Sentences with phrase «life of a group of»

Summary: «A sitcom following the lives of a group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.»

It's also been the setting of Channel 5's programme Candy Bar Girls, which follows the lives of a group of young, hip lesbians living in Soho.

You may be a social butterfly and the life of your group of friends, but posting a picture of you and all your friends upfront is confusing.

Following the turbulent and troubled lives of a group of young Scottish heroin addicts, the film takes a sympathetic view of the problem of drug addiction - rather than chastising them for the situation they find themselves in, it is sympathetic to the addicts» struggle and the vicious circle that traps them and slowly destroys their lives.

An dramatic and comedic ensemble piece, the one - act traces several years in the lives of a group of characters working in an auto parts warehouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

A theatrical release for 2012 should be announced soon for the unconventional comedy, which adds song and dance to Stillman's usual smart, stylized dialogue as it explores the lives of a group of college girls led by Greta Gerwig.

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City haunts, skating, drinking, smoking, and deflowering the occasional virgin.

Rather than a disaster - predicting premonition, this time it's a cursed game that finds its way into the lives of a group of college kids, enjoying their final spring break in Mexico.

But they can't bring themselves to do it and, waiting for the vet to arrive, talk to the stranger about the legendary pup who brought light to the lives of a group of Aussie barflies.

Johnson executive produces half - hour series «Ballers,» which looks into the lives of a group of former and current football players, and leads the cast as a retired athlete living in Miami.

«Heaven Knows What» has a looser structure than even «Kids,» but directors Josh Safdie and Benn Safdie must have been intent on showing us not a classic narrative with loose connections tied up but a laid - back look at the several days or weeks in the lives of a group of young people addicted to heroin.

Sony low - budget division Screen Gems released his first feature in 2000, «The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy,» which followed the lives of a group of gay friends living in West Hollywood.

This movie follows the lives of a group of Suffragettes from east London, with Carey Mulligan as the main character.

A delightful film about the gossip - filled lives of a group of women in Louisiana (ostensibly set in the year of its release, 1989, though often it seems to be several decades earlier), Steel Magnolias is lovely, with a very fine cast led by Sally Field and featuring Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Julia Roberts and Daryl Hannah.

The League follows the lives of a group of 30 - somethings who all compete in the same fantasy football league.

Named after the famous parenting book, this film follows the lives of a group of couples all dealing with impending parenthood.

The (literally) hard - hitting «Intermission» maps out the intersecting lives of a group of Dubliners who are between partners, and follows their thoroughly coarse, often violent and generally unhinged quest for some sort of stable relationship.

In a similar vein to Toy Story, the day to day lives of a group of animals lead by the sensible tortoise Verne (Garry Shandling) are interrupted by the arrival of the savvy RJ (Bruce Willis), who very soon lures their attention to himself and the wonders of the human world beyond the «endless» hedge.

Language: English Genre: Musical / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Chris Columbus Actors: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson Plot: A year in the life of a group of bohemians living in the East Village of New York and their struggle with relationships, drugs, AIDS and life.

«Dog Park» is a glimpse into the lives of a group of friends seemingly obsessed with their K - 9 companions, so much so that their entire existence seems to revolve around their dogs.

Useless to discuss at length, The Chorus is essentially another in a line of literally dozens of films in which an inspirational teacher changes the lives of a group of troubled / lower - class / underestimated children through will, kindness, and a rogue spark of crinkly - eyed genius that irks to no end the evil dean / headmaster / school board / community.

Fame Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This update of the original 1980 film follows the lives of a group of students at the New York City High School of Performing Arts as they go through their Freshmen through Senior years.

The legend of the superhero teacher who steps into a crumbling, underresourced school and singlehandedly changes the lives of a group of indifferent or hostile students is a pervasive one in popular culture.

In The Recovering, Jamison offers insight into the lives of a group of writers — some well known, others less so — and their struggles with addiction and recovery.

Joanna Smith Rakoff's 2009 debut novel, A Fortunate Age, was an epic depiction of a decade in the life of a group of Generation X-ers.

In this complex, ambitious, and gripping first novel, Kermit Roosevelt vividly illustrates the subtle and stark effects of the law on the lives of a group of lawyers, and also on communities and private citizens.

It was always about the lives of a group of people.

There, in the past, the social and productive life of a group of people, sometimes made up of more families was carried out.

It's a point and click game where you explore the lives of a group of people traveling together (on and off, at least) through an odd world where bears live in office buildings and sometimes boats are full of cats.

However, it took some getting used to because of the switch away from the dark serial killer / cult magic storylines, focusing on the lives of a group of high school students trying to stop monsters in the night.

The script finds its origins in the controversial philosopher Ayn Rand's play Ideal (1934), in which the fictional actress Kay Gonda enters the lives of a group of admirers who profess that she embodies their deepest values.

Some of the key themes of Starr's work - from Hypnodreamdruff (1996) a 6 screen multimedia work about the intertwining lives of a group of lonely eccentric characters, to Big V (2004) a four screen piece about teenage sexuality and Catholicism - explore the relationship between history and memory; attempting to extract meaning from collapsing realities, she makes complex and obsessive investigations into invisible, lost or fragile phenomena.

Written by Harmony Korine and coproduced by Gus Van Sant, the film tells the story of a single day in the life of a group of sexually active teenagers in New York City and offered breakout roles for actors Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.

The exhibition is called Parque Industrial, taking its name from Patricia Galvão's 1933 proletarian novella, which portrays the lives of a group of female textile workers in the Brás industrial sector of São Paulo.

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Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

Have you witnessed this dynamic of a group souring on its most talkative members when the going gets tough in real life?

But to become a can't - live - without tool, an assistant «needs to be interesting enough to add to a group conversation,» says Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft's Future Social Experiences labs.

Mattel did this last year in their quest to evolve Barbie into a more true - to - life body type: They brought together a group of carefully selected female leaders, including Canadian icon Erica Ehm.

Those concerned about poverty, inequality, or living standards of the middle class (every politician's favourite group) should oppose Canada's milk tax.

It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

Toronto - based Avid Life Media, which owns a group of specialty online dating sites, confirmed this morning that it was the victim of an online attack that exposed a significant portion of its users» confidential data.

The $ 600 - million foundation actively contributes to a group of organizations that includes Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, World Wild Life Fund and Greenpeace.

Squawk Box Live is following the fallout of the miss in Chinese manufacturing data and the latest from European results season as Julius Baer and BT Group announce their earnings.

But tracing one's thought process with a dry - erase marker in front of a live, skeptical audience can create extra stressors for people from underrepresented groups.

There were even some potentially life - saving breakthroughs, like the machine vision system that can determine whether a mole is cancerous with more than 90 percent accuracy — beating out a group of dermatologists.

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

Police officers use bicycles to create cordons around a protest march by various groups, including «Black Lives Matter» and «Shut Down Trump and the RNC,» ahead of the convention.

Do these four functional exercises and you'll target the major muscle groups and build the kind of strength that makes everyday life easier.

«So now we know all of these three groups are passionate about hip - hop music and gaming, and now we know where we can show up authentically in their lives.