Sentences with phrase «includes young characters»

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Horne also offended Norway's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community after the re-emergence of a tweet that she sent in 2010 about a children's book that included gay characters: «I wonder if it's okay that kindergartens are reading gay adventures for young children?»

But the craziness shouldn't obscure the greatness of the city or the reasons that so many younger people, in particular, are being drawn to it, which include the character and quirkiness of its architecture and residents, the proximity to natural beauty, and the possibilities of all that potential.

Meredith et al.'s [22] younger dates for these clades may reflect the difficulties of timetree analyses for clades such as Mammalia that include taxa with a wide range of life history characters (e.g., baleen whales versus muroid rodents) and a correspondingly wide range of molecular evolutionary rates.

I'm very brilliant, clever, nice looking, healthy and fun loving young man.Above all, some of the character traits that l possess includes; good sense of humor, good and noble manners, very transparent and genuine and the ability to concentrate and to understand - To mention but a few..

Emilia developed an interest in acting at a young age after seeing the Latest news on Emilia Clarke including updates on her movies, TV shows and character Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, plus stories on her Instagram.

Ron Howard's directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto follows young lovers Sam (Howard) and Paula (Nancy Morgan) as they decide to elope after her parents demand that she marry a wealthy scion (Paul Linke's Collins Hedgeworth)- with the couple's decision to steal her father's Rolls Royce triggering a cross-country chase as they're subsequently pursued by dozens of oddball characters (including Rance Howard's Ned and Clint Howard's Ace).

We also meet an array of supporting characters, including a pair of corrupt innkeepers (Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter), a young revolutionary named Marius (Eddie Redmayne) smitten with Cosette, and the innkeepers» daughter Éponine (Samantha Barks), who is meant to be the thread that ties many of these stories together in the film's second half.

A dozen or more excellent character actors keep things fairly interesting, and the cast includes everyone from the Young Actor of the Moment, Timothee Chalamet (as a marginal member of Blocker's gang), to Rory Cochrane as Blocker's longtime friend, a ruined man with too much blood on his hands.

The script, credited to Reynolds, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, finds the mutant Deadpool meandering his way to the X-Mansion and joining various X-Men members — including Domino (Zazie Beetz) and Colossus (computer effects plus the voice of Stefan Kapičić)-- as they try to protect an alienated, rebellious teen mutant called Firefist (Julian Dennison) from assassination by the Terminator, er Looper, er mercenary - from - the - future Matthew Cable (Josh Brolin, aka Young Nick Nolte Returned, playing his second Marvel character in less than a month).

The movie expands the roster of familiar characters to include Aunt Opal (Heather Graham unleashing her inner child), who shows up to mind Judy (Jordana Beatty) and her younger brother Stink when their parents are suddenly called away to care for a sick relative.

Young and optimistic, he seems convinced that change is possible without violence, but Assad's harsh reaction to this movement proves otherwise: The army cracks down, claiming the lives of innocents and children in the process, while detaining suspected dissidents — including activist cameraman Ossama al Homsi, whom Derki had hoped to feature as one of the docu's main characters, until his disappearance.

A climactic showdown with his family — including his mother - in - law, wife and young child — goes way over the top, but Razmik is a great example of how there's more than meets the eye with all these characters.

The English Patient is at most a feature for dreamy young adults (especially those who consider it romantic for a character to become a Nazi in order to spend time with a former lover's dead body), and even the good points of The Crucible and Ghosts of Mississippi don't include the sort of insights that ought to come with age.

And there are some scary characters, including a 3 - headed dragon and some Yetis that make the film a little too intense for young children.

Adapted from stories drawn from Giovanni Boccaccio's medieval book «The Decameron,» the film draws humor from the tension between its setting and the way the characters speak and interact as a story unfolds about a fugitive servant (Dave Franco) who pretends to be a deaf - mute to be taken in by a convent that includes three young nuns (Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci), each dealing with personal crises of their own.

Meanwhile, Alice's journeys through time treat us to various tragicomic episodes from characters» past, including a look at a young, sensitive Hatter with his curly red - haired family (Rhys Ifans plays his father) and a Frozen-esque squabble from the Red and White Queens» shared childhood.

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.

There's also room for significant new characters including a British soldier and a young girl he hopes to protect.

Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...

Rachel McAdams» resume includes a wide variety of characters including a bully in Mean Girls, a unscrupulous thief in Sherlock Holmes, a hostage victim in Red Eye, a young society girl in The Notebook and a troubled spouse in The Time Traveler's Wife.

The PS Vita version — first announced back in June — includes two new playable characters, the stage actress Wigfrid and Webber, a young boy who «lives inside the spider who tried to eat him long ago,» according to Klei.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

Grander in scope than any previous film in the series, the story spends most of its first 45 minutes globetrotting to catch us with all the key characters, and introducing us to the new ones, including the young Jean, Scott and Kurt, played winningly by Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Kodi Smit - McPhee, respectively.

Wes Ball's The Maze Runner: Scorched Earth is set to mainly feature a young cast, including Kaya Scodelario, Dylan O'Brien, Thomas Brodie - Sangster, Ki Hong Lee and Will Poulter... but now news of an adult character has hit the headlines, and it's a villain to be played by famed GoT villain Aidan Gillen, best known for his role at «Littlefinger» on the show.

«Fantastic Beasts» wouldn't be the first time the films flashed back to his (relative) youth; «Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince» also showed some of the character's earlier years, including the day he recruited a young Tom Riddle to Hogwarts.

We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!

Amblin Entertainment returns to present a Bad Robot production of Super 8, directed by filmmaker J.J. Abrams («Lost», Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek), starring a cast of young kids and talented character actors, including Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning.

Arteta surrounds the two young stars with a stable of some of the best working character actors, including M. Emmet Walsh, Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Long and Ray Liotta (used much better here than in Date Night).

Though she's dated only women for the last 16 years, Pegeen swiftly seduces Axler; their subsequent relationship draws several other characters out of the woodwork, including her infuriated parents (Dan Hedaya and Dianne Wiest, both very funny), her distraught transgender ex (Billy Porter), and an infatuated college dean (Kyra Sedgwick), who warns Axler that the young woman will «take you apart like a Christmas toy.»

The only real additions to the mix are some new characters, including Shia LaBoeuf as Indy's younger sidekick and Ray Winstone as a companion closer to his own age, and a recourse to computer imagery that becomes less and less hidden as the film unfolds.

Other examples of historical characters in biographies in the 1930 - 40s included Norman Taurog's children's dramatic film Young Tom Edison (1940) about the famed inventor (Mickey Rooney), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), the historical drama Marie Antoinette (1938) about the famous Austrian princess who married future King Louis XVI, Michael Curtiz» costume drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and Mervyn LeRoy's oft - nominated Madame Curie (1943) with Greer Garson as the title character researching radioactivity with her husband Pierre (Walter Pidgeon).

At the same time, a slightly younger, more flamboyantly out contingent — which includes the movie's main character, an HIV - positive radical played to soul - searing perfection by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart — wants to stage public kiss - ins, lead raunchy cheers at rallies with pink pompoms, and sheath the city's Luxor Obelisk in a giant condom.

Produced by J.J. Abrams and Creators Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason (Lie to Me), the series will star some of the best character actors working today, including Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Scott Glenn (Daredevil), Terry O'Quinn (The Stepfather, The X-Files), Jane Levy (Don't Breathe) and another young actor you've likely seen clowning around, Bill Skarsgard (IT).

The cast of archetypal characters includes a Hooker With a Heart of Gold (Raymonde), a Wise - Beyond - Her - Years Teenager (Diana Hopper) and even a Young Woman Who Is Obviously Gorgeous But No One Can Tell Because She's Wearing Glasses (Olivia Thirlby).

These new images reveal the cast of characters, including Ansel Elgort and Kaitlyn Dever's young loners, Adam Sandler and Rosemarie DeWitt's disillusioned married couple, and Dean Norris» single father.

Among them is an unhinged character who kidnaps and imprisons young women, including Casey (Anya Taylor - Joy) for a mysterious but almost certainly nefarious purpose.

This time around, the characters include Sandy (Jennifer Aniston), whose picture - perfect divorce is threatened when her former husband (Timothy Olyphant) unexpectedly marries his much - younger girlfriend Tina (Shay Mitchell) and tries to include her in the lives of their two young sons.

The characters include: a couple (Connie Britton and Jason Mantzoukas) who are actively trying to have a baby; a woman (Julie Bowen) having a fling with a younger man (Gregory Smith); a teenage girl (Sarah Hyland) ready to lose her virginity to her boyfriend (Matt Prokop); a lesbian couple (Pamela Adlon and Moon Bloodgood) preparing for artificial insemination; a husband and wife (Jonathan Silverman and Jennifer Finnigan) whose marriage has grown cold; and a man (Alan Tudyk) who's sex life is hindered by the newborn his wife (Jennifer Jostyn) has just delivered.

Only the film's supporting cast — which includes such dependable character actors as Pam Grier, John Cleese, Burt Young, Jay Mohr, Joe Pantoliano, and Luis Guzmán — provides the faintest glimmer of hope.

Those characters include Larry (Algee Smith), the talented lead singer of an aspiring doo - wop group, whose appearance on the stage of the Fox Theatre is canceled when the police evacuate the building, as well as the young singing group's equally young assistant Fred (Jacob Latimore).

Felicity Jones plays a character named Jyn Erso, leading up a cast that includes Diego Luna, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Jonathan Aris, Eunice Olumide, and Genevieve O'Reilly reprising her role from Revenge Of The Sith as young Mon Mothma.

Despite boasting a cool premise and a talented young cast (including Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby and Joel Kinnaman of «The Killling»), «The Darkest Hour» is B - movie material at best, marred by terrible performances, clichéd characters and a lack of excitement.

While minimal profanities are included, some intense moments of peril as well as several off - screen murders, committed by an entirely unrepentant character, will make this film too frightening for many younger audience members.

Featuring a rich assortment of peripheral characters, including a mystically upbeat party animal (Zac Efron), a brooding young depressive (John Magaro), and a feisty Romantics professor (Allison Janney), LIBERAL ARTS explores the emotional tug - of - war between youth and adulthood, as played out on a leafy Midwest campus that is both Eden - like and tumultuous — and entirely unforgettable.

After another well - received tour of duty promoting the upcoming season before the fans during a Ballroom 20 presentation at Comic - Con International in San Diego, Clark Gregg and Chloe Bennet joined members of the press, including CBR News, to chat a tad deeper on what's up ahead, specifically with the show's plan to introduce a Marvel Cinematic Universe incarnation of the Secret Warriors — in the comics, young, powered - up of S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives who are ultimately led by Bennet's character Daisy «Quake» Johnson.

create a picture to accompany the story that includes the superimposed face of the young student as the main character in the story;

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

This 6 page Readers Theatre script is adapted for 6 voices: 2 Narrators, Young Girl, Rumpelstiltskin and 2 Readers 6 Page Teacher notes include: reproducibles Comparing Scripts for Common Themes Matching Character to Events (to strengthen expressive reading) Plus: Tips for Strengthening Oral Expression Vocal Expression Assessment guide

The book includes policies, programs, and practices that are effective in developing the talents, skills, knowledge, and character of young adolescents.