Sentences with phrase «of teenage friendship»

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future is a multilayered, genre - defying book; it's also about the changing dynamics of teenage friendship, the uncertainty of post-high school plans and the dark and bizarre glimpses of a misogynist, dystopian future that Glory and Ellie begin to see after drinking a petrified bat (really).

(Bella) A chilling, blackly funny novel with a surreal edge about the intensity of teenage friendship.

But «more with less» is a rewarding concept when it comes to indie movies, and writer - director Peter Livolsi's «The House of Tomorrow» delivers just that in a brisk 90 minutes, telling a sweet, tart, and intelligently life - affirming story of teenage friendship and outsider spirit with a supremely light touch, and a winning collection of performances.

With spot - on 1980s references, Hendrix perfectly captures the angst of teenage friendships and the stagnant air of suburbia in this comic horror novel.

Not exact matches

Teenage girls, women and even older men are writing to the Parkland school shooter and sending photographs — some suggestive — tucked inside cute greeting cards and attached to notebook paper with offers of friendship and encouragement.

Her latest stars Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks, and Annette Bening in a coming of age story about the effect of the Cuban missile crisis on a teenage friendship.

But no, this is a film about a teenage boy who is thrust into a friendship with a classmate who has an advanced case of leukemia.

Given Stoltz's experience grasping the genre back in the 80s, he adapts such a beloved narrative and makes this film an all too familiar teenaged tale of love and friendship, but for this generation — so minus the tomboy drummer and working class mechanic with the foggy lens of 80s rom - coms.

An obsessive friendship between two teenage girls unfolds with equal amounts of tenderness and terror in «Breathe,» a modest but acutely observed and affecting adolescent portrait that suggests a chaste «Blue Is a Warmest Color» by way of «Single White Female.»

The script gives the male friendship the language of a teenage romance, which works — both comedically and not.

As it turns out, this movie is really about the budding friendship between two girls and their joint overcoming of clique - fueled teenage drama.

Two upper - class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart.

Thoroughbreds Filmmaker Cory Finley freshens the trope of toxic teenage female friendships just enough to be distinctive, with help from actresses (Anya Taylor - Joy, Olivia Cooke) who exhibit intelligence and curiosity while their characters compare busted moral compasses.

In perhaps the most excessive metaphor in cinema this year, the threat of nuclear holocaust has been used to represent the disintegration of a lifelong friendship between two teenage girls.

Thoroughbreds is a strange, stilted American drama about two teenage girls in Connecticut awkwardly renewing their friendship after some years of separation.

Niobe Way, Ed.D.» 94, author of Deep Secrets: Boys» Friendship and the Crisis of Connections reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys during adolescence yet explains as boys become men, they become distrustful, lose these friendships, and feel isolated and alone.

Teenage life online: The rise of the instant - message generation and the Internet's impact on friendships and family relationships.

Here, as in his previous books, he also shows that for teenage guys, vulnerability and bravado go hand - in - hand, that friendships and father - son relationships don't have to be treacly to be real and vital, and that buying condoms may, in fact, be simultaneously the most embarrassing and hilarious rite of passage that a young man ever has to undertake... (Reviewed by Norah Piehl).

This by turns funny and heartbreaking first novel tells the story of three families and their teenage children living on either side of California, following their loves, heartaches, and friendships during a memorable moment of American history.

Her debut novel is one of the buzziest of the summer, as a sheltered girl and a teenage maid strike up a friendship against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990s Colombia.

In shimmering, almost poetic language, author Rebecca Hahn tells an epic tale of love and death and life within the deceptively simple story of a forbidden friendship between a mortal teenage girl and the immortal life - weavers of Greek mythology.

Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman (Harper, May 17) The adult debut from young adult author Wasserman (The Waking Dark) sinks into the dangerous mire of obsessive teenage friendships through the tale of Lacey and Dex, two girls who play with the idea of revenge... and go too far.

Sweet valley tapped into all of the major events of teenage life: love, heartbreak, tragedy, friendship, family... That's why Sweet Valley sold in twenty - five different languages, it relates to everyone.

Three teenage New Yorkers — Claire, Peter, and Jasper — searching for the meaning of the 9/11 bombing find it in new friendships and the emerging romantic relationship between the two boys.

The paranormal elements of the first game have been bravely binned, so Before the Storm is «only» about the happenstance friendship (or perhaps even more) of two teenage girls, full of fleeting slices of life that can be as absolutely awesome as they can stink to high heavens.

Six teenage girls are standing one after the other and almost look identical, their resemblance pointing to their being part of a «team»: either friendship, sisterhood and or simply sharing a delicate age growing up from being a child to young woman.