Sentences with phrase «film about a boys»

Mike Mills film about a boy coming of age around three pivotal women in his life.

The book was adapted for the big screen by award - winning British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, who wrote both the book and screenplay for 2002 film About a Boy.

As he expressed to us, he needed to make a film about this boy while he still was a boy.

But this is a highly entertaining film about a boys love for his brother and his robot.

Joe Wright will direct the epic live - action film about the boy who would never grow up, created by J.M. Barrie.

It's a Japanese animation film about a boy in beautifully animated Tokyo, who travels down a back alley into a dark corridor and slips out of the human world and into the bakemono realm (Jūtengai), land of the beasts.

Not exact matches

In addition to appearing «in a major music video that's gonna come out pretty soon,» Lee will also act in Shadows Will Fall, an Indiegogo - funded film about a young boy living with cystic fibrosis.

His increased fame is partially due to his role in «Call Me By Your Name,» a film about a romance between a 24 - year - old man and a 17 - year - old boy.

I had the privilege of watching the film while seated behind a family that included four boys, who ranged from about six to 14 years in age.

Written and directed by John Carney, the film is about a boy named Conor who tries to impress a girl by starting a band.

But beyond a look at how church officials covered up the abuse of dozens of young boys by priests, the film is about dedication to the reporting process itself.

Each film depicted the cold detachment of the U.S. military, the government's disregard for its young working and middle class boys, and the unraveling of American ideologies about home and country.

The sweet woman giving us our tickets was a bit taken back when she saw how young our boys were and wondered why they were about to see this film and not a kid's movie.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, MBA, talks about her film «The Mask You Live In» and the boy crisis in America

A week later, when volunteers were quizzed about the film's content, the males with the beta blocker had trouble remembering the gist of what they saw — the boy being run over by a car.

In a recent interview with InStyle, Union — who is a stepmom to three boys from her husband, Dwayne Wade — opened up about a negative comment she received on the trailer for her new film Breaking In, in which she plays a mother.»

About me: MY PHOTOGRAPHY i have been into photography since i was a small boy i remember running around with my little camera taking picks with a 110 roll of film that is almost obsolete lol i remember begging my mom in 5th grade for a polariod camera did nt get till the end of

OPW — Aug 11 — Andrew Conru, the founder and former CEO of FriendFinder, is one the poster boys for a new film called «Shine» about the pain and personal toll of being an entrepreneur.

A couple of lines of dialogue that stood out / stayed with / haunted me, followed by a short list of other impressive things about the film: Mara, reflecting Who's that boy with the girl with the dragon tattoo?

and it is also a film about being a Man and growing up a boy.

The film is a religious avant - garde film trapped inside a narrative story line about a boy who learns the reality of life and faith.

The films have all been about Harry growing in stature and skill as a boy wizard, but the finale is about something much more interesting: the willful forfeiture of power.

Submarine is a Welsh film that director Richard Ayoade adapted a screenplay based off the novel by the same name, about an awkward teenage boy and his first real relationship with a girlfriend.

Tom Hooper made his first film, a short about a runaway dog, at age 13; a short he made the next year (about a boy who learns that his grandfather had died in WWII) was the runner - up in a BBC young - filmmakers competition.

A historical film about the Seneca culture featuring the Tonawanda Indian Reservation, Bury My Heart with Tonawanda tells the story of a developmentally disabled boy with Downs Syndrome who is rejected by his own family but is accepted and nurtured by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

Owned by Starz Media, Anchor Bay released a fairly dismal slate of films in 2011, with only drama Beautiful Boy (sort of an inferior, tamer version of We Need to Talk About Kevin) scoring favorable reviews from critics — and just barely.

Greg Berlanti's charmingly heartfelt film is a remarkably successful attempt to give shape to the experience of the closet by drawing an incredibly intimate portrait of a teenage boy about to leave it behind.

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On The Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town.

If there is anything I didn't like about the film, it's Cameron's lack of realism when dealing with the roles of children, especially Jonathan Lipnicki's (Stuart Little, The Little Vampire) character as the boy that Maguire forms a bond with, as he's too unrealistic in demeanor and too strange looking to buy as a real kid, and for that matter the same goes for Tyson Tidwell's (Suarez, The Ladykillers) demeanor (son of Rod) as well.

Skateboarding aficionados will no doubt find the most to like here, as well as those who enjoy slice of life films about the 1970s, but everyone else is perhaps better off sticking strictly to the aforementioned Dogtown and Z - Boys to understand just what makes Peralta's story worthwhile.

Both American Pie and About A Boy were great (albeit very different) films.

Perhaps if the film had concentrated more on introspective elements, such as Rashad and his internal difficulties in growing from a boy into a man, instead of constantly distracting us with side stories — Esquire's quest for the path to success, New New's fence - sitting between the ghetto and the mansion, Ant's seduction into materialism, and the roller skating competition that never really materializes — it would have been a more compelling movie about Atlanta's lower class areas, and the ups and downs of life there.

From Japanese anime filmmaker Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, «Devilman: Crybaby»), this «joyously hallucinogenic» film is about a lonely, awkward musician boy in a small Japanese town on the water.

Sure, director Paul Weitz is responsible for some excellent films like About a Boy and In Good Company, but with Little Fockers so fresh in my mind, it's tough to remember what he's really capable of.

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

Gareth Edwards, who directed Godzilla, will direct the film, with the script coming from Chris Weitz, who wrote the screenplay for About A Boy.

Thematically, «The Stanford Prison Experiment» clearly has a lot to present about not just male aggression but what being imprisoned does to people (Nelsan Ellis is phenomenal as an ex-con who tells Zimbardo that they need to «teach these boys of privilege what a prison is»), but writer Tim Talbott hits a few too many of the film's themes repeatedly, just to make sure you get them.

After writing and directing indies such as Gummo, Julien Donkey - boy, Ken Park and Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers was one of last year's most talked about films, with his work in that film expected to help him lure in even more A-list talent for this revenge film.

This is a film that separates the men from the boys: La última película began with an audience of about 80, and by the time the credits rolled, just 88 minutes later, only 39 remained.

Writer - director Peter Hedges («About a Boy» scribe) carved out the darkly humorous film based on his own mother's death.

From the beginning, Roger was inspired to see Coppola's films with a unique perspective — to focus on the young boys on the fringes of the story, and to talk about the idea of adolescence.

I love the narrative structure of the film, telling two different stories about the parents of a boy who is supposedly killed - in - action, and the story of the boy on assignment at a remote military outpost (where nothing happens all day).

The World War II - set film is a satirical dramedy about a young nationalistic German boy who creates an imaginary Adolf Hitler to befriend.

He ends up being the boys» murder consultant, and even though he has only a few scenes Foxx just about steals the film.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

This is a smart, warm, relatively innocent and surprisingly funny film about how boys become older boys on their way to eventually becoming men.

The star of such films as Bridget Jones's Diary, About a Boy, Notting Hill, and Four Weddings and a Funeral and Eberstein, a 39 - year - old Swedish TV producer, are parents to three children born since 2012.

When I was thinking more about the film, Nicholas Hoult as always played great, sensitive characters from About a Boy to Mad Max: Fury about the film, Nicholas Hoult as always played great, sensitive characters from About a Boy to Mad Max: Fury About a Boy to Mad Max: Fury Road.

The story is all there but the energy is missing, a strange thing to say about a film that is packed with the antics of the bad boy bands of the 70s.