Sentences with phrase «movie as teenagers»

Perhaps this is because some of those people who fell in love with the movie as teenagers have become movie critics themselves.

It's buttery, it's salty, and it evokes such awesome memories of date nights at the movies as a teenager and watching Friends re-runs with my girlfriends in the dorm.

i havent been able to watch the new «footloose»... how many times did we see it at the movies as teenagers???? we knew the short film b4 (showing our ages there!)

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Even after I came out as a teenager, it felt like I had to seek out portrayals of gay men by searching the internet or looking into more independently made, less accessible shows and movies.

One of the teenagers had evidently already seen the movie, and was eager to serve as plot guide for the others.

I would babysit for local families as a teenager for gas and movie money, and literally watch the clock for when the parents were slated to arrive home.

If you have a younger teenager, be sure to give her the opportunity to speak for herself in situations such as ordering in a restaurant or asking for movie tickets.

Kat Sullivan, a victim of sexual assault by her teacher as a teenager, took a cue from the movie Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri.

I loved reading Greek mythology as a teenager and still watch movies pertaining to Greek mythology.

She spoofed her own iconic persona by appearing in the 2001 comedy Not Another Teen Movie, and in 2008 she was cast as the mother in the Fox Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Ultra low - budget yet effective road movie as Alice, an awkward «New Hampshah» teenager, travels to Florida with a seemingly normal Southern couple near their fifties.

The Colleens fit a comically exaggerated stereotype of modern teenagers by remaining glued to their phones, constantly texting, tweeting and introducing the other characters in the movie via photos and hashtags that they've uploaded to Instagram — or, as it's known in these Canuck parts, Insta - Can.

It is also that very rare thing, a movie about teenagers where the characters actually seem like real teenagers, as opposed to mini posing adults.

Following a young woman as she awkwardly makes her way through her senior year of high school, Lady Bird explores popularity, family issues, jealousy, and numerous other issues that teenagers face on a daily basis, so if you go into this film having already experienced those years of your life, I guarantee there will be a section of this movie that you can relate to.

Katherine Heigl was an experienced movie actress by the time she was cast as one of the out - of - this - world teenagers on WB's Roswell in 1999.

Meet the Colleens (who thoroughly hate their job) in the first clip of Kevin Smith's new movie «Yoga Hosers,» which stars his daughter and Johnny Depp's daughter as the two teenagers.

«How to Deal» has some good things in it, including a performance by Allison Janney as a mother who is allowed to be more human and complicated than the average mom of a movie teenager.

In «Blockers,» Leslie Mann plays Lisa, the single mom of a high school senior named Julie (Kathryn Newton), a vivacious teenager who, as the movie opens, announces a newfound goal of losing her virginity on prom night.

Like a mix of Veronica Mars and Nora Charles, she plays Holly as a smart, resourceful teenager with the good heart the movie needs.

Julianne Hough (c.) and Kenny Wormald are shown in a scene from the remake of the 1984 movie «Footloose,» as a small Southern town learns to let its teenagers have fun.

That earlier movie, which is now rather erroneously being referred to in the promotional material as a «classic,» was studded with soon - to - be Top Ten Hits and had a youth - pandering storyline: Because of a fatal accident that killed five teenagers after a night partying, the town council of a small southern community, led by a fire - breathing preacher, outlaws teen dancing.

Here, she talks about her new movie, October Baby, a faith - based morality play inspired by the true story of a troubled teenager who discovered she survived an attempted abortion as a 24 week - old fetus.

The movie, based on John Green's best - seller, features the lovely Shailene Woodley as Hazel Grace Lancaster a teenager with cancer who plays every scene with an oxygen tank and a nose apparatus.

I came to the city as a teenager in the late»70s, too late for the New Yorker Theater itself but right on time for the Cinema Studio on 66th and Broadway, where I spent half of my student life seeing and re-seeing movies like Wenders's The American Friend and Godard's aforementioned return to 35 mm feature filmmaking, and the Metro on the corner of Broadway and 100th Street, where I saw Oshima's early films for the first time.

Rating: Hoopla Factor: As an honest and mature portrayal of a young woman facing some difficult times, Juno is simply a cut above most movies about teenagers.

I had assumed that the Minions were unnatural creatures, perhaps the result of a genetic experiment by their supervillain master Gru (voice of Steve Carell), who makes a brief appearance as a teenager near the end of this movie in order to justify its existence in the world of the movie's predecessors.

Daggers, however, is director Zhang Yimou's follow - up to the callowly beautiful Hero and, like that movie and a number of others (Ashes of Time, Bride with the White Hair, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Kill Bill, Zatoichi, Warriors of Heaven and Earth, and, in a way, Goodbye Dragon Inn), it belongs to a martial arts / art - house genre of films by hip young directors upgrading genres they loved as teenagers - «martial arts plus.»

«The notion that all teenagers and twenty - somethings can't sit two hours without texting is condescending... Real movie fans today are the same now as they were in the»20s, the»70s and any generation... They want great theatrical presentation, and they want to lose themselves in the movie.

I can find no evidence officially confirming a link between this movie and that overdramatic, explosive cartoon teenager, but she has the same name (spelled differently) and haircut as this film's teen daughter and, of course, her father is clearly intended to sound like Jimmy Stewart.

In «Home Movies», Howard talks about three short 8 mm westerns he made as a teenager, and those three films («The Deed of Daring Do», «Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore, and Death», and «Old Paint») are included here.

As a teenager, I was in love with both of these movies, though I haven't seen them in years.

Based on the wildly trading cards, «The Garbage Pail Kids Movie» stars Mackenzie Astin (Iron Will, Wyatt Earp) as a perfectly nice teenager who discovers the Kids... to his great disgust!

It should, as nearly any movie in which a teenager finds joy in a creative zone offers a disapproving parent as well.

Playing like a boozy, floozy Antipodean mash - up of TV staple The Wonder Years and Paul Mazursky's middle class mores romp Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Elliott casts the terrific Atticus Robb as his adolescent alter - ego Jeff Marsh, a sensitive teenager whose obsessions know only two forms — movies and girl - next - door Melly (Darcey Wilson), an equally ill - at - ease tweenager barely coping with the madness that unfolds daily in their cul - de-sac existence.

After a surprisingly entertaining intro film and an awful sequel (directed by Jack Sholder — with Wishmaster 2 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, he did his best to fatally harpoon two budding franchises), Wishmaster 3 staggers onto the direct - to - video market with an astonishingly dull start that establishes Diana as a typically wounded horror movie scream queen and the film itself as just another dead - teenager flick.

The movie introduces an engaging newcomer, Cailee Spaeny, as a teenager who likes building Jaegers in her spare time.

OK, the not so good stuff: I am beginning to despise 3 - D (it adds nothing, while diminishing the brightness of colors); Jotunheim (land of the Frost Giants) is plain, gray and boring; Natalie Portman, fresh off an Oscar is just terrible as an astro - physicist with a teenager - style crush on Thor; Tom Hiddleston as Loki is one of the weakest villains I have ever seen in a super - hero / comic book movie; Rene Russo must not have read the script prior to accepting her role — she has about 3 lines and is totally wasted.

And while the subject matter of children and young teenagers fighting one another to the death may lead some parents to think twice about bringing their own kids to the picture, the movie is sure to top the box office as well as produce sequels (two books remain to be adapted) in the future.

Low - budget horror fare like Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, for example: Starring Pretty Little Liars» Lucy Hale and Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey, the film looks like an appealingly unserious blend of the Final Destination and Ouija movies with a dash of It Follows, as a gang of teenagers starts dying one by one in diabolically clever ways after playing «a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare.»

That's not to say the movie brings it up directly, because, to be honest, it doesn't even seem as if the movie understands the implications of the relationship between the teenager and the creature.

He's also a great dad, to a teenager (an ebullient Grace Van Patten) about to go off to college as the movie opens.

Seeing that movie back - to - back with «Lady Bird,» if anything, only underscored the actress» versatility: Whereas Gerwig's film casts her as a 21st century American teenager eager to fall in love and shed her virginity, «On Chesil Beach» locks her into the role of Florence, a British woman who embodies the buttoned - down timidity of the stifling, pre-sexual-revolution 1960s.

Based on 1937's Stella Dallas, Stella follows Bette Midler's title character as she's forced to contend with single parenthood after the baby's father (Stephen Collins» Stephen) moves on - with the movie detailing the rocky relationship that eventually ensues between Stella and her daughter Jenny (played, as an older teenager, by Trini Alvarado).

Filmmaker Bruce McDonald has infused The Husband with a subdued character - study sort of vibe that initially holds some promise, as the movie benefits from McCabe - Lokos» memorable turn as the beleaguered protagonist and from the ongoing mystery of Henry's interest in that aforementioned teenager.

But if we're going to talk about Lady Bird as a gorgeously rendered movie about what it's like to be a teenager, we have to talk about the one character who so perfectly puts Lady Bird herself into context: Laurie Metcalf as her mother, Marion.

The tattooed wunderkind burst onto the movie scene 11 years ago with the tale of a smack - talking pregnant teenager - and a résumé that included a stint as a stripper.

The 23 - year - old actress stars as teenager Christine in the new movie by Greta Gerwig, and the coming - of - age drama has been nominated for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards.

Snagging a nomination for best dramatic motion picture as well as nods for actors Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, this coming - of - age movie centering around a teenager and an adult graduate student was based on 2007's «Call Me by Your Name,» the debut novel of Andre Aciman.

Sasha Lane's lead performance as a roving teenager is every bit as memorable as LaBeouf's, shepherding an extraordinary road movie into the promised land.

Catherine Keener and James LeGros excel as a grieving couple, and Mikey Madison (riveting as the eldest daughter in FX's «Better Things,») is so moving as Kathleen, a mourning teenager, that we want to give her her own movie.