Sentences with phrase «movie little darlings»

Although Nixon's starring role on the hugely popular series may have brought her to the attention of a new audience, observers of the New York theater had been watching the actor on and off Broadway since 1980, where she had performed in productions that included David Rabe's Hurlyburly, Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Angels in America, and Indiscretions, for which she earned a Tony nomination.Born in New York City on April 9, 1966, Nixon made her film debut in the 1980 movie Little Darlings.

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It was the early»80s, and Nixon soon fell into the pack of child actors making after - school specials and message movies like Little Darlings and My Body, My Child, in which she and Sarah Jessica Parker starred as the daughters of a woman — Vanessa Redgrave — agonizing over whether to abort a child with severe birth defects.

He's started to become a bit of an Oscar darling since his win for Little Miss Sunshine, in that if he's in a good movie, he's worth paying attention to.

The wunderkind's previous two movies — 2013 Sundance darling Fruitvale Station, about the killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man shot in the back by police while facedown on an Oakland subway platform; and 2015's Rocky reboot, Creed, about a young boxer who grows up in juvenile detention and learns to channel his anger in the ring — were both critical and box - office hits, leaving little doubt Coogler was up to the challenge.

Remember when Grumpy Cat was the fussy little darling of the Internet and we all hoped against vain hope that her Lifetime Christmas movie — starring the Internet's other fussy darling, Aubrey Plaza, in the titular cat role — might actually be worth watching?