Sentences with word «juvie»
"Juvie" is a slang term used to refer to a juvenile detention center or a place where young people who break the law are sent. Full definition
My mother was in the middle of a six - month stint in juvie for shoplifting and possession when I was born.
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Ingrid In - Group got pregnant, Druggie Dougie got expelled, and floated in and out of juvie, and I don't even know what happened to everyone else.
The young man with the lethal fists is one Adonis Johnson, who has been bouncing from juvie hall to foster home on and off since his mother died.
Just nineteen, Eric has been relocated from juvie to the big house, a claustrophobic expanse of cross-hatched steel bars, teeming with hardened criminals for whom seething anger is their resting state.
As a young kid, he spent many years in juvie getting into fight after fight until he was adopted.
The film introduces him as a kid brawling with other boys in juvie before he's taken in by Apollo's widow (Phylicia Rashad).
After bouncing around the foster care system and circling the drain at juvie, Donny «Adonis» Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) has made a good life for himself in Los Angeles courtesy of his guardian, Mary - Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad).
Meanwhile, «Dance Like a Penguin: Stomp to the Beat» is a 5 - minute juvie dance lesson courtesy Mumbles» alter ego Savion Glover, who, like anybody with a natural gift, makes it look easy.
some choice lyrics: Behind the bars, there's a superstar who never had a chance, she could sing, she could dance You don't sing and dance in juvie honey...
Worse still is Louie's juvie bad boy self - assessment delivered to his big brother Pete (John D'Leo and Alex Russell), whom he idolises: «Let me be nothing.»
Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) starts out as a troubled kid in juvie when his father's wife (but not his mother) Mary Anne Creed (Phylicia Rashad) takes him in.
Wacky, dark and unmistakably a product of New Zealand, Taika Waititi's unhinged comedy - adventure introduces us to an unruly juvie offender (Julian Dennison) who falls under the baleful eye of his mountain - man foster uncle (a flinty Sam Neill, armed with multiple weapons).
The sad - eyed teacher at Leland's maximum - security juvie hall is played by the consistently disappointing Don Cheadle, an actor who has yet to live up to his breakthrough performance in Devil in a Blue Dress and does little to inspire confidence in what is essentially the guidance counsellor role in a particularly clumsy teen tragedy.
Will juvie break our hero, or will «Shiraz Thunderbird» break OUT of Alcatraz, Jr.?
Out of juvie, the boy is dropped off by case worker Paula (Rachel House) at the countryside home of eccentric couple Bella (Rima Te Wiata) and Hec (Sam Neill).
As a young kid, he spent many years in juvie getting into fight after fight untilRead More →
I feel like I'm getting the hang of the adult court and then BAM I got ta go feel like a fool again because I have no idea what I'm doing in juvie!
Locked up in the juvie for psychological evaluation, Vanessa gets in touch with her wild side and eventually escapes, heading off to her fateful meeting with grandma.
Motocross enthusiast Jacob runs with a bad crowd, constantly one move from heading to juvie.
His stirring, semi-sequel-slash-reboot to the long - dormant Rocky saga begins with a snarling orphan throwing punches in a juvie hall.
Among them is Gino (Matthias Schoenaerts), the boy from the prelude now grown up and working in the «import - export» business with his pals from «juvie.»
He's caught by local cops and sent to juvie, but allowed home at night, where he shares space with his emotionally distant father, played by Paul.
Tom Courtenay (so fine with Charlotte Rampling in the current 45 Years) gives a classic angry - young - man performance as a borstal boy who starts training for a race while in the juvie clink.
Rumors circulated among his former classmates that he was a gangbanger, that he had been in «juvie,» and that he was under house arrest.
His placement with Aunt Bella is his last stop before juvie.
There's Ren, from Brooklyn and just out of juvie, who makes his way to LA to look for his mother on Skid Row who has been lost to him for years.
A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be.
Because Julian looks «white» and was adopted by loving middle class parents, I think that Paula concludes that he is a softie and could never have the toughness that she has, after her unconventional childhood, including «juvie.»
Alex, Brooke and Maryanne are all students in their final year of high school at Streep Academy, a boarding school just short of juvie.
Working 5 shifts a month a juvie keeps me in FT retirement with the state of Ohio.