Sentences with phrase «drifter who»

And the drifter who abandoned Lisa was not her father, DNA showed.

Frightened and searching for answers, the people turn to Benjamin Walker, a handsome Native American drifter who has wandered into the area.

Readers around the world love the tale of Zorba, the free spirited drifter who teaches the scholarly Basil to laugh, sing, and to dance on the beach.

8:00 pm / 7:00 pm — TCM — The Postman Always Rings Twice Sizzling adaptation of James M. Cain's classic pulp novel has Lana Turner as the unhappy wife of a middle - of - nowhere gas station owner and John Garfield as the drifter who drops in and plots her husband's demise with her.

He's Callum Lynch, an alienated, violent drifter who discovers that he is descended from a 15th century Spanish assassin named Aguilar de Nerha.

Christopher Abbott is a drifter who takes up residence at the motel, and develops something of a friendship with Bernthal's character.

We don't get to see much more of Hoffman here, but what we do get is a nice long look at Joaquin Phoenix's Freddie, a charismatic young drifter who becomes Hoffman's second in command.

Bryan Singer Indie Work: Singer's first film «Public Access» (about a drifter who causes an uproar in a small town through its local cable station) didn't get a distributor, but it did win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1993, and thus managed to grab Singer some attention.

There's a young drifter who calls himself Woody (Franklin) and hops trains with his guitar («This machine kills fascists,» scrawled on the case), and while he's good at singing the blues and songs supporting the Union, he's told to sing about his own time to make an impact.

Tallulah Comedy drama starring Ellen Page about a young drifter who takes a baby from a negligent mother, with Allison Janney starring as a woman who thinks she's the baby's grandmother.

«Tyhr Trubiak as Mr. Mouse, an unlucky drifter who happens to become the prey of three masked psychopaths.

Brando plays Valentine Xavier, a guitar - toting drifter who unwittingly stirs up trouble after commencing an illicit affair with his boss» wife (played by Anna Magnani).

He seems to be some sort of party drifter who can get Dan into as much trouble as Dan can handle, plus one.

In a Valley of Violence begins like many oaters we've seen in the past and the archetypal characters that therein show all the hallmarks of cowboy picture platitudes; Paul (Ethan Hawke) is a self - effacing drifter who appears more like a peacenik than the dangerous army deserter we suspect him to be; Gilly (James Ransone) is a murderous intimidator; Mary - Anne (Tessa Farmiga) is a virginal ingenue; Marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta) is the conflicted reprobate law man; and so on.

FH is a drifter who meets up with Michelle (Samantha Morton) and the two of them start doing drugs.

The movie stars Ben Stiller as Roger Greenberg, a middle - aged drifter who moves from New York to L.A. to house sit for his brother, and falls for his brother's personal assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig).

Tallulah stars Ellen Page as a young drifter who takes a baby from a negligent mother, with Allison Janney playing a woman who thinks she's the baby's grandmother.

He joins a cast that includes Joaquin Phoenix as «an alcoholic drifter who becomes right - hand man and disciple» to Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Joaquin Phoenix plays a drifter who becomes Hoffman's Number Two, but after a while begins to develop doubts about his new - found mentor and belief system.

The first season follows a drifter who brings trouble to small - town Minnesota in 2006, while Season 2 focuses on a young state police officer and Vietnam veteran in 1979 South Dakota and Minnesota.

Jimmy (Michael Weston) is a young drifter who passes the time telling Judith stories, channeling his feelings of nonentity into fantasy.

As she travels wide - eyed from one city to another, she encounters Dylan, a charismatic young drifter who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness.

Tae - suk (Jae Hee Song) is a young drifter who appears to be homeless by inclination as much as necessity; he squats in the homes of strangers while they're away, carefully seeing to it that no damage is done to the property and sometimes performing small household chores as a display of gratitude.

Among the thousands of visiting spectators are ten of my best friends, first - time Sno * Drifters who traveled from as far away as San Diego and Omaha for an annual pilgrimage to drink beer in the snow; eat chili, Slim Jims, and bland goulash; and play euchre.

Not exact matches

«The Master» stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a disillusioned scientist and writer who decides to create his own religion and help an unstable drifter played by Joaquin Phoenix.

Morris dug into new evidence around the killing and the film uncovered facts proving that Adams was innocent, and that the real killer was actually a teenaged drifter named David Harris who had spent the evening with Adams.

(«Partially human» is the people that resulted when he who shall remain nameless, and the assorted hangers on, drifters, and camp - followers interbred with humans.)

Even then, I know, the shoes won't be consumed in some great final incinerator fire but will eternally appear and reappear in my neighborhood on the tired, shuffling feet of drifters and derelicts, who sample each house's garbage as though it were the best bargain counter in town.

Our guide is Sydney (Philip Baker Hall), a silver - haired, lone - wolf gambler who invites a drifter (John C. Reilly) to share a cup of coffee with him.

The «heavenly,» golden - hued, contented, and idyllic days of the drifters, who have found salvation on the wheat farm, are shattered with the discovered revelation of the real nature of the relationship between the brother and sister, and an accompanying plague of locusts and fire (typical of Old Testament judgments).

Holding tight to her waning sexual allure, Janey's mother, Kate, has eyes for a drifter photographer who becomes the latest battleground in the quiet war between mother and daughter.

Set during a Labor Day weekend in the 1980s, the drama follows a single mom (Kate Winslet) and her 13 - year - old son as they give a ride to a wounded drifter (Josh Brolin) who turns out to be an escaped convict.

Along the way they pick up thief - drifter, J.D. (Brad Pitt), who steals their money and takes off.

There are Nashville residents, civic leaders, populist politicians and their frontmen, singing stars and managers, wannabes, reporters, fans, and other drifters, hangers - on, and misfits, who move through various locales including the Grand Ole Opry itself, the airport, the freeway, recording studios, parking lots, motel and hospital rooms, private homes, and nightclubs.

A dark, disturbing, and almost overbearingly bleak look at a drifter in England who crashes at his ex-girlfriend's flat to escape those that will be after him after he commits a heinous act.

They include her overprotective husband (Allan Garfield), a young soldier who stands guard over her hospital room, and a drifter whose presence doesn't become clear until the final act.

In the film, a mysterious drifter named Paul (Ethan Hawke, Sinister, The Purge) and his dog Abbie (who steals the show in every single one of her scenes) make their way towards Mexico through the barren desert of the old west.

Per Deadline the story, «follows Paul (Hawke), a drifter with nothing to lose who seeks revenge on the thugs who killed his best friend.

The feature stars Ethan Hawke as a drifter named Paul, who along with his dog make their way toward Mexico.

The Western, also written by The Sacrament helmer West, tracks a drifter (Hawke) seeking revenge on the thugs who killed his best friend.

Playing out against the casinos and hotel rooms of Reno, Nevada, it's a noir - flavored character study that stars Philip Baker Hall as Sydney, an aging gambler who takes a down - on - his - luck drifter named John (John C. Reilly) under his wing.

The film follows a drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as he comes into the orbit of the magnetic title character Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Dodd's wife (Amy Adams), who have organzied a coterie of followers around Dodd's philosophical approach to life.

Somewhere Slow (Unrated) Road flick about a fugitive from justice (Jessalyn Gilsig) who is befriended by a teen drifter (Graham Patrick Martin) she meets while on the run after a botched convenience store robbery.

Those who are interested in grisly crime mysteries will already recognize the subject of Ellroy's book as the infamous «Black Dahlia» murder, where a young female drifter named Elizabeth Short (Kirshner, According to Spencer) was murdered, her torso cut in half, and her body drained of blood.

Synopsis: Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone... and anything.

First things first: The way they say it in the movie is yaw - ku - zah and, as a headnote explains, the Yakuza were roughly parallel to the western's good badmen — gamblers, con men, drifters with short swords and no samurai code of bushido to sustain them, sometime Robin Hood figures who stood between the defenseless and the marauders who would prey upon them.

After the cannibals are lead to the ironically named Hope, in pursuit of a drifter (David Arquette) who has witnessed the extent of their mercy, they take not only him but also Samantha O'Dwyer (Lili Simmons).

Watching Rust and Bone, which Sony Pictures Classics acquired preemptively before its first Cannes screening, it's easy to imagine all of the ways in which Hollywood might have fouled up this story of a killer - whale trainer (Marion Cotillard) who loses both her legs in a freak accident and, during her recovery, enters into a tentative romance with a stoic drifter (Matthias Schoenaerts) who moonlights as an amateur MMA fighter.

Official Premise: A striking portrait of drifters and seekers in post-World War II America, Paul Thomas Anderson's THE MASTER unfolds the journey of a naval veteran (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future — until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader (Philip Seymour Hoffman).

John Huston directed his own father, Walter Huston, to an Oscar for his performance as a grizzled prospector who teams with two American drifters and strikes it rich in the mountain wilderness.