Sentences with phrase «of a young girl whose»

An action fantasy set in the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.

It tells the story of a young girl whose astrophysicist father is held captive by forces on a planet deep in the universe far, far away.

The film is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.

Loaded with atmosphere and nostalgia,» The Lady in White» is part «Wonder Years,» part ghost story and part murder mystery, as a 9 - year - old boy (Lukas Haas) investigate the murder of a young girl whose ghost he's seen in his school in this story that takes place in 1962.

«Sucker Punch is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.

As the synopsis says, Sucker Punch is an «epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.

Synopsis: Sucker Punch is an epic action fantasy that takes us into the vivid imagination of a young girl whose dream world provides the ultimate escape from her darker reality.

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The item got passed around from site to site, and a consensus began to form: The desperate not - quite - It Girl was Gretchen Mol, whose movie roles were starting to dry up; the new target was Blake Lively, beginning to transition from TV to film; and in the center of it all, between two beautiful young women whose careers he held in the palm of his hands, was Harvey Weinstein.

This month's spotlight is on MEDIAGIRLS, an organization whose mission is to teach girls and young women — mainly in underserved schools in the Boston area — how to harness the power of media for positive change.

If you care so much for women and pedophilia, why aren't you protesting against Muslims, whose scripture allows for marriage and intercourse with girls as young as 9 years old and multiple women and allows for the beating of their wives.

«The extent to which you have a Minister of Gender in whose hands our young girls [will be placed].

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The former Disney star, whose most well - known acting role is of «Wizards of Waverly Place» main character Alex Russo, was able to prove her relatability for her targeted audience, younger girls and teens.

Young women, in particular, are profoundly influenced by films that follow girl protagonists whose stories transport them to new cultures, environments and character circumstances outside of their personal experiences within their familiar realm.

Her facial expressions are spot - on, whether she is the miserable bloke sitting at the end of the bar, the innocent and youthful space cadet or the heartbroken young girl, whose dreams are crushed due to her bizarre condition.

Pixar's Inside Out goes inside the head of Riley — a young girl whose family moves from the Midwest when her father gets a new job in San Francisco — as we meet her emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith).

«When Marnie Was There — The Studio Ghibli production recalls the beautifully hand - drawn production of famed animator Hayao Miyazaki, in this adaptation of a British ghost story by Joan G. Robinson about a young girl whose new friend may be more spirit than girl.»

What It's About: «A young girl from Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, with the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion.»

The film chronicles the life of Adele, a young girl whose life is turned upside down when she meets and gets into a relationship with Emma, a blue - haired art student.

In Chicago, he makes friends with a group of kids, including a 14 - year - old girl named Izabella, played by a talented young actress, Isabela Moner, whose emotions are close to the surface.

A mixed bag, then, Whisper of the Heart is another nice coming - of - age story for a young girl by an important artist (Miyazaki) whose great warmth seems to flow from a desire to mentor, whether the subject be his daughter or the promising young artists he hopes to mold into successors.

Distinguished by O'Toole's tour - de-force portrayal of an ageing cad, Venus is a wryly amusing and extremely affecting portrait of a man reborn, whose adoration of a girl young enough to be his granddaughter is both pathetic and touching.

In one we are introduced to Kat (Kiernan Shipka of «Mad Men»), a young woman at an all girls boarding school whose parents haven't picked her up for a long, holiday break.

The story centers on a young girl named Regan, whose mother enlists the help of priests to help save her possessed daughter.

Ostensibly a remake / reimagining / updating of Hitch's own Shadow of a Doubt, Stoker centers on a young pubescent girl, whose father has recently died under «mysterious» circumstances.

She briefly takes a room in the apartment of two slightly younger dudes (Michael Zegen and Girls» Adam Driver) whose perfectly curated digs and carefree demeanor, she soon learns, are at least in part parentally subsidized.

His aspiring Aussie actress girlfriend Claire (Alice Eve) prostitutes herself with Cole (Ray Liotta), a green card application adjudicator, whose wife (Ashley Judd), is an immigration defense attorney battling for the rights of a young African girl.

Back at home for the funeral, he is reunited with his industrious older brother Paul (Corey Stoll, House of Cards), buttoned up married sister Wendy (Tina Fey, 30 Rock) and flaky, self - involved younger brother Philip (Adam Driver, Girls)-- all under the imperious eye of pop psychologist / author mother, Hilary (Jane Fonda), whose new set of boobs only adds to the dysfunctional family's impending group breakdown.

Alan Arkin, however, is not a bad fit as their father, whose attraction to Amanda Seyfried's lonely diner waitress — who is 52 years younger than her co-star — is supposed to be poignant when it really is downright creepy, even if the mention of Charlie Chaplin's attraction to a waifish blind girl in «City Lights» supposedly makes it OK.

«Rectify» centers on Daniel Holden (unknown 20 - year acting veteran Aden Young), a man convicted of a teenage girl's rape and murder, whose death sentence becomes vacated when DNA evidence clears him of the crimes to which he had confessed nineteen years ago.

The true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.

She is effectively playing a number of different Sophies: the prewar girl, terrified of her reactionary, antisemitic father; the young woman being herded into the camp; the fierce, self - hating survivor whose every ounce of energy is devoted to suppressing the memory of her «choice»; and then the postwar woman of mystery, who finds herself sharing her life with a damaged bully, who loves her in his own way.

It's also a sharp left turn for Driver, whose stilted hipsterdom in Noah Baumbach's «While We're Young» came as a solid representation of his career to date; of his rise from HBO's millennial - driven «Girls.»

The hook of the film, with its young girl trapped in a car whose only lifeline is at the other end of a cell phone, is certainly a grabber, and does maintain a modicum of interest even if it often feels like we don't learn much more than we had by watching the all - too - revealing trailer.

It is a coming - of - age story about a young girl named Jenny (Carey Mulligan) whose father is very determined that she goes to Oxford.

Margaret Qualley («The Leftovers», and real life daughter of Andie MacDowell) stars as Cathleen, a 17 year old girl whose small town life included parents who divorced when she was younger.

His past catches up to him once again when a mysterious Japanese girl named Yukio (Rila Fukushima) comes to whisk Logan away to Tokyo to pay his respects to her master, Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi), a dying billionaire whose life he once saved as a young soldier during the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki.

Among the hilariously eccentric pieces of Baltimore white trash featured: a sweets - obsessed young girl named Little Chrissy (Lauren Hulsey), who guzzles Jolt cola and eats sugar straight from the sack; her mother Joyce (Mary Kay Place), a thrift - shop owner who enjoys offering her fashion «expertise» to the homeless; Chrissy's older sister Tina (Martha Plimpton), who works at a gay male strip bar known for «teabagging» (don't ask); and Chrissy's grandmother Memama (Jean Schertler), whose sacred statue of the Virgin Mary not - so - miraculously «speaks» (she makes the voice herself).

The best thing about the film is that it heralds the arrival of a young and powerful new female director, the formidable Ana Lily Amirpour (featured on our Best Of 2014: The 20 Breakthrough Directors Of The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her feature debuof a young and powerful new female director, the formidable Ana Lily Amirpour (featured on our Best Of 2014: The 20 Breakthrough Directors Of The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her feature debuOf 2014: The 20 Breakthrough Directors Of The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her feature debuOf The Year list), whose magnetic personality is on display in a new Vice documentary on the making of «Girl,» her feature debuof «Girl,» her feature debut.

Liyana documents the inspiring story of a young girl in rural Swaziland, whose parents die from AIDS, and whose little twin brothers are stolen by child traffickers after she and her frail grandmother are assaulted and abused.

12:15 am (20th)-- TCM — Broken Blossoms A few years after D.W. Griffith's controversial Birth of a Nation and epic Intolerance, he made this much smaller, much quieter film about a Chinese man (the non-Chinese Richard Barthelmess — and no, Griffith has not quite got over the racism that plagued Birth of a Nation) who becomes enamored with a young girl (Lillian Gish) whose father abuses her.

Taylor Kitsch (John Carter) and Aaron Taylor - Johnson (Kick - Ass) star as Chon and Ben, two young drug dealers whose life in the Californian sun is completed by Blake Lively's (The Town) free - wheeling O, a girl who's never too far away from a bikini and whose open relationship with the pot - growing surfer bros makes for the most curious of sun - kissed twentysomething existences.

One the one hand there is a young girl of faith whose world has had its foundations torn out, left to try and piece it back together.

The game's main player takes on the role of Briana, a young girl from the future whose job is to piece together the declaration and help save democracy for the future.

I was also surprised — and delighted — by the mischief of El Deafo, another young adult read, about a girl whose Phonic Ear, a hearing aid, gives her superpowers, some of which will make you laugh.

It's the story of a young boy whose life is changed entirely when a mecha crashes in his backyard, piloted by one of the prettiest (and strangest) girls he's ever seen.

And finally the harmonica turns up in Southern California in 1942 in the hands of Ivy Maria Lopez, a young Mexican - American girl whose family's fortune changes after a Japanese family is sent to an internment camp.

The concluding novella, «Cockfighter,» is a triumph of storytelling in which a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy and drawn - out battle against the local delinquent and violent hoodlum whose family's vicious stranglehold on the villagers has passed down unchecked through generations.

Inside Singer's lives a clever young girl named Solemn Redvine, whose family prefers to keep their distance from their neighbors — with the exception of Solemn's father, whose occasional wanderings lead Solemn to believe the infant child of a couple down the way may be her half - sibling.

There is the young black soldier ready to die for the love of a girl whose superior social class puts her beyond his reach; the crippled son of a southern magistrate, entranced by the young technology of the moving image; and the educated son of a Filipino land owner who turns from aspiring priest to committed revolutionary, and a dozen or so more.