Sentences with phrase «life drama set»

The Florida Project Sean Baker's beautiful slice - of - life drama set at a motel near Disney World is full of beautiful scenes, each one an individual vignette that makes up a part of a bigger story.

Actor Michael Pena is joining Chris Hemsworth in a real - life drama set during the War in Afghanistan.

(In English, French and Arabic with subtitles) Red Hook Black (Unrated) Slice - of - life drama set against the backdrop of the Brooklyn waterfront where we find residents dealing with issues ranging from incest to sibling rivalry to the economy.

Director Sean Baker turned in one of the best movies of 2015 with «Tangerine,» and he's done it again this year with this slice - of - life drama set among struggling families residing in a run - down Orlando motel.

Not exact matches

The Coen's common tack of forcing the audience to confront the possibility of nihilism being true, of human life being essentially meaningless, which for them has usually played out within a crime drama, here occurs in a mundane set of events.

He met there many of the people who would become close friends or remain acquaintances for the rest of his life, and many of whom would play some part in the unfolding drama which was to be set in motion by himself.

SET BOUNDARIES with people who bring you down, bring unwanted drama into your life, or make you feel stressed.

Mad Men ® is an American period drama TV series set in the 1960's and is centered on the private and professional life of Don Draper (Jon... [Read more...]

Mad Men ® is an American period drama TV series set in the 1960's and is centered on the private and professional life of Don Draper (Jon Hamm), an enigmatic advertising executive on Madison Avenue.

ONCE known for his slick beats and rap skills, American Music Award nominated star Tyga is now better known for his love life dramas with his ex loves Nicki Minaj flashed the trendy new cleavage - underboob - on the Miami Beach set of the music video for Make Love on Monday.

The Greenhouse is a live action, suspenseful drama series set in an elite boarding school in Southern California called «The Greenhouse.»

Set at all - female Wellesley College in 1953, this is an uplifting and poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students.

After the whimsy of last week's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the real - life dramas of 2017's Another Mother's Son, the Channel Islands become home to something altogether more eerie in this Jersey - set debut feature from writer - director Michael Pearce.

Steven Soderbergh's last theatrically released movie prior to his self - imposed retirement (he also has an HBO drama about the life of Liberace arriving this summer) is a thriller set in the world of the pharmaceutical industry.

A Los Angeles man leads a double life as a rocket engineer by day and a performer of sex magic rituals by night in this drama series set in the 1940s.

This gritty British drama set in Glasgow during the 1960s offers an interesting look at the tumultuous lives of several teens as they precariously wend their way to adulthood.

They are films that are either documentaries or real life dramas that take the basic true elements of a story and put it in a fictional setting.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (R for graphic sexuality and nudity) Romance drama, set in Paris in the Twenties, abut the scandalous affair conducted by a famous French clothes designer (Anna Mouglalis) with the promising classical composer (Mads Mikkelsen) whose penniless, refugee family she let live in her villa after they escaped the Russian Revolution.

Broken (Unrated) Loss of innocence drama, set in North London, about an 11 year - old girl (Eloise Laurence) whose life is irreversibly altered after she witnesses a violent attack.

Parched Details: 2015, Wolfe Video Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A drama set in rural India that centers on four ordinary women who share the harsh lives of Indian women, including abusive and arranged marriages as well as widowhood.

In Sarah Polley's Toronto - set drama «Take this Waltz,» Margo (Michelle Williams) stumbles across Daniel (Luke Kirby) on a business trip, only to find he lives across the street; despite being married to Lou (Seth Rogen), Margo can't stop thinking of Daniel.

Released: August 4 Cast: Hayley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin Director: Kogonada Why it's great: Set against the real - life architectural wonders of Columbus, Indiana, this blissful drama pairs Casey (Richardson), a fresh - out - of - high - school librarian who studies town history by day and cares for her ex-meth-addict mother by night, and Jin (Cho), a Korean book translator who returns to the Midwest when his father, a prominent designer, takes ill.

Other Boston crime dramas set for release this year are Ben Affleck's Prohibition - era thriller, Live by Night, and Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, a»70s shoot»em up set in a warehouse starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer.

Lymelife (R for profanity, sexuality, violence and drug use) Coming - of - age drama set during an outbreak of Lyme disease in the late Seventies in a Connecticut town where an innocent 15 year - old's (Rory Culkin) life is turned upside - down when he falls in love with the girl next - door (Emma Roberts) at the same time his parents (Alec Baldwin and Jill Hennessy) separate and his soldier brother (Kieran Culkin) receives orders to ship out overseas.

Set in 1925 and based on David Grann's best - selling book of the same name, the true - life drama centers on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett (Hunnam), who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon.

Set in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, known as the «Mother Court,» the Shonda Rhimes - produced drama follows attorneys for the prosecution and defense «as they handle the most high profile and high stakes case in the country, all as their personal lives intersect.

Rampart (R for violence, sexuality and pervasive profanity) Woody Harrelson stars in this cop drama, set in 1999, as an LA police officer whose career and private life take a downward spiral after he is videotaped beating a suspected perpetrator.

As perfect as indies get, this intimate drama — set in an Indiana town known for its striking modernist architecture — showcased the year's most exquisite flirtation, between two intellectuals (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson) stuck at life's turning points.

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.

Despite a setting that literally springs life and death on a daily basis, «Scrubs» offers more comedy than drama, though it very skillfully blends both.

French director and co-writer Gilles Legrand shows great mastery of tone and pacing in his third feature, which begins life as a domestic drama set at a family - owned vineyard and slowly morphs into a tense thriller.

The Impossible (PG - 13 for brief nudity, disturbing images and intense disaster sequences) Fact - based drama, set in Thailand, recounting a family's real - life struggle for survival after a tsunami hits the oceanfront resort where they're vacationing.

Set in Indiana in 1817, this nature - adoring drama charts life of Abraham Lincoln as a young boy (played by newcomer Braydon Denney who barely utters a word), in a film that could alternately be called «Lincoln: Year One (A Malick Film).»

Having departed Universal's planned live - action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, it looks like Sofia Coppola has found her next project, with The Tracking Board reporting that the director is set to remake the 1971 drama The Beguiled.

Deadline (PG - 13 for mature themes) Crime drama, set in rural Alabama, recounting the real - life story of an idealistic newspaper reporter (Steve Talley) who, in spite of death threats, investigated the unsolved murder, 20 years earlier, of an African - American child.

Directing Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Charles Grodin, Adam Driver, and Amanda Seyfried, among just a few, Baumbach's cross-generation indie comedy looks set to paint my palette perfectly, with a steady mix of comedy, drama and good - old fashioned life questions.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

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.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

From Nowhere (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama, set in the Bronx, highlighting the ordeals of three, undocumented high school seniors — a Muslim Guinean (J. Mallory McCree), a depressed Dominican (Octavia Chavez - Richmond) and a Peruvian class valedictorian (Raquel Castro)-- living in fear of being apprehended by the authorities before being granted legal immigration status.

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.

We have a diverse set of premieres this week: a medical slice - of - life drama, a legal drama posing as a crime caper (or is it a crime caper posing as a...

Towleroad Stranger Things «Barb» actress Shannon Purser has come out as bisexual Variety Chris Pratt admits he was taken off guard by the harsh criticism of Passengers In Contention Fox Searchlight lines up multiple Oscar hopefuls a year after the Birth of a Nation debacle Playbill Anika Noni Rose set to play a who, along with her daughters, becomes the center of a hacking media storm in Assassination Nation Tracking Board Will Smith circling the genie role in the live action remake of Disney's Aladdin musical Playbill the Drama League Nominations for 2017 Film School Rejects on Hollywood's fascination with de-aging its stars and why, storytelling wise, this is generally a bad idea

FOR THE PEOPLE Picked up to series STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Paul William Davies (w, ep), Don Todd (ep), Shonda Rhimes (ep), Betsy Beers (ep), Tom Verica (d) LOGLINE: Set in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, aka «The Mother Court,» legal drama follows brand - new lawyers working on opposite sides — for both the defense and the prosecution — as they handle the most high - profile and high - stakes cases in the country, all as their personal lives intersect.

Disney already has a live - action «Lion King» in the works, but it remains to be seen whether transforming animated features into dramas with sets and actors can be an inspired, or essential, format for the future.

(In English and German with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Secret of the Grain (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, set in the seacoast town of Sete, revolving around the frustrating adjustment to life in France by a family of Arab immigrants headed by a divorced and depressed, 61 year - old patriarch (Habib Boufares) who dreams of opening his own restaurant.

Marius (Unrated) Romance drama, set in Marseille, where the seafaring son (Raphael Personnaz) of a tavern owner (Daniel Auteuil) finds himself torn between the love of a woman (Victoire Belezy) and the lure of a life on the ocean.

Warner Bros has debuted the second trailer for Ben Affleck's new crime drama Live by Night, set during the Prohibition times in the 1920s in Boston.

Having made dramas that were set in the small worlds of arthouse film financing (Father Of My Children) and French house music (Eden), she shifts her attention here to a year or so in the life of a philosophy teacher named Nathalie (Huppert) as so many of the things that she's taken for granted crumble away.