Sentences with phrase «of teenaged actors»

Led by Olivia DeJonge (The Visit) as the responsible babysitter Ashley and Levi Miller (Pan) as the 12 - year - old in love with his babysitter, this group of teenaged actors masterfully deliver a very, very dark comedy full of bite and blood.

Not exact matches

To begin with, how painful is it to watch actors as intelligent as Naomi Watts and Robin Wright mug their way through the story of two hard - bodied middle - aged Australian besties hitting the sack with one another's teenaged sons?

Meg Murry, the story's insecure teenage hero, in search of her missing NASA - scientist dad, has been cast with a biracial actor (Storm Reid, charming in her gentler moments), and the decision is of a piece with the morphing material.

Following the summer releases of Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, and his two Netflix series, BoJack Horseman and Flaked, the actor is now lending his star power and emcee skills to the new Audible series The Comedy Show Show.

While the other actors don't have much to do, each one of them — even Mildred's suffering teenage son, worn down by her campaign, and Dixon's cynical mother — registers a mark.

The town of Ebbing might as well be called Character Actor Central, as roles are richly filled by John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage, Lucas Hedges (2016's «Manchester by the Sea») and Caleb Landry Jones playing, respectively, Mildred's ex-husband Charlie, Mildred's pool - playing buddy James, Mildred's teenage son Robbie, and Ebbing Advertising owner Red Welby.

There is nothing conspicuously revolutionary about the «The Kids Are All Right», a sleek, smart, enormously entertaining film about a middle - aged lesbian couple (played by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) whose teenage kids seek out the sperm donor who is their biological father (Mark Ruffalo); it has big - name actors, a sun - dappled Los Angeles setting, and the feel of a classic Hollywood comedy at its snappiest.

Bolstered by a strong supporting cast of older comedy actors (Thomas Hayden Church and Lisa Kudrow appear as teachers), she takes what could have been tricky subject matter and instead creates a mature dialogue about American teenage relationships.

Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor at Cannes for his role as a brutal enforcer out to rescue a teenage girl in this thriller from the writer - director of We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Desplechin regular Mathieu Amalric returns as the same academic from the filmmaker's 1996 My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, though the actor quickly takes a nostalgic supporting role as the movie shifts into teenage flashbacks that alternately take the tone of domestic melodrama, spy thriller and gushing romance.

Casting directors are looking for teenage actors to play a younger version of Denzel Washington and Joe Canewell's daughter.

Unfortunately, since he isn't the one in peril, Scheider doesn't always appear, necessitating the crew of unknown teenage actors to take center stage for long stretches, and they aren't nearly as effective.

Their BEST ACTOR AWARD went to the much talked - about Timothée Chalamet in a breakout performance as the teenage son of a professor who falls in love with a visiting grad student one summer in Northern Italy.

The film features a stellar cast led by Justin Long (Yoga Hosers, Tusk, Accepted), Melanie Lynskey («Castle Rock,» «Togetherness,» Heavenly Creatures), Tony Hale («Arrested Development,» «Veep»), Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station, The Belko Experiment), Carrie Preston («Claws,» «True Blood»), and powerful performances from teenage actors Arman Darbo (Defenders of Life) and Sawyer Barth (Super Dark Times).

It was adapted into a 1986 movie starring Sean Connery as Brother William Baskerville and a teenage Christian Slater as his assistant, the novice Adso, in one of the actor's first big - screen roles.

As a teenage girl obsessed with selfies trapped inside the body of a rotund, middle aged man with more bodily hair than you'd ever probably want, Jack Black is impeccably wonderful while Bobby Cannavale (one of the best actors working in film today) has the time of his life hamming it up as the villain of the piece.

Main character Chiron is played by three different actors over the course of the film: Alex R. Hibbert plays his younger self, Ashton Sanders plays his teenage years and Trevante Rhodes plays Chiron in his adult prime.

The couple, who had gotten married in 2010 and had the first of their two children in 2011, had made a few films together, including 1992's «Jamón Jamón» — Bardem's first starring role, in which a teenaged Cruz also appeared — and Woody Allen's 2008 comedy «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» for which Cruz won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award a year after Bardem had won his own Best Supporting Actor Oscar for «No Country for Old Men.»

What sounds goofy and engaging coming from Kevin Hart or Dwayne Johnson is significantly less so coming from less experienced actors, and it's the scenes featuring the characters» original teenage selves that really highlight the try - hard nature of the script.

More than a dozen men and teenage boys accused actor Kevin Spacey of sexual harassment (a tort), statutory rape and attempted rape.

21 - year - old Spider - Man: Homecoming actor Tom Holland has been the butt of many jokes concerning his teenage looks.

Steve Rose: The actor on why he's happy inside Frank Sidebottom's fibreglass head for Lenny Abrahamson's comedy about an eccentric band — and his own teenage fantasies of rock stardom

Casting directors are looking for an actor to play the a teenaged version of Mike Tyson.

BRIDESMAIDS star Kirsten Wiig and True Blood actor Alexander Skarsgard are set to star opposite in the coming - of - age film THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRof - age film THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIROF A TEENAGE GIRL.

Finally, he ended up one of the few studio - system, Hollywood character actors a teenage Black kid in the» hood could immediately identify.

In truth, the actor's best work can be found in his non-nominated performance in Rebel, a superb study of teenage angst that still retains its power despite the number of inferior rip - offs that followed in its wake.

The 18 - year - old actor was killed off The Walking Dead last season after eight years on the AMC zombie drama, where he played the teenaged son of Alexandria leader Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln).

Probably the shining performance in the film is teenage actor Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk), who simultaneously is able to come of as sympathetic and creepy, with his somewhat autistic behaviour.

Taking a brief respite from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King and James Herbert, teenage me elected to check out a pair of books by actor - turned - author Tom Tryon — and was floored by the results.

From Annie (Kristen Wiig) arguing with a teenage girl in Bridesmaids, to a monologue by Jason Statham's Rick Ford in last year's Spy, Feig has an insane amount of patience and simply lets his actors bounce off of one another — cutting the best material into the final film in post-production.

«Hellion offers a startling and memorable portrait of adolescent life in downscale East Texas suburbia, along with a white - hot breakthrough performance from teenage actor Josh Wiggins.»

Ex-Home and Away actor Rhys Wakefield however does a decent job as Josh, the typical neglected teenage son character of the man leading the expedition, Frank played by Richard Roxburgh.

Adam Sandler's atypically low - key performance as unemployed single dad Danny Meyerowitz has garnered him lots of praise, but it's primarily his scenes opposite Grace Van Patten, as Danny's teenage daughter, Eliza, that reveal this oft - abrasive actor's tender side.

The gist of it is that four teenage orphans (if you can call actors approaching 30 as teenagers) each find a «Golden Ticket» (a la Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) that takes them to the vaunted Willy chocolate factory, where they are treated in a not - too - kind fashion, only finding their means of escape through a large wardrobe (see Chronicles of Narnia) that, upon entering, takes them to the land of Gnarnia.

Favorite Movie Actor Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) Hugh Jackman (X-Men: Days of Future Past) Jamie Foxx (The Amazing Spider - Man 2) Mark Wahlberg (Transformers: Age of Extinction) Steve Carell (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) Will Arnett (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Lego Movie)

Pam Grady: Diary of a Teenage Girl star Bel Powley adds further evidence that she is one of the most talented actors working today with a pitch - perfect performance as a precocious adolescent, a recent Harvard graduate, grappling with social isolation, troubling memories, and long - standing family drama in this character - driven drama.

Over the course of the film, we hear stories about shootings of teenage boys and learn that most of the actors have lost someone to gun violence.

Photo Credit: Ian Ziering on Twitter For those of you that remember FOX's teenage drama Beverly Hills 90210 from the 1990's, actor Ian Ziering played...

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also left their omnipresent mark on this iteration of Double Dragon, so of course one of them (Billy) has to be an annoying good - for - nothing loudmouth who can not actually do proper martial arts (saved his actor from learning any) and Jimmy the stoic perfectionist (so of course the Asian actor had to play him — the difference in race between the brothers is never even handwaved).