Not exact matches
An African -
American girl living in Brooklyn comes
of age in this
comedy - drama.
In films from the
age of 17,
American actor Ralph Graves was a handsome, strapping young man who was most comfortable in
comedy.
The director
of Trading Places and The Blues Brothers talks to Jason Solomons about
comedy, gaining an air
of respectability with
age and the making
of his horror classic, An
American Werewolf in London
Steve Carrell is a sweet, shy middle -
aged geek and the last
American virgin in The 40 - Year - Old Virgin (2005), the feature debut
of director Judd Apatow (who wrote the film with Carrell), an oddly sweet mix
of romantic
comedy and adolescent shenanigans, albeit with a slightly older cast.
This is the kind
of American independent
comedy - drama that restores our faith in the cinema, combining a talented cast, witty direction and a razor - sharp script to reboot the coming -
of -
age genre.
Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «
American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story
of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different
ages of a woman who keeps a diary
of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s
comedy about the world
of sports mascots.
That's the basic premise
of directors Chris and Paul Weitz's raunch fest
American Pie, a sweet coming
of age story wrapped in the same hilarious gross out
comedy of There's Something About Mary.
With his 1990 indie Slacker, he put Austin's independent filmmaking scene on the map, introducing the
American audiences to an eclectic cast
of local burnouts and philosophers, but Dazed and Confused, his more mainstream coming -
of -
age comedy, is the movie that really captures the relaxed cool
of the Lone Star State.
In the footsteps
of other raunchy coming -
of -
age comedies like Superbad and
American Pie where teens just want to have a lot
of sex comes Blockers, a movie about three parents who will stop at nothing to sabotage their daughters» sex lives.
Appropriate for a
comedy about swelling numbers, NBC's latest venture in the multi-camera arena has a statistical basis: Studies like the one released by the White House's Council
Of Economic Advisers in 2014, which found that 31 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 lived with their parents in 2014 — up from 28 percent in 200
Of Economic Advisers in 2014, which found that 31 percent
of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 lived with their parents in 2014 — up from 28 percent in 200
of Americans between the
ages of 18 and 34 lived with their parents in 2014 — up from 28 percent in 200
of 18 and 34 lived with their parents in 2014 — up from 28 percent in 2007.
Samuels» previous credits include the series regular role
of Grace in the first season
of Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens and Bonnie Lipton in
American Horror Story: Freak Show, along with the Lionsgate / CBS Films coming -
of -
age comedy, The Duff and The Nine Lives
of Chloe King, in which she starred as the title character.