of - age story centering on a group of residents of the South Side of Chicago who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

Some of my all - time favorite movies are coming - of - age stories centered on kids battling monsters, and the Chris Columbus - produced I Kill Giants...

This coming - of - age story centers on two 1970s parochial - school students who express their frustrations by drawing a lurid comic book, but get into trouble when their discontents spill into the real world.

Produced entirely in its namesake city, The Chi is a coming - of - age story centering on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

A coming of age story centering on a young woman's adventures in Northern California, the film is set to become one of this fall's most - talked - about releases.

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At the center of the story is Renée, an ugly middle - aged woman of the working classes, the concierge of the building.

You'll also find these two free story times in our Daily Calendar: In Durham, The Doris Duke Center at Duke University will host a Nature Storytime from 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. for ages 3 - 7 with their parents.

There are so many awesome slides and activities for all ages, and a 4 - story tree house water fort in the center of it all.

The age of the child on whom the story centers is not specified; it could be a baby, toddler, teen or any age in between which makes this story a great fit for adoptive families.

Her family had a blast at the two - story, 25,000 - square - foot Treehouse Kids» Adventure Center, the hub of the destination's summer camp programs, with its family - friendly climbing gym, teen activities, and themed rooms for kids of all ages.

In this punk coming of age story, rebellious Mae is sent to do community service at an AIDS center after getting in trouble with the law.

Gerwig's warmth as an artist becomes important, because in «Lady Bird» she is dealing in what is often the most self - centered of forms, the coming - of - age story; particularly, the coming - of - age story based on the filmmaker's own life.

The story centers around Josh Srebnick (Stiller) and his wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts), a middle aged couple living in Brooklyn.

With (really) offbeat humor, the story centers on man - child «Clinton» (Fran Kranz) who still lives with his mother «Edie» (Blythe Danner) at age thirty - something, lazily watches television in a dirty robe, and fights with neighborhood kids over action figures at his own makeshift yard sale.

Pam Grady: Ostensibly the story of an actress facing uncomfortable truths about aging head - on when she agrees to play a role in a revival of the play that made her famous, Clouds of Sils Maria is more intriguing in its exploration of the relationship between Juliette Binoche's star and the personal assistant (a dazzling Kristen Stewart in her Cesar Award - winning performance) she expects to fill her every needs — including the lonely void at the center of her life.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The story centers on Ricki Rendazzo (Meryl Streep, «Into the Woods»), a middle - aged musician whose rock star dreams seduced her away from a husband and three children.

Written and directed by Fox, it centers on Jennifer (Laura Dern), a globetrotting filmmaker and professor whose mother finds a story Jennifer wrote at age 13 depicting a «special relationship» with two adult coaches.

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

Other minor story lines include the center's director (Alexander Cook) who admittedly hates old people as he searches for a miracle potion to prevent his own aging, Molly's struggle with dementia which can only be soothed with her fur coat or relief in bed, and a last hurrah field trip to a local sports bar with the nurse, Abe and Phil.

At the center of this story's curious intrigue is its enigmatic auteur, Tommy Wiseau, a man who denies (in Trump - ish fashion) his obvious foreign accent and old age.

Set in 1997 and loosely inspired by a Tolstoy short story, Diaz's meditation on vengeance and grace centers on Horacia (Charo Santos - Concio), a matronly middle - aged woman who has spent 30 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit and has now returned to look for the ex-boyfriend who framed her.

Related Reviews: New: Toy Story 3 • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Elf (Ultimate Collector's Edition) • The Goonies (25th Anniversary Collector's Edition) Starring Selena Gomez - Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie • Wizard School • Supernaturally Stylin» Princess Protection Program Selena Gomez Guest Spot: Hannah Montana: One in a Million Selena Gomez Music Video: Tinker Bell Walden Media: Journey to the Center of the Earth • Bridge to Terabithia • City of Ember • Holes • The Water Horse Fox Family Films: Diary of a Wimpy Kid • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief • Marmaduke • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Why We're Excited: Coming - of - age stories are always the best sort of films, but this one's rooted in something that isn't always talked about in the mainstream — conversion therapy centers.

In his new book, A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America, Dudley Clendinen, a former national reporter and editorial writer for the New York Times, chronicles the compelling life stories of the residents at a Life Care center in Tampa Bay.

Retailing Trade A Tape Comics Center has been serving comics fans in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 1975, and owner Larry Lorenz tells the story of how he bought the store at age 19 from the previous owner, Lee Aronsohn, who went on to Los Angeles and became the co-creator of Two and a Half Men.

Love stories inspired by classic lit take center stage in these two new comedic coming - of - age teen romances.

Primarily centered around the complement of Peacekeepers assigned to the station, led by Commander Thomas Beak, each story is a window upon the new era known as the Age of Responsibility, or Onuissance, and the people who will define that era.

Meet every Tuesday at the APA Adoption Center from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Stories will be appropriate for children ages 2 - 5 years.

Villa Atlante is a characteristic and welcoming two - story age - old farm house which dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century, at a short distance from the center.

While the forty hour main story that centers on the dis - empowered ruler Vivec and the discovery of a secret society (and of course, saving the world) is interestingly told, written, and performed there is a sense that Morrowind comes from an earlier age of MMOs and RPGs.

«a / drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture,» curated by Josh Decter, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY, October 26, 1996 — January 5, 1997 «On Paper II,» Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, MO, January 23 — February 20, 1996 «Tangles,» Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November 2 — December 21, 1996 «Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists,» Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, 1996; traveled to the New York School of Design, New York, NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS «The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible,» Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, UK, 1996; traveled to the Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK; Glynn Vivan Art Gallery, Swansea, UK; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK; catalogue «Hotter Than July,» Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1996 «a / drift,» Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson, NY, 1996; catalogue «Inclusion / Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global Migration,» Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria, 1996; catalogue «Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,» National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece, 1996; traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; catalogue «Burning Issues: Contemporary African - American Art,» Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; brochure «Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980 - 1995,» Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1996; catalogue «10th Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant,» Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1996; catalogue «The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collection,» Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1996; traveled to Forum for Contemporary Art, St Louis, MO «An American Story,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1996 «Festival Exit,» Maison des Arts de la Culture, Paris - Creteil, France, 1996 «Screen,» Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY; video catalogue «Prospect «96,» Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, 1996; catalogue

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