Sentences with phrase «by child actors»

Looking Pretty for God (After G.W.)(2008) focuses on an undertaker explaining how make - up can be used to make a dead body appear more alive, with his testimony sometimes voiced by child actors: «When people say she looks like she's sleeping, that's the best compliment you can get.»

They're voiced by child actors whose buoyant personalities break through the painted glass and cels and warm our hearts to the point of melting.

Good performances by child actors and adults also round out this tale of Loch Ness's most famous resident.

These great children's movies are often let down by the child actors asked to carry them.

The film's pleasures are simple — soaring landscapes, old - school DIY adventure and some sweet performances by the child actors.

Banderas» charming, often comic performance, a cute one by child actor Adrian Alonso as Zorro's son and pint - sized counterpart, an amusing one by Rufus Sewell, who plays his villainous role as a Hispanic Christopher Walken, some imaginative PG - rated methods of disposing of the bad guys and a number of rather audacious parallels to contemporary politics and warfare place this clearly in the «guilty pleasure» category; like the original, it's notably longer than it has any right to be (perhaps Steven Spielberg executive producing both of them is a factor?)

serio comedies, dealing with the adjustment problems of a recent widower (Glenn Ford) and his young son (played by child actor - future director Ron Howard).

Interestingly, it's quite a similar situation in that part of the film his character is played by a child actor before Patel takes over.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Voiced in the American version by child actor Mackenzie Foy and the perpetually gruff Forest Whitaker («Lee Daniels» The Butler»), Celestine and Ernest form a friendship based on their mutual outsider status.

Casting Haley Joel Osment in what might be one of the best child performances of all time, proved to pay off as he was the youngest actor to ever be nominated for an Academy Award, and it's not only a great performance by a child actor, but by any actor in general.

Not exact matches

Blickle and colleagues determined the EQ of 142 working adults both by asking them to determine the emotion displayed in a series of photographs of actors and children, but also by asking their colleagues to rate their emotional savvy.

Internet - connected toys may be cute and cuddly, but they can also be hijacked by malicious actors to spy on children and their parents.

Actor Patrick Warburton, the voice of the Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes «Discover Fresh» advertising campaign, introduced Garden Fresh to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital by sharing his personal commitment to St. Jude's mission.

Now, puberty does cruel things to a child — most of us would be best served by serving in camera - free prison camps between the ages of 10 and 14 — and Lino Facioli (the actor playing Robin) is hardly the only hormonal disaster on the show (see also: Stark, Bran), but at least his wiener teen face serves his dainty, dim - witted character.

Kids With Cameras follows the progress, challenges and triumphs of a group of children with autism and Aspergers syndrome participating in a film camp hosted by non-profit Actors for Autism, and taught by award - winning educator Brad Koepenick.

We were too happy to hear that they will also make history this week by casting TVs first transgender child actor to appear on the show.

Celebrity Baby Blog, May 5, 2008 CBB Exclusive: John Fortson and Christie Lynn Smith give update on daughter and use of Happy Heinys by Angela «Actors John Fortson and Christie Lynn Smith recently shared with CBB that they had welcomed their first child, daughter Abby Ryder, 7 weeks ago, and now they are giving us a little insight into their lives with her, and also discussed how happy they are with a certain diapering product...»

Well - known Henrys: Prince Henry («Harry») of Wales; Henry Huggins (character in children's books by Beverly Cleary); actor Henry Winkler («The Fonz»).

Jensen Ackles — $ 50,000 The Texas - based Supernatural actor (above, centre) sent his «thoughts and prayers to everyone getting hit by hurricane Harvey... Including my wife and children».

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When actor Peter Falk became ill, his adult children said they were blocked from visiting him in the hospital by his spouse.

Overall, 67 percent of children favored the recipient of positive nonverbal signals over the other woman — suggesting they were influenced by the bias shown by the actor.

His wife (Julie Christie) is a burned out actress who had a child by another actor while married to Nick, of course one day during an arrugment she brings up the fact that the child who is now 15 is not his, major mistake child hears runs away and so is the story line of our film.

A douchebag alpha dad played by the shredded and square - jawed Belgian actor Kevin Janssens, Richard just wants to spend a quiet weekend in the desert with his teenage mistress, far away from his unseen wife and their pesky children.

Because we need more of a story than Hugh being a bad boy, Charlie, for reasons of financial convenience, gets stuck with Max, who is played by Dakota Goyo without that annoying smugness of child actors, the sort that says, «Hey, I'm only 10, but I'm already more successful than you!»

David and his brother Ricky both «appeared» on their parent's radio sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, albeit portrayed by professional child actors.

Those who flout the established taboos often face such harsh consequences as losing their jobs, their homes or custody of their children, so the Hasidic actors who appeared in the film courted peril and banishment simply by taking part.

Bolstered by a very good cast, with solid performers extending from the leads right down to the child actors.

Described as a Hollywood Neo-noir, the movie follows Gregg as Howard Holloway, a onetime - child - actor - turned - Hollywood - agent, who allies himself with a talented rising star, Lydia (played by Saxon Sharbino).

The film centers on the childhood of Mason played by the relatively unknown Ellar Coltrane (Hallettsville, 2009) who began filming this movie as a child TV commercial actor after he and his family agreed to this unorthodox filming schedule.

Australian actor Hugh Jackman is reportedly planning to add another member to his family by adopting another child.

One thing that is either in the Bard's text, and I have somehow missed it in the past, or it is freshly integrated by Kurzel and his screenwriters (one of latter is High Fidelity actor, Love Liza director Todd Louiso), is that of coldhearted ambitions being driven by the loss of children, or the lack - there - of.

Home Alone is the movie that skyrocketed child actor Macaulay Culkin to fame, with a big help from a fun script by John Hughes and kid - friendly director Chris Columbus.

Another perfect scenario is when Rex tells Jeannette (who I should mention is incredibly well acted by a couple different child actors, and very sympathetic, although that's not very difficult to accomplish with this band of sociopaths) that he can and would do anything for her, so she asks him to quit drinking as when he hits the alcohol pretty hard (which is literally every day) he can not take care of them.

Deathdream belies its low budget with both an impressive cast headed by veteran character actors and director Bob Clark's creative economy, which he had displayed two years earlier in his jokey - gory horror debut Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972), which Ormsby co-wrote and starred in.

In this juxtaposition, a young girl named Moonee (Brooklynn Prince in one of several terrific performances by unknown actors) creates her own happiness in the shadow of the Happiest Place on Earth, and gets into trouble, as she's raised by a single mother (Bria Vinaite) who in many ways is a child herself.

That's certainly not the fault of the two young actors playing Jeannette as a child, because the main reason the movie work is the groundwork laid by Chandler Head and Ella Anderson in the film's flashbacks, which depict a wonderful relationship between father and daughter that's simply heartbreaking to watch deteriorate.

Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell - bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar.

So does Rick Groen's 2.5 - star Toronto Globe and Mail, represented by the quote: «It's the child actors, heroic indeed, who rescue «Super 8» from the blockbuster grip of its adult makers.»

Nothing could be more uncomfortable than «friendly» soldiers played by actors you already love, attempting to soothe traumatized children whose parents they've just killed.

Actors Chris Pratt and Chris Evans stunned patients at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington on Saturday (07Mar15) by turning up for a surprise...

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 2017: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project 2016: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight 2015: Michael Shannon, 99 Homes 2014: Edward Norton, Birdman 2013: James Franco, Spring Breakers 2012: Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln 2011: Albert Brooks, Drive 2010: John Hawkes, Winter's Bone 2009: Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles 2008: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight 2007: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2006: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children 2005: Kevin Costner, The Upside of Anger 2004: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways 2003: Peter Sarsgaard, Shattered Glass 2002: Chris Cooper, Adaptation

It's raw, it's messy, and it's surprisingly authentic for being performed largely by children plus a mix of established and unknown adult actors.

David Bradley's Billy is on a very small list of onscreen portraits of children that succeeds effortlessly by letting the actor play a child instead of a miniature adult.

Sackhoff in particular impresses, playing a loving mother who increasingly shows the strain as the mirror begins to insinuate itself among her deepest insecurities and turns her against her children, rendered believably wide - eyed and shit - scared by young actors Garret Ryan and Annalise Basso.

He plays struggling actor and divorced dad Daniel who tries to stay in his kids» lives by dressing up as an (unconvincing and slightly creepy) older woman and getting hired by his ex-wife (Sally Field) to be the children's nanny.

Piling on the offenses, Showtime suffers from a few distracting plotholes, an obviously tacked - on prologue meant to elicit a Kindergarten Cop-esque brand of «isn't it funny to scare children with a terrifying actor,» and a score by Alan Silvestri that actually approximates the feel of hammers to the brainpan.

Two of TV's most beloved child actors, Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family) and Barry Williams (The Brady Bunch) unite, assisted by Sherilyn Fenn (Rude Awakening, Boston Public), to make it through Bigfoot's startling appearance at a music festival in North Dakota in Bigfoot.

These extraordinary people include some of the best child «performers» I've seen since the films of Truffaut, as well as a wondrous, comical Sign teacher whose everyday utterances automatically place him in the pantheon of character actors occupied by such figures as Walter Brennan, Michel Simon, and William Demarest.

Oz is constantly mugging, falling down, running into things, and making funny faces, which leads me to believe that Oz might be afflicted by some toxic stew of epilepsy, Tourette's Syndrome, and limited comic actor's disease — the last of which the sort of thing that otherwise dull or homely children contract to get attention in class.