Sentences with phrase «aimless youths»

Like Lean on Pete, Arnold's film follows a rootless teenager in search of some form of familial belonging — in her case, with a gang of likewise aimless youths hawking magazine subscriptions across the midwest — but is supersized and expressively unruly where Haigh's is contained and watchful.

When the young Frederick (Nikolai Kinski) comes in possession of the partial copy of a long forbidden Stanley Kubrick movie, it sparks a growing movement amongst the city's formerly aimless youths, developing fast into serious opposition to the ruling system, which retaliates with rapidly increasing brutality.

Meanwhile, the Director's Fortnight favorite Tu Dors Nicole (Grade: B +) belongs to a genre I'm a sucker for: the last - summer - of - adolescence movie, in which some aimless youth passes slowly out of childhood, perhaps without really noticing.

Beach Rats enters on Frankie (Harris Dickinson), an aimless youth on the outer edges of Brooklyn, struggling to escape his bleak home life and navigating questions of self - identity.

Newcomer Harris Dickinson plays Frankie, an aimless youth on the outer edges of Brooklyn, struggling to escape his bleak home life.

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More recently, in Returning, Wakefield confessed that after a decades - long struggle against the bland piety of his youth, he found that he was unable to find peace until he gave up all the artificial props — alcohol, drugs, psychiatry, aimless sex — and returned to what he had been running away from: a connection with God.

Skateboarding is mostly a sport that has come of age through the determination and ingenuity of bored youth, so if the boys seem rather aimless, so should the movie.

Her attention to detail slows down the chapters on Bellamy's aimless, pre-Hansa youth, though these early anecdotes end up illuminating his fascinating later years.

The first and foremost cause of violence among youth is the aimless education which is being imparted to them.