Sentences with phrase «film about a young boy»

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.

«Lamb,» director Yared Zeleke's debut feature film about a young boy named Ephraïm, who must live with faraway family...

The acting and James Horner's (Sneakers, Patriot Games) score are about the only things thought were above average in this passable but clichéd film about a young boy overcoming the odds.

For his next feature, Reitman is directing Kate Winslet, Tobey Maguire, and Josh Brolin in a film about a young boy and his agoraphobic mother whose lives are turned upside down when an ex-con enters the picture.

He'll direct the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, and he's the writer of Disney's next princess tale, Moana, but before we see any of that, he has this New Zealand - made film about a young boy and his uncle who disappear into the bush and cause a national manhunt.

Tom Hanks (Hero Boy, Father, Conductor, Hobo, Scrooge, and Santa Claus in «The Polar Express») Robert Zemeckis» 2004 film about a young boy's journey to the North Pole was created entirely through motion capture computer animation, a groundbreaking process at the time.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Over the course of their 40 - minute interview, Banks and Dano — who star as Melinda Ledbetter and the young Beach Boys leading man, Brian Wilson, respectively — chatted about the film, their eclectic careers, and their advice to actors.

Also in the prestige category of films we haven't seen yet but have Oscar bait written all over them: Boy Erased, the drama about a young Christian man who goes through gay conversion therapy.

The weaknesses of his latest offering shouldn't surprise anyone that knows about his track record; his last two films released this decade were Garfield, the feeble - minded version of the long - running comic strip, and Thunderpants, about a young boy with astounding abilities to produce flatulence.

I'm a big fan of The Beatles and was interested in learning more about their formation and early days, and while Nowhere Boy isn't as much about the band as it is Lennon's younger years, it's still an incredibly well - directed film that most Beatles fans will enjoy.

Burton gets back to being weird with his next film, titled Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, adapted from a series of young adult books about «bizarre tales and photos of levitating girls and invisible boys.»

British director Haigh, whose last film 45 Years was voted the Guardian's film of the year in 2015, receives a competition berth for Lean on Pete, an adaptation of Willy Vlautin's novel about the relationship between a young boy and a failed racehorse.

Only The Young begins as a movie about the friendship between two boys, but Elmore quickly comes to dominate a film that approaches the uncertainty and heightened emotions of youth with unexpected delicacy and compassion.

Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon and an ensemble of young Sudanese actors — all of whom have direct personal ties to the war in their country — bring the inspiring and uplifting story of The Lost Boys of the Sudan to the screen in a film about heartbreak and hope, survival and triumph.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Azur & Asmar (Unrated) Animated fairytale about a couple of boys raised like brothers in a castle, one, a motherless, young aristocrat (Cyril Mourali), the other, the son (Karim M'Ruba) of the family nanny (Hiam Abbass), who grow up to find themselves rivals in a race to find a princess (Thissa d'Avila Bensalah) in a magical, faraway fantasyland.

Based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 children's book of the same name, Jumanji, the film, fleshes out the short book to include a story about Alan Parrish (Hann - Byrd, Little Man Tate), who, as a young boy struggling with isolation and abandonment in 1969, winds up finding a strange board game.

Washington, D.C. — In a historic year for African - Americans in films, in front of and behind the camera, the year's biggest winner at the 17th Annual Black Reel Awards was the small and intimate coming - of - age story of a young boy growing up in a tumultuous, yet nurturing community environment, searching for answers about his sexual identity in Barry Jenkins» cinematic masterwork, Moonlight.

The film is about an orphaned dinosaur who befriends a young human boy, and reportedly features relatively little dialogue as the two communicate through action and expression rather than words.

This is an absolutely gorgeous film about a young girl who moves to a new neighbourhood outside Paris and when taken for a boy decides not to correct the mistake.

Coco is a film set around the Mexican holiday the Day of the Dead (or Dia de Muertos), and is about a young boy.

Based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name, the film begins in 1951 as Marcus Messner (Lerman), a precocious young Jewish boy, is about to enter college life and, by extension, avoid being drafted for the Korean War.

«Empire of the Sun» (1987) Another Steven Spielberg - directed film stars Christian Bale and John Malkovich in the film about a young English boy who struggles to survive under Japanese occupation.

The film, which Hazanavicus wrote based on the 1948 film of the same name, is about «an NGO worker who forms a special relationship with a young boy in warn - torn Chechnya.»

Little is know about the film but rumor has it it might be about a young boy discovering Excalibur and then being forced to save the world.

Although the story is very different, in many ways Roger Dodger is a less commercial, more adult version of About a Boy, with both films centering around an egotistical womanizer who learns a thing or two when taking a younger boy under his wiBoy, with both films centering around an egotistical womanizer who learns a thing or two when taking a younger boy under his wiboy under his wing.

Chbosky attempts to spread Palacio's message of acceptance It looks like this fall will be stirring up the feels in us with Wonder, a film about a young 5th grade age boy named Auggie Pullman, played by Jacob Tremblay (The Book of Henry, Room), who has severe facial deformities and to make matters worse he's -LSB-...]

Veteran British theater director and first time film director Stephen Aldry weaves together a touching and funny story about a young boy learning ballet.

Based on the Nick Hornsby novel and Hugh Grant film, About a Boy is about a loutish bachelor (David Walton) who finds his priorities in life shifting after he befriends an awkward young neighbor (Benjamin StockAbout a Boy is about a loutish bachelor (David Walton) who finds his priorities in life shifting after he befriends an awkward young neighbor (Benjamin Stockabout a loutish bachelor (David Walton) who finds his priorities in life shifting after he befriends an awkward young neighbor (Benjamin Stockham).

Forget about Twilight, the best teenage vampire film this year was this Swedish import about a young boy who discovers that the girl next door is a vampire.

In the film, actor Brendan Gleeson portrays cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (played at a younger age by Tom Holland), who when he is older tells the story of the ship to Herman Melville («Skyfall» actor Ben Whishaw), who wrote a book about a whale you might have heard of.

Instead of a sentimental and funny story about singing and dancing jungle animals befriending an abandoned boy in the middle of the jungle, Claerbout's film removes the young human protagonist and dispenses with the anthropomorphism of the animals.