Sentences with phrase «in high school films»

It's your typical coming - of - age story, but one that's handled with a certain level of maturity rarely found in high school films, and though the comparisons to «The Breakfast Club» may not be completely warranted, it's one of the few movies about high school that actually gets it right.

It was one of my first REAL foreign film experiences in my high school film class and it's always stuck with me since.

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In the film, dozens of Japanese high - school students are placed on an island, given weapons, and forced to kill one another until one person remains.

An unfiltered glorification of crime, the movie is thought to have encouraged a number of copycat killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, during which 12 people were shot dead, as the murderers supposedly yelled lines from the film.

In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

So I'd suggest adding this terrific film to the curriculum of every Catholic (and indeed every Christian) high school in North America, to remind students what happened in their parents» lifetimes and to inspire them to moral greatness themselves.

I recall the safe driving films in high school that made kids think a little more when driving.

This film was shown in the Bible classes in the school where I teach — Encina High, Sacramento — when, in 1973, we introduced a Bible course there as a junior - senior nine - week literature elective.

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

There's a lot to be said about Lady Bird, a wonderful film about a young girl's final year of high school in Sacramento.

Horton's background in the Dallas - Fort Worth area helped him discover Washington, who put up eye - popping film and was a top sprinter on the track team at Kennedale High School.

He does the things that leaders do, like paying the way for several of his receivers to join him for off - season passing workouts, dubbed Jets West, at his old high school in Mission Viejo, Calif., and putting in long hours of film study.

The Sutcliffes» part in Welch's recovery is described in Welch's book, Five O'clock Comes Early, and documented in a 23 - minute film called Comebacker, which is shown at high schools, churches and alcohol - rehabilitation centers.

Stallworth was thrilled when, in 1970, a member of the Alabama staff asked his high school coach for game films.

Besides watching every game on film and fielding the complaints of outraged general managers, Kuharich assigns officials to games — there are 45 NFL officials of whom 35 are used every weekend — keeps tabs on other officials, college and high school, who would like to get into professional football and, of course, makes certain that the officials he has now are always in control of the game.

LeBron James teared up at the Toronto film festival as he watched More Than a Game, a documentary that follows James and teammates in their pre - high school and high school years.

Yates Center knows who ate supper in the backyard last night, who had a new thermostat installed, who did or did not make his contribution to the Quarterback Club for buying films of the high school games, who takes cream in his coffee.

Whether she was moving and grooving in the Disney Channels hit High School Musical TV film series, or rock n rolling through an obstacle course in VH1s 2010 season of Celebrity Fit Club, KayCee Stroh has showed that shes got some moves.

The film documents an experiment by John Cisna, a high school science teacher, who ate nothing but McDonald's for six months and lost 60 pounds in the process.

TV and film producer Trevor Engelson was born and raised in Great Neck, where he graduated from Great Neck North High School.

A New Jersey high - school principal was suspended for allowing rapper Fetty Wap to film a racy music video at the star's alma mater in Paterson, officials said.

Battinelli started his photo journey in 1995 when his father, an amateur hobbyist photographer, bought him a Pentax P30T 35 mm black and white film camera for Christmas so that he could take photography classes in high school at Peru Central Sschool at Peru Central SchoolSchool.

25 year old Vanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer who rose to fame in her teens starring in the High School Musical films.

After having a laugh at my expense, we found a suitable substitute and bonded over our love of raw fish and Bradley Cooper films, and I regressed to a high school kid with butterflies in his stomach when she laid her head on my shoulder during the movie.

The film is about high - school senior Bianca, played by Mae Whitman, who finds out living a gay life in the heart of Manila Philippines

Following a crew of high - school - aged Asian - Americans who use their reputations as studious bookworms to mask their criminal activities, the movie proved without a doubt that Cho had what it took to make it in film.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

Exposing a different side of Shrek (only brief buttock nudity is seen), the movie sidesteps some of the sexual innuendos played out in previous films, however it depicts a group of high school students stumbling out of a smoke - filled chariot where they've been sharing a joint between classes.

Cyler swept audiences off their feet during his starring film debut as high - school filmmaker, Earl, in the bittersweet teen dramedy, ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, opposite Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, and Connie Britton, for which he received many great accolades.

Moodysson's teen protagonists are more complex than both the high school stereotypes (the nerd, the jock, the beauty queen) in films like «American Pie» and the self - absorbed philosophers on «Dawson's Creek.»

Set in suburban Indiana, the film stars Rockwell as Bill Greaves, an adult misfit recruited by the local high school principal (Corddry) to coach the school's floundering girls» basketball team.

There's every reason to remake the film for the current generation of teens and twenty - somethings, Craig Brewer's version scripted by him and Dean Pitchford updated to the current year, but one in which the high - school kids barely use cell phones and only a few computers are in sight at the school library.

And in a short break from the Tidy Bowl swirl of jokes, the film uses pretty much every high school cliché when Shrek arrives at WA.

Getting short - shrift in all of this is Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas, The Rules of Attraction), who is pushed mostly to the side here — although that may be intended irony, since his character was the most sexually experienced in the original film, making him the guy most likely to have had his glory day in high school, only to go downhill from there.

There's also a small segment dedicated to the real high school marching band that filled in for the WA band in the film.

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.

The Artist plays around with the distinction between silent and sound cinema, resulting in the superficial entertainment value of a high concept film school joke.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.

A fixture of Frank Capra films, Harry Holman showed up as the high school principal in Capra's Yuletide perennial It's a Wonderful Life.

Find out in this fantastic, rousing film - but remove all fears of the typical teen - pop covered high school musicals from your minds, as the songs in this film are from legendary artists like David Bowie, The Beach Boys, ELO, and The Byrds.

He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1999 and then made the short drive to Fort Worth to study theatre at Texas Christian University where Travis graduated in May 2003 with a BFA in Theater Performance.His first screen appearance was in the independent film The Anarchist Cookbook (2002).

The highest - grossing anime film in history, Makoto Shinkai's fifth feature is based on his own novel detailing the star - crossed relationship between Mitsuha, a high school girl living in rural Japan, and Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, who swap bodies.

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.

Back in his feature debut, Brick, writer - director Rian Johnson was content to bring deep shades of film noir to the hallways of high school.

The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image was shot in Super 35 mm by Director of Photography Mark Irwin, C.S.C. / A.S.C., giving it the same lame school look emphasizing the same color schemes typical of such films shot in California.

But the film's ambitions and execution are on a par with those of Drew Peterson: Untouchable, as courtroom scenes actually shown in 1996's Paradise Lost are re-enacted with the urgency of high school theater.

With little resemblance to the classical literary work of Jonathan Swift, this is one film that should never show up in a high school English class as a study aid.

Broad Green has revealed a trailer for a horror film titled Wish Upon, about a teenager in high school who starts messing around with a mysterious magic box that her father brings home one day.