Sentences with phrase «life drama characters»

In an era of television characterized by fantasy, science dystopias and larger - than - life drama characters, Penelope Alvarez feels like the Every Mom.

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The reader, therefore, is alerted to what the characters in the drama do not know; that is, what is really going on here is not only a family crisis in Bethany but the crisis of the world, not only the raising of a dead man but the giving of life to the world.

Last night, Milo Ventimiglia, star of the hit drama This Is Us, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and of course, his character Jack's untimely death came up.

On one hand, «life story» versions of theology point to the narrative character of human experience and thereby connect theology to the drama of suffering and hope.

Your child's urine and bowel movements will basically become characters in the daily drama of your lives.

Whether it's the drama that's created when the various characters in our family get together, the tension that stems from political discussions, or the unnecessary comments and questions about our personal life, chances are most of us have had difficult family situations over the holidays at one point or another.

• If you've ever wondered HOW MUCH CHARACTERS ON YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW MAKE to fuel their exciting and drama filled TV lives, wonder no more.

«The Affair» The Showtime drama is about the lives of its characters in relation to each other, not the outside world.

This wonderful film could have so easily been made into a silly comedy but is fortunately instead a bittersweet drama that relies on a captivating performance by the always talented Ryan Gosling, who gives life to a sensitive character that never seems less than real.

This ensemble drama centers on a neighborhood cigar store as it chronicles the entangled lives of fifteen characters.

The film is limiting potential enough by conceptually simply studying on Oscar Wilde's sexual revelations and their subsequent consequences, rather than the whole of his brilliant life and tragic downfall, but when it comes to the execution, not enough studying is done in this often inspired, and just as often undercooked character drama which at least finds superficiality in its resonance.

Lawless may not entirely live up to the sum of all its celebrated parts but it succeeds in telling a riveting «true life» historical drama with plenty of entertaining and memorable characters coupled with smart filmmaking choices.

Taking inspiration from the personal life of his leading man (Lustig is a widowed grocer upon whose stories the screenplay is loosely based), Weinstein draws on his experience as a documentary film - maker to conjure a drama rooted in the reality of these characters and their community.

Also in 2002, Williams turned up in Rodrigo García's drama Ten Tiny Love Stories, as one of several characters who deliver heartfelt monologues on their romantic lives.

An unusually realistic teen movie, this drama gets deep under the skin of its characters, breathing new life into the genre.

The Way Way Back does generate a fair amount of laughs throughout the film, but misses on the emotional level because of the underplayed drama between mother and son — a shame because Collette's character had real potential to be more than just a naïve mother who is content with looking the other way for everything in life.

The film tries to play as a realistic crime drama, but blows it with larger than life characters and situations.

With a strong Guy Pearce performance, and supporting characters that are surprisingly rounded given what little screen time they have, it's a good drama that hits upon themes of accepting one's mortality, living without fear of the inevitable, and treating those around you as if your existence on this plane were about to expire at any time.

Great storytellers can make great drama from seemingly average days in their character's lives, sometimes offering even more insight into the human condition by transcending the mundane than highlighting the abnormal.

Among them are George Clooney's home - invasion race - critique «Suburbicon» featuring Matt Damon (he does double duty with «Downsizing»); Angelina Jolie's fact - based Khmer Rouge drama «First They Killed My Father,» a Cambodian production rooted in native culture; Greta Gerwig's California comedy «Lady Bird» starring Saoirse Ronan as the title character; and Andy Serkis» «Breathe,» about the real - life polio activist Robin Cavendish, played by Andrew Garfield.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

While Stephen Curry, perhaps best known for the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us, seems game for most of the crasser elements of the film, his character of Teddy seems woefully underwritten and he never is able to bring the depth he wants to exhibit to the character.

Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi bring out all the nuances of character and the drama hits the nail on the head in showing us the bitter and the sweet of family life.

It is unusual for characters in a Holocaust drama to have sexual lives, but in the long days and months living underground, human impulses are bound to surface, and «In Darkness» they do.

With Téchiné - like expertise, Honoré delicately weaves together the dramas of his characters» lives.

This zesty, defiantly awkward shambles of a film might be called a domestic drama, as it plucks its penniless main character from her beer - soaked California stage and sends her to the Midwest to deal with her wealthy ex-husband (Kevin Kline, playing off Streep as tenderly as in Sophie's Choice) and their suicidal adult daughter (Mamie Gummer, Streep's real - life progeny), a victim of Ricki's long - ago abandonment.

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...

Putting aside this tiresome plot - thread, which, quite frankly, adds very little tension or drama to the story, the film does introduce the personal lives of the crew, albeit only the primary characters.

Four new character teaser posters have debuted for director Xavier Dolan's upcoming drama The Death and Life of John F. Donovan featuring Kit Harington, Kathy Bates, Susan Sarandon, and Thandie Newton; check it out here... Kathy Bates in her teaser poster for #thedeathandlifeofjohnfdonovan A post shared by xavierdolan (@xavierdolan) on Sep 8, 2017 at 4:26 pm PDT @susansarandon -LSB-...]

She's part of the 2005 drama «North Country» starring Charlize Theron, and appears in «Alpha Dog» and on the short - lived CW series «Hidden Palms,» which ran for 8 episodes in 2007 with Amber as the lead female character, Greta Matthews.

A fact - based story about the real - life poker - game operator Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), the drama follows the title character as she masterminds an underground game for the mega-rich and famous in Los Angeles and New York, trying to outmaneuver her enemies and avoid calling everyone out when she lands on the legal hot seat.

The show is really just like any other drama on television, save for the fact that these characters happen to live on a space ship.

Maggie Gyllenhaal has never been more compelling than as the title character in this drama about a reformed heroin addict trying to pull her life together.

Produced by Letty Aronson, Erika Aronson, and Ed Walson, and financed by Amazon Studios, the drama is set in Coney Island during the 1950s and includes larger - than - life characters, lovers, infidelity, and gangsters.

Like his award - winning drama A Separation, this French drama from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi is packed with complex characters who have detailed, full lives.

That we are able to discern so much about a character from about 25 minutes of exposition, composed simply of fragments of daily life — no high drama, no overt statements of purpose or desire — has to do with the meticulous attention paid by the director and his leading actress to rhythms, textures, and small details of behavior.

To state the obvious: «The Runner» doesn't lack for drama, but the characters are so thinly and predictably drawn, and the movie's supposed insights into the art of political compromise so banal, that nothing catches fire — least of all Colin's flirtation with the (married) campaign publicist (Sarah Paulson) who re-enters his life just as the missus gives him the boot.

Director David Mackenzie (a 2014 Breakout Director) crafts the film with the grittiness befitting a modern prison drama, but so much falls on 24 - year - old O'Connell's lead character: the film lives or dies on his angry - dog turn.

The lead character in an Oscar Wilde play once opined «I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Ernest» — although highly regarded in its native Italy, The Girl by the Lake succeeds in being earnest but never really manages to capture the imagination in the way a great crime drama should.

In his great westerns, the river scenes are the brief escapes from violent lives in his character, reprieves in the middle of the drama before they march back out to meet their fates.

Directed by Robert Edwards, the indie drama follows Walken's aging musician character as he navigates a rocky relationship with his daughter Jude (Amber Heard), a gifted musician who can't quite seem to get her life in gear.

This week, he trades in the orange overalls and vests of a «hot shot» firefighter for the combat fatigues of a U.S. soldier, Sergeant Adam Schumann, returning from the Iraqi War in 2007 in writer - director Jason Hall's (American Sniper) earnest, authentically told, compassionate Thank You For Your Service, another «based on a true story» throwback war - at - home drama elevated — just like last week's Only the Brave — by Teller's unfailing, unflagging commitment to bringing the inner turmoil, turbulence, and torment of his character to complex, contradictory life.

Chicken with Plums (PG - 13 for drugs, smoking, sensuality and violent images) Maudlin, character - driven drama, set in Teheran in the Fifties, about an inconsolable violinist (Mathieu Amalric) who loses the will to live after his wife (Golshifteh Farahani) destroys his beloved instrument during a heated argument.

Occasional shoot - ups notwithstanding — there's a neat one that results in the killing of four hit - men who did not reckon that their victim had company — «Violet and Daisy» is more a sentimental comedy - drama that uses both the Gandolfini character and a godlike figure (Marianne Jean - Baptiste) to examine what had heretofore been unexamined lives.

Though it doesn't have the flashiness or high box office gross that Disney's more marketable live action films may have, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken has won over a remarkable number of people with its simple but heartfelt grounded - in - reality character drama.

Desplechin's latest, My Golden Days, represents a three - point return: to Roubaix, previously the setting of his family ensemble piece A Christmas Tale; to the rap and college rock 1980s of his youth; and to the archetypal characters of what's still one of his best films, My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument, the freeform, three - hour hip relationship drama to end all hip relationship dramas.

Shelter (Unrated) Character - driven drama, marking the directorial debut of Paul Bettany, revolving around the love which blossoms between a homeless street performer from Nigeria (Anthony Mackie) and a heroin - addicted widow (Jennifer Connelly) also living on the streets of New York.

Originally, the film was going to be a sequel with director Rupert Sanders returning but some real - life drama got in the way and they decided to focus on Chris Hemsworth's Huntsman character instead.

I imagine you probably get asked a lot about whether you have a preference for dark, tormented characters who live on the edge and what draws you to them, but you're also just a person who probably likes comedies as well as dramas.

I can see by all the other reviews that I'm dramatically in the minority here but if a teen drama around terminal illness is what you're looking for on a Sunday afternoon, then 2014's «The Fault in Our Stars» is much more deserving of your time with characters you'll actually care about and a story that will leave you thinking about life and how to make the most of it long after the end credits have rolled.