Sentences with phrase «child actors playing»

Sadly, my vow to never sit through another Farrelly Brothers yak - track remains unbroken, as it takes all of three minutes for their conversation to devolve into arcane trainspotting here: that's when they start furnishing the child actors playing Fallon's students with gratuitous biographies.

Some solid acting from the two child actors playing terrified emotions throughout.

And it has to be said that the child actors playing the kids, Megan (Scarlett Estevez) and Dylan (Owen Vaccaro) actually give real comic performances.

Not exact matches

Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.

A Twitter thread blew up yesterday when user Ed Solomon posted a story about Mark Hamill, the actor who plays Luke Skywalker, appearing in character to grant the wish of a friend's terminally ill child.

For two decades, the critically acclaimed actor has sought roles that challenge big ideas and present complicated characters like 12 Years a Slave (for which he was nominated for a best actor Oscar), Mary Magdalene (he plays Peter), Children of Men, Amistad and dozens of others.

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.

This year we're inviting celebrity dads, including TV presenter Tim Lovejoy and Coronation Street actor Charlie Condou, to read stories in «Celebrity Story Time», a year - round add - on to FSW, giving teachers and other practitioners useful material to download and play to children and their fathers at their «Fathers» Story Time» events.

Middendorf plays her good girl character with aplomb while Hughes doesn't bug me nearly as much as other child actors.

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.

Braff plays an unemployed LA actor with a wife (Kate Hudson) and two children who is lucky if he can get a gig playing Guy with Dandruff in a commercial.

Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

Actor Peter Haskell has from time to time showed up in theatrical films (he was in two of the three Child's Play flicks), but the lion's share of his work has been on television.

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!»

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?)

The kid who plays young Nigel is excellent (this coming from me - I normally find child actors cloying and can't wait for the older cast to take over, so that's how good this kid is).

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).

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

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.

Cyrus Arnold plays Derek Zoolander Jr. and I must admit to being concerned with the addition of a child actor but he holds his own and is often the hilarious voice of reason in this twisted world of fashion.

plays Derek Zoolander Jr. and I must admit to being concerned with the addition of a child actor but he holds his own and is often the hilarious voice of reason in this twisted world of fashion.

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.

Braff plays Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor whose wife Sarah (Kate Hudson) is the sole breadwinner of the family, supporting him and their two children (Joey King and Pierce Gagnon) with her drab, government job while he's off pursuing his dream.

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.

To his credit, the film's lucky young star Cameron Bright, who played a similar role in Godsend, is able to keep pace with the more experienced actors, although the deadpan delivery to try to make him believable as an adult in a child's body tends to drag the scenes down.

Child actor Jeremy Foley made his first screen appearance playing Graham Wando opposite Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton (who played his mother) in the disaster thriller Dante's Peak (1997).

Even playing off inexperienced, not entirely at ease child actors, Ruffalo gives Cam realism, depth, and personality.

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.

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.

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.

Hanks pulls off some of his best acting, making you honestly forget that he's an actor playing a man - child.

Plus, what he learned from test screenings, the challenge of casting a child actor, and getting Joaquin Phoenix to play Jesus in «Mary Magdalene».

British actress Rhian Rees (Confession of a Child of the Century, Rehearsal, The Lears) recently joined the cast as Dana, Toby Huss (Ghostbusters, Martyrs, Bad Milo) has been cast as Ray, Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer (Forget About Nick, Trendy, The Ottoman Lieutenant) will play Sartain, Diva Tyler (Killing Winston Jones, Slice 3, The Last Exorcism Part II) is playing a caretaker.

While Butler is a bit stodgy in the routinely redeemable role, child actor Lord plays his part well.

The 28 - year - old actor, best known for playing Jon Snow in the bloodthirsty fantasy drama, will join James McAvoy, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston to star in a charity theatre production of The Children's Monologues.

Roddam seems to have absorbed the contemporaneous styles of Alan Clarke and Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, and folded in the poeticized reality of Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills, where adult actors play a group of unconsciously sadistic children.

It also doesn't help that Jaeden Lieberher, who plays the magic tot, fails to convince as anything other than a cute child actor.

Joey appears as a character in Buckley's novel, but Reitman has made Naylor's warm relationship with his son (played by ubiquitous child actor Cameron Bright) the emotional center of the movie.

Miles Teller («The Spectacular Now») Not many people saw John Cameron Mitchell's undervalued «Rabbit Hole» a few years ago, but those who did recognized a potential star in Miles Teller, the then -23-year-old actor who played Jason, the guilt - ridden teenager who hit and killed the 4 - year - old child of Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) in a car accident.

Newcomer Levi, who plays Peter, ranks right there with director Joe Wright's previous discovery of Saoirse Ronan, as child actors with big time screen presence.

In American Pastoral the actor plays Seymour «Swede» Levov, a former high school star athlete, whose child becomes an urban terrorist in the 1960s.

British actress Rhian Rees (Confession of a Child of the Century, Rehearsal, The Lears) recently joined the cast as Dana, Toby Huss (Ghostbusters, Martyrs, Bad Milo) has been cast as Ray, Turkish actor Haluk Bilginer (Forget About Nick, Trendy, The Ottoman Lieutenant) will play Sartain.

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.

It features four «Bridesmaids» actors playing married couples with children: Kristen Wiig and Jon Hamm are Missy and Ben, whose once - hot sex life is now cooling, while Maya Rudolph and Chris O'Dowd are the bickering Leslie and Alex. Writer - director Jennifer Westfeldt (the 2001 indie hit «Kissing Jessica Stein») casts herself as Julie, and Adam Scott (NBC's «Parks and Recreation») as Jason, two lifelong buddies who decide to platonically make a child and skip the whole strained - relationship thing.

The Plummer children are played by young actors unknown to most viewers (Brittany Snow, star of the recently cancelled «American Dreams» might be the exception); they perform capably in their roles from cutesy tots to angst - ridden teens though none particularly stand out.

Look to accomplished actors such as Morgan Freeman (who plays Speaker of the House / Acting President Allan Trumbell), Angela Bassett (Banning's higher - up, the Secret Service Director), and Melissa Leo (Secretary of Defense) for some very basic reaction shots in response to lines uttered by others that seemed to have been lifted from a child's storybook.

** NOTE: If you don't recognize Jerry O'Connell's name, you might remember him as a child actor... he played Vern in Stand By Me (1986)