Sentences with word «moppet»

Naturally, he finally finds a reason to live again when he becomes bodyguard to an adorable little moppet named Pita (Dakota Fanning)... and naturally his ray of light is snuffed out when some Very Bad People do Something Really Horrible to his beloved charge.

Its constantly - mentioned Frankenstein's monster allegory is defeated, too, when our good Dr. Victor -LRB-- not - Frankenstein)(Jeremy Childs) turns out to have a couple of adorable moppets of his own, thus negating, generally, the read of the Shelley source material that masculine procreation is spawned by «natural» childlessness.

This brown - eyed moppet with a camera around her neck is hot on the trail of her best friend, «M,» who has been abducted by the dastardly Fat the Cat that longs to create what he describes as a «Dog - Free - World.»

Crowd shots during his performances look less like dancing teens and more like a horde of orcs from The Lord of the Rings under the spell of Sauron's eye in the form of this wispy - haired moppet.

Plus it's a band - together - fight - and - make - up family dramedy, including a big - eyed moppet counseled by a profane grandfather who tries to pump up his spirits: it's the Alan Arkin role from Little Miss Sunshine, played by — wait for it... Alan Arkin.

In the street outside, a passel of dusky, grinning moppets jived in wild circles singing, «Sugar in the mornin», Sugar in the evenin», Sugar at suppertime...»

Moppets!!

Encourage your kids to get active and stay active with the Little Moppet Treadmill!

See that adorable, curly headed moppet in the picture above?

«There was a ubiquitous television advert for sweets in the 1980s where the catch line featured an endearing moppet saying «Don't forget the fruit gums mum!»

Smith's colorlessness as a leading man was used to excellent advantage in producer Val Lewton's Cat People movies of the 1940s, wherein Smith played the handsome but clueless husband of feline - possessed Simone Simon (in Cat People) and the unimaginative father of overimaginative moppet Anne Carter (in Curse of the Cat People).

It's more of a problem that the homely street - corner carol singers and rosy - cheeked moppets are every bit as disturbing to behold as the grotesque hallucinations.

Tom and Kate (Bonnie Hunt) are the parents of twelve adorable biological children, their amazing biological profligacy matched only by the good humour they bring to raising an empire of cuddly moppets.

Worse, after Rachel's sepulchral moppet Aidan (honorary Culkin, David Dorfman) whispers «don't stop, don't stop,» and once the killer bucks have had their way with Rachel's sensible import, Rachel stops the car, turns to her kid, and says, «You said «Don't stop»!

We're meant to be thrilled, our appetites instantly whetted, especially since the movie will shortly skip back to the beginning of Barnum's life and drag us through several scenes of an adorable moppet dreaming big dreams that will someday come true.

First there were the complaints from those stick - in - the - muds who moaned that Annie must be a fair - skinned ginger moppet (one such is introduced and then rudely brushed aside in this film's opening moments) rather than an African American.

It takes a lot for me to start cooing about cutesy cartoon moppets, but these three (little Agnes in particular) are the most adorable animated characters I've seen in years.

At the end of the process there is of course the Big Contest where moral victories are won, if not actual ones, and there is the eleventh - hour crisis solved by an inspirational coming together (most often demonstrated in mass desk - standing), all capped by a heartfelt coda that shows a new direction for our rumpled hero and the little moppets who had the foresight to trust him with their lives and futures.

Marc Webb's new film, Gifted, stars Chris Evans as Frank Adler, a former Boston University philosophy professor trying to raise his adorable, toothless, number - crunching moppet niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) in the boonies of Florida, as far away as possible from the elitist misery...

The movie joins him in his advancing years, as Asa Butterfield «s title moppet discovers him running a shop during his mystery - laden quest involving a mechanical man.

A comic riff on The Omen for those who missed 2013's Hell Baby, it conflates the usual fear of life change with a more garden - variety terror over flesh - eating moppets.

The two boys are cute moppets (Oakes Fegley, pictured below) but don't have much to do but hide out for days in the American Museum of Natural History dodging adults in a wholly unbelievable way.

It's been three decades since the last time we saw Annie on the big screen and with a winking poke at the traditionally (white) red - headed and cheerful moppet we're used to it lets you know right off the bat that this isn't the previous generation's Annie; it's a modernized, Twitter - ized and street smart update.

The curly blonde moppet goes by «Baby June» (Suzanne Cupito, more recently known as Morgan Brittany) and then «Dainty June» (Ann Jillian).

Or that would be the case if the picture weren't fashionably intoxicated with the Japanese conceit of the scary little girl ghost, this time named Jodie (Isabel Conner) and commissioned to befriend moppet Chelsea (Chloe Grace Moretz), whom no one will believe until it's almost too late.

Plus, you get to see a bunch of demonic little moppets get whacked.

The two couples separate and find unfulfilling love in the arms of joke paramours because real contenders for affection and respect are complicated to write and resolve; and in the end, all these people we've decided we don't like, much less identify with, end up back together so as to breed adorable, Annie Hall - dressed, poop - obsessed moppets.

It's inevitable that the latest all - singing - sorta - all - dancing extravaganza from Adam Shankman (Hairspray), Rock of Ages, based upon the 2006 Broadway musical of the same name, will get compared to Glee — what with them sharing an affinity for bright - eyed moppets singing songs in squeaky, polished voices — but this being a big screen event audiences should be hoping for something more.

The film's lead family is as thin as wallpaper, giving talented actors like Hendricks and Henderson precious little to do besides play concerned mom and dad to their more resourceful moppets.

And while McCarthy is fine here, the picture would really be nothing without stellar supporting work, including Kristen Bell («Veronica Mars»), Peter Dinklage («Pixels,» but better known for «Game of Thrones» TV series), Tyler Labine («Tucker and Dale vs. Evil»), Cedric Yarbrough («The Goldbergs» TV series) and moppet Ella Anderson («The Possession of Michael King»).

There's that baker and his wife, in this case James Corden and Emily Blunt, wizened crone Meryl Streep (in blue fright wig and yellow dentures) issuing them the shopping list, plus Jack (Daniel Huddleston, aka the chirpy moppet from Les Mis), Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford)- quite a formidable kid shoplifting buns - and Anna Kendrick's Cinderella, who wants to ask the advice of her mum, buried beneath a willow tree, on how to snag a ticket to the ball that night.

Reported to the authorities by his evil mother - in - law, Desmond's moppet issue is taken into custody by the Catholic Church and the Irish court.

Also a likely nominee: Quvenzhané Wallis, the adorable nine - year - old moppet at the center of breakout Sundance hit Beasts of the Southern Wild.

At the more glamorous side of the spectrum, The Lord of the Rings» Miranda Otto will play the Cruiser's wife and (presumably) mother of moppet Dakota Fanning.

Submitted for your approval, the Rolf family: patriarch Ben (Reed), matriarch Marion (Black), irritating moppet David (Lee Montgomery, the obvious inspiration for Giovanni Frezza's appalling performance in The House by the Cemetery), and Aunt Elizabeth (Davis).

Based upon Harold Gray's popular comic strip «Little Orphan Annie,» the Depression - era story revolved around an optimistic moppet, her dog Sandy and her benefactor, billionaire Oliver «Daddy» Warbucks.Updated to the present with a multicultural cast, the sassy, spunky tyke (Quvenzhane Wallis) is temporarily adopted by a cynical cellphone mogul, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), as a ploy for voter appeal when he runs for Mayor of New York City.

This time around, there aren't really any precocious moppets with dry delivery and misplaced gloom.

Mother Nature's the star, though Tree Of Life's exceptional moppet performances are heralded by 16 - year - old Linda Manz, guilelessly narrating the grown - ups» (including Richard Gere) fall into a treacherous three - way romance.

Bonus points for dumping him with plot moppets that actually do impact his worldview.

These are incised with a nightmare world of child abuse and violence, a landscape of tower blocks and burned out cars stalked by murderous moppets in Kate Greenaway frilly dresses.

«All the birds are out,» muttered a beanie - clad moppet, exhaling a long drag on the Whitney Museum's frozen stoop Wednesday evening.

If you know Haneke's work — his previous film at the time, Funny Games, had depicted the torture and murder of a bourgeois French mom and dad plus their fair - haired moppet — the image is more than a little disturbing.