Sentences with phrase «film about a young man»

Sex Drive, a 2008 film about a young man who goes on a cross-country.

There have been similar films about young men traveling home to find themselves of late, perhaps most successfully in a similarly themed vehicle, Garden State, but Buscemi's knack for drawing out well - rounded eccentric characters that are believable allows Jim to work more often than not.

The Atlantic looks back at key cinematic moments in 2016, this time Barry Jenkins's film about a young man's life in three acts.

Brigsby Bear is a gently bizarre film about a young man whose life is upended when he learns the truth about his life and decides to make a movie to complete a children's show that was made just for him.

AMERICAN HISTORY X An interesting and for the most part honest presentation of a difficult subject, this film about a young man who becomes the leader of a neo-Nazi gang is hampered by a banal ending and some unconvincing moments.

McCarthy's film about a young man inheriting a disused train station in a quiet New Jersey town is quaint and eccentrically - humoured, but joyfully so.

Not exact matches

All the statistics about attendees indicate that horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.

Oh, this is totally random, but have you ever seen the film «Lilies», which won four Genie Awards in 1996, about the two young men of Roberval, Quebec who fall in love in 1912 — and the poignant tale of how their love is undone by jealousy?

1996's The Darien Gap followed — a feature - length effort about a young man (Lyn Voss, portraying himself) whose persistent dreams of filming the great Patagonian sloth prevent him from sustaining a relationship with the woman he loves (Sandi Carroll).

Luckily, he's riveting in the role: The film, about a novice British soldier cut off from his unit during a riot in Belfast, is less about words and more about the varieties of terror in a young man's eyes.

Measure of a Man is intended as a touching coming - of - age film about one crucial summer in a young man's liMan is intended as a touching coming - of - age film about one crucial summer in a young man's liman's life.

Starring Ben Stiller as Mel, the film is about a man who is trying to find his biological parents by sailing out on a cross country trip along with his wife, and a young employee of the adoption agency that he was part of.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

Actually, a minor quibble about this film is just how clueless this young man is.

«I think Elio [the young man played Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile and I'd like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali's Once More,» a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS.

Aaron Godfred's feature film debut, Little Blue Pill, is a raunchy indie comedy about a young man who accidentally takes Viagra like pills and experiences all the side - effects that comes

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

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.

Nothing came along to really challenge Boyhood, a beautifully made film about the tender upbringing of a young man coming of age in a complicated country.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

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.

There's been a lot of discussion about how Allen's proclivity toward May - December relationships mirror his own personal life, and quite frankly, it's getting a bit exhausting watching the director indulge his fantasy of beautiful young women falling in love with older men, especially now that he's no longer playing the lead in his films.

I sat with some good friends at my showing awaiting the two and a half hour film and only did I realize the young lads sitting behind us were commenting on the parts that weren't «plausible» to the real world... because that's why you went to see a movie about a guy that throws his shield at a flying metal man.

The films are Christine Vachon's «A Man In Your Room» (1984), about a priest haunted by his desire for an impish young man and Haynes» first film «Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud» (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlMan In Your Room» (1984), about a priest haunted by his desire for an impish young man and Haynes» first film «Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud» (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlman and Haynes» first film «Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud» (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlaw.

An Education — I'd expect that a film about a young girl in 1962 who's so infatuated with the life of the Parisian intellectual (jazz, cigarettes, New Wave movies) that she dates an older man to have at least a sense of why that Parisian lifestyle is so interesting.

One of the most talked - about films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, TICKLED begins with reporter David Farrier stumbling upon a bizarre «competitive endurance tickling» video online, wherein young men Read More →

Focus Features won an intense bidding war for the rights to this film adaptation of Garrard Conley's memoir about a young man forced into the often abusive and increasingly illegal practice of «conversion therapy» to «cure» his homosexuality.

The film includes a passionate romance of a couple that can make you believe the scene involving sex in a tiny phone booth, a rehash of the 1991 arrest of mafia chieftain John Gotti, and a family drama about a young man who makes too few visits to his mother and kid brother to impress them even though he offers them an envelope filled with more cash than they could make in five years.

After all their on - screen chemistry as the wise - cracking old master and young, inexperienced apprentice worked so incredibly well in Spider - Man Homecoming it's hard not to get hyped about seeing where Marvel Studios will take the characters in the third Avengers film.

The film's hero with a dozen faces is a young man (Wiley Wiggins of «Dazed and Confused») who wanders an urban dreamscape, encountering various guides and fellow sleepwalkers, most of whom have something to say about the meaning of life and the nature of death.

Ella Rumpf is a young French - Swiss actress who plays the «Tiger Girl» in Jakob Lass» Tiger Girl, a super smart and totally awesome film about sticking it to the man.

Weekend — Andrew Haigh's the 2011 film of two young gay men who meet, have sex and talk — got all the acclaim a few years back, casting a long shadow over Tom Shkolnik's underseen 2012 movie about a struggling stand - up comic (Edward Hogg) torn between his female roommate (Elisa Lasowski) and the boyfriend he met on the night bus (Nathan Stewart - Jarrett).

In a practically neverending series of exposition dumps over the first act of the film, Thomas is educated by various members of the community on the rules that they have learned to operate with in order to keep the peace between this group of hormonal, angry young men who are desperate for a way out (though oddly they don't seem to be too upset about their predicament).

6:00 pm — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland's second Academy Award was for this film, based on Henry James» novel Washington Square, about an aging woman (in those days, aging meant like «older than 25») forbidden by her father from loving an earnest but non-socially-equal young man.

Truth is, the man still has his wits about him, or at least enough so to provide his granddaughter with decisive words of wisdom near the film's climax — a dour speech about real violence and death being anesthetized by the media that's hard not to interpret as Haneke's own wake - up call to the young and naïve.

Disappearing fingers, Looper Rian Johnson's third film, Looper (following Brick and The Brothers Bloom), raised a nigh - infinite number of questions about the mechanics of the time - travel plot, which has young men working for a criminal syndicate that, among other things, requires them to murder their 30 - years - older selves.

(Janez Burger, 1999, Slovenia) Usually, films about bored young men reluctant to grow up don't interest me, but Idle Running is...

For Timothée Chalamet, who plays Lady Bird's mansplaining crush, Kyle, Gerwig encouraged viewings of Éric Rohmer films to study «young men talking at women about their ideas.»

Few filmmakers could do anything original or vibrant by making yet another film about a creative yet difficult man (who's also in a relationship with a younger woman), but that's what Paul Thomas Anderson does in Phantom Thread.

(Tellingly, Creed's one major nomination was for Sylvester Stallone, the white supporting player in a film about a young black man.)

Other films featuring gay interracial romance include «Chutney Popcorn,» about an Indian - American lesbian surrogate mother and her white girlfriend; «The Wedding Banquet,» about a closeted Chinese man involved with a white American man; and «Brother to Brother,» a Harlem Renaissance drama featuring a young black man and his white male lover.

The real Abagnale made a very profitable life out of people's predetermined notions about image (a couple of million dollars worth), and the film's humor comes from the way a charming young man, nicely dressed, always ready with a smooth word or two is able to get whatever he wants.

There isn't an explanation of why he chose to secretly leave Cuba after the revolution, no reference to his time in the Congo, no explanation about why he chose Bolivia as his next field of operations, no reference to the political decisions he made as a young man motorcycling across South America (as described in the 2004 film «The Motorcycle Diaries»).

Filmed over seven weeks about a month after their historic appearance on «The Ed Sullivan Show», Hard Day's Night opens with the four young men evading the young, predominantly female screaming masses who follow them around.

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.

In a recent profile with The New York Times, Jason Blum — the producer behind Get Out, Jordan Peele's massively popular 2017 thriller about a young black man who faces a terrifying form of racism in a predominantly white suburb — announced that one of his followup projects will be a horror film about black lesbians living in the «burbs, directed by Dee Rees.

On Chesil Beach: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson and Anne - Marie Duff star in this film based on Ian McEwan's novel about a young man and woman who find themselves caught up with the sexual revolution and societal pressures in 1962 England.

This «operativo» turned into one of the most hair - raising and intense parts of the film and also an important turning point: while scoping out an area of town, they got shot at; frantically jumped out of the car to take cover; got info about who was shooting at them and went on a witch - hunt through town looking for a «white Jetta,» Instead, they found a seemingly innocent man in a white Cherokee; pulled him out of the car and then away from his family and distraught young daughter; interrogated him at gun point in the back seat of the car speeding through town as I was jammed in between the two middle seats; and then brought him back to a torture chamber where they were similarly interrogating others with tazers.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

Chloé Zhao's first feature film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, showed the beautiful and difficult life of a young man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; his relationship with his family, his clashes with white men, and his own decisions about his future.