Sentences with phrase «filming by a family friend»

Not exact matches

The film stars Freida Pinto who's visited by a friend, played by model Maritza Veer, for a family wedding in India.

The fourth film in the animated Ice Age series follows Manny, Diego, and Sid as they try to reunite with their family and friends after they are separated by the dividing continents.

Using archival photos and film, including performances by Simone over a period of more than three decades, excerpts from the singer's diaries, and interviews with family members, friends and musical colleagues, What Happened, Miss Simone?

Like those previous films, Foxcatcher is based on a true story, in this case the tragic murder of Olympic gold medal - winning wrestler David Schultz by his friend John du Pont, a mentally ill multimillionaire who had a training facility for wrestlers built at his family's Foxcatcher estate.

One of the many toils of addiction, under - acknowledged by films and novels, is the frustration felt by an addict's family and friends.

To prepare, Jordan went to the Bay Area and spent time with Grant's friends and family, including his mother, Wanda (played in the film by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer), and his daughter, who was 4 when her father was killed.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Sure, there are appearances by luminaries from a wide spectrum of life (Keith Urban, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Martin, and President Bill Clinton, to name a few) who speak to what a figure of consequence Campbell was, but so much more of the film is filled with family and friends who offer both warm memories of Campbell and chilling insight into how this disease is so painful to watch.

This valuable feature, directed by family friend Becky Baumgartner, reveals how true the film remains to the facts, including Hamilton's optimism, humility, and strong religious convictions.

That film is The Goonies, the 1985 comedy adventure film directed by Richard Donner, about a group of young friends who try to beat a family of criminals to a hidden pirate treasure to help save the neighborhood where they all live from being torn down and turned into a golf course.

In the film, Jandreau draws on his life experiences and is surrounded by a cast of his real - life family and friends, but his quiet and introspective character (Brady Blackburn) is the polar opposite of his real - life personality.

The main protagonist of the film is a villager we come to know as Jaguar Paw (Youngblood), a hunter who sees his extended family and friends taken into slavery, if they weren't killed altogether, by a much more formidable presence.

For Notebook editor Daniel Kasman, though, the film — a series of conversations with family, friends, and mentors conducted by a college graduate who's returned to his small hometown near the port city of Çanakkale — «proved immediately engrossing, like that wonderful experience of starting a hefty book late at night and finding oneself reading until dawn.»

The first, by George A. Romero, his wife and assistant director Chris Romero (née Forrest) and Tom Savini, reveals that almost all the cast were friends, family or local Pittsburgh volunteers (even the mall was owned by personal friends of Romero), that the original script had a far bleaker ending (everybody dies) which was changed during the shoot because the film was «too much fun» for it, and that the fourth film, should it ever get made, is a larger - scale affair set in a down - town area, with lots of action sequences and an overarching theme of «ignoring the problem».

For her latest film, Your Sister's Sister, she's brought a name actress into the fold: Emily Blunt plays Iris, who hopes to help her friend Jack (Duplass) get over his brother's death by letting him stay at her family's empty holiday cabin.

She spent years filming Jandreau (who in the film goes by the name Brady Blackburn), his family, his friends, their lives, and the great, empty spaces of the Badlands where they live.

Rife with priceless archival concert footage as well as recent wistful remembrances by friends and family, the film opens with an examination of Phil's early years as a band geek in high school, followed by his matriculating at Ohio State where he picked up the guitar.

To the film's credit, this is not primarily a gay - identity drama; that subtext is, for the most part, accepted by friends and family.

Yes, there are some beats in the film that are a bit too sitcomish, but this is a movie that will find an audience at home, recommended by friends and family members.

Influenced by films, billboard advertising, music, poetry, his circle of friends and family, Katz's work is characterized by his lifelong attempt to capture the present tense in paint.

External factors may include the media (younger people may want for more from a relationship after being socialised by images of romance on films and television), seeing friends and families in relationships (people who have divorced or separated parents may have a different CL to those with parents who are still married), or experiences from prior relationships, which have taught the person to expect more or less from a partner.