Sentences with phrase «by younger cast»

Even if you recognize some of the original prose, they are poorly presented, especially by younger cast members who seem to be reciting them a line at a time.

With incredible performances by a young cast, this riveting moral tale touches on the issues of race, class, friendship and our connections to our past.

It's Got: Wonderful performances by a young cast, no punches pulled, a truly terrifying romance between a girl called Smell and a boy a couple of years her junior

GOAT is not a subtle film, though the performances by its young cast are wonderfully nuanced.

A wildly funny, stupefyingly silly Spaghetti Western spoof, A Fistful of Fingers is a jaw - dropping gag - a-minute mashup of Sergio Leone, Monty Python and the Zucker Brothers, hilariously fueled by its young cast & crew's can't miss enthusiasm and teen spirit attitude.

The conversations and issues coming from the script penned by Mohan, Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich are all too familiar for anyone who's had a significant other, and the natural and authentic performances by this young cast make it that much more accessible and emotional.

Aside from brief appearances by 12 - year - old Luke's parents, played by the hilarious ad - libbing Virgina Madsen and Patrick Warburton, most of the run time is carried by its young cast.

The new trilogy is led by a young cast including John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver and Domhnall Gleeson.

Denzel's acting is as top notch as you'd expect, and the very good turns by the young cast offer up modest surprises, but the script by Robert Eisele (writer of such crap as Darkman II and The Birds II: Lands End) tries to give us emotional content to try to win us over when it should have been earnestly trying more to appeal to our intellect to understand just why all of what we're seeing is of great significance.

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And Paul does address the issues of driving out demons through the examples of his ministry (he was once imprisoned for casting a devil out of a young girl) and by preaching truth where these spirits have planted deception.

Consumers had been primed to respond favorably to the sketch by a couple of decades» worth of advertising of a variety of products, including food, clothing, furniture, and health elixirs, featuring children and infants cast with wondrous and innocent expressions.95 The Gerber Baby's large eyes and dilated pupils, round symmetrical head, button nose, and tiny bow - like mouth typifies the «cuteness» and perceived vulnerability that evolutionary biologists surmise increases the likelihood of parents» protecting their young.96

The cast is superb: Malkovich as the analyst Cox shows a true flair for comedy, Clooney is on top form here as the sleaze whose life intersects with Litzke almost by accident and Brad Pitt, playing a much younger man than his true age, is brilliantly idiotic and brainless.

I am heartened by that, because young people have for so long been cast adrift, and this will help to bring them into employment and training in a sustainable way, and also in a way that will perhaps enable them to garner the knowledge to create their own businesses one day and employ others, which is what we have seen over many years.

To encourage young researchers, CAST gives an award every other year for talented young scientists, and five years ago, started an annual award for young women scientists, funded by L'Oréal (China) as an extension of the L'Oréal - UNESCO Women in Science Partnership.

A new study led by University of California, Riverside astronomers casts light on how young, hot stars ionize oxygen in the early universe and the effects on the evolution of galaxies through time.

The young actors have chemistry together and you have to appreciate how the filmmakers had the good sense of also casting such comic geniuses as Eugene Levy as Jim's dad and Jennifer Coolidge as Stifler's mom, and now the conclusion of the epic trilogy takes the Chris - Guest - company thing one step further by giving the part of Michele's dad to Fred Willard!

The supporting cast of Action in the North Atlantic includes a young newcomer by the name of Bernard Zanville, whose billing was changed to «Dane Clark» upon the film's release.

A young cast takes over, led by Eddie Redmayne as Marius, a smart young soldier who falls for Cosette's beauty, despite the smitten torch carried for his affection from Eponine (Samantha Barks).

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

The script (by Matthew Perniciaro and Timm Sharp) is trite, and the direction so flat that every scene looks like it was shot in a broom closet, but the bright young cast makes things more bearable than they should be.

Advised by an agent to take their daughter to Los Angeles, it wasn't long before young Fanning was cast in a commercial for Tide detergent.

The director finds himself stymied by weak source material — Jean - Luc Lagarce's 1990 play about a young man who returns home to tell his family he's dying — and only intermittently well served by his starry French cast.

20 years after the highly - publicized and unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey, a casting call for young actresses to play the late child beauty pageant queen serves as the basis of this documentary by Kitty Green.

Aided by a lively young cast (headed by ex-Harry Potter star Emma Watson), the writer - director creates a film that entertains as much as it appalls.

Cast is game and the pace brisk, only marred by lame comedy situations in a few places, like a tortoise crawling over Young's foot and Aherne trying to make roast beef.

Charlie, previously known for his portrayal of Sienna Miller's younger brother in Casanova, was cast by director Matthew Vaughn as the impetuous Tristran in the big - screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 1999 fantasy novel.

Black Film reports Paula Patton has been cast as a «villain» in the Stephanie Meyer - produced adaptation of Daniel O'Malley's novel about a young amnesiac woman being hunted by supernatural forces at Starz.

Cast: Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Francis De Wolff, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Eric Pohlmann (voice) Cameo: Desmond Llewelyn Director: Terence Young Screenplay: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood (adapted from the novel by Ian Fleming) Review published April 13, 2009

Ramsey has been cast as «a young beautiful widow and love interest to the role played by Wilson.»

Strong performances by many cast members and some heartfelt scenes (as when Bethany gets her first real look at the stump of her arm) help create genuine emotion in this story and a deeper appreciation for the impressive attitude of this young surfer.

The abundant tropes remind the viewer of those featured in vehicles favored by the likes of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, men's men who made movies for men that weren't even likely to interest boys with a taste for action, as the work of the next generation of action stars (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Norris» other slightly younger Expendables cast mates) would.

Let's start with Hailee Steinfeld, who has been by far the busiest of the young cast, having signed on to not one but two new projects in the last couple of weeks.

By going with an actress four years older than the character in the book, Lionsgate has locked itself into a cast packed with very late teens or actors in their early twenties as compared to if they'd gone with someone like 14 - year - old Chloe Moretz who would have called for a far younger Peeta and Gale.

Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) does a good job directing a gifted cast of talents young and old, and moody cinematography by Greig Fraser gives the film a stylish visual signature, but it's in the script by William Monahan where the film comes up short.

Midnight Special comes from the director of Mud which had some great performances by a cast that starred an Academy Award winner and some of Hollywood's rising young talent and this is pretty much the same concept.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

Covert Affairs is a standard spy show with a flirty twist provided by Perabo and other young cast members like Christopher Gorham.

The rest of the cast does mostly fine work with Ewan McGregor a relatively weak point and Abigail Breslin, younger than nearly everyone in the cast by about twenty years (or much more in many cases), simply unable to hold her own against such towering thespians.

The director made the bold decision to cast, as themselves, the three young American friends who wrestled the suspected terrorist to the floor, but audiences do not appear to have been very intrigued by that novel prospect — in the UK at least.

The young female cast of supporting actors — led by Gordon and including Gillian Jacobs, Adria Arjona, Jessie Ennis and Debby Ryan — is up to the task of playing opposite McCarthy.

Suck's wisecracking cast that includes aging rockers Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, and Malcolm McDowell as a vampire hunter should connect with young audiences in the US and the UK (where it has been picked up by Universal Pictures International in a deal that also includes France and Australia / NZ).

Iwai's ambitious drama is strikingly shot and poignantly acted by a splendid young cast.

The second season of the Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why, based on the young adult novel by Jay Asher about the investigation into a teen suicide, is now streaming along with the documentary 13 Reasons Why: Beyond the Reasons featuring the cast and crew discussing issues brought up in the series.

(One clever bit of casting that shows up here is Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus; Jacobi is an excellent actor above all, but it also provides an allusion to the classic I, Claudius in which Jacobi played Emperor Claudius — underscored by the fact that Commodus tells young Lucius a story about Claudius in one scene in Gladiator.)

In the hands of an even - keeled cast, including a stunning performance by young Sennia Nanua, Gifts offers plenty for the players and viewers to chew on.

It has a really game cast with grown ups played by men who are former young hotshots aging into respected veterans, and teens played by young women who were on a roll at the time but never got their proper due.

The story is Eilis's and the film is Ronan's, but the young actress is supported by a first - rate cast.

The movie, directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke, is slated to hit theaters April 5, 2019 — and it features a predominantly young cast that rivals Peter Parker and his Spidey crew.

Considering this is the first film project Tom Hanks has written and directed, he takes an incredible risk by casting a virtually nameless group of young people — yet that's exactly what makes this film so believable.

Creating yet another world in which the handsome young jocks are always being pushed around by those law - loving nerds, just because they happen to also be vicious, amoral serial killers, THR is reporting that Jim Parsons has been cast as the prosecutor trying to put Zac Efron's Ted Bundy behind bars in the upcoming...