Sentences with phrase «of teenaged protagonist»

Big Mouth could be delightfully crude and hilariously blunt about the ids of its teenage protagonists, but it worked because of its equal - opportunity approach.

While certainly less well - known than Schindler's List or La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni 1997)-- the film succeeds in capturing a sense of the moral complexity, even the absurdity of wartime through the eyes of its teenage protagonist.

Not exact matches

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

The film's protagonist is Betty Freeman (Joanne Kelly of «Warehouse 13»), a mother of two boys, precocious Sam (Kivlighan de Montebello) and teenage Finley (Alex Shaffer of Win Win), and wife of Frank (Neal Huff), whose small family farm supply company she helps run.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

An early sequence demonstrates this well, as the first of the film's three protagonists, teenage boy Lucho (Henry Rivera), spies on his stepsister Sara (Yulianna Padilla) having sex with her boyfriend Bryan (Marcos Carlos Cintrón).

In voiceover narration, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), our teenaged pipsqueak of a protagonist, introduces us to Berk, an island located on «the Meridian of Misery.»

McArdle strays from the realist norms of many coming - of - age films with her bold aesthetics, which are complemented by other creative takes on teenage life: Léa Mysius» astonishing debut feature, Ava, is just as visually bold, immersing you in its protagonist's subjectivity.

The best reason to see Noah Baumbach's blistering autobiographical divorce drama The Squid and the Whale (The Samuel Goldwyn Company) is Jeff Daniels as the teenage protagonist's father, Bernard Berkman, a novelist and a titan of self - absorption whose ego envelops his son like a squid.

The film unfolds entirely within the frame lines of a teenage girl's laptop screen, its characters squeezed into the tiny boxes of a group video chat, its protagonist toggling frantically between various browsers as her evening web time becomes an online nightmare.

The protagonist of the title, Kuzco (voiced by the ever - sarcastic David Spade), is a self - centered teenaged emperor who has gotten his way from birth.

If we met Minnie, the protagonist of Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's 2002 graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl in any other comic book adaptation, she'd most likely be the high school siren and love interest.

The Edge of Seventeen: Far from the usual teen coming - of - age film, this is an interesting comedy - drama with an arresting protagonist — a teenage girl (Hailee Steinfeld) who is outgoing and loquacious but also troubled and spiraling downward.

The teenaged protagonist, a quiet runaway named Charley, can't catch a break, despite his hard work and attempts to stay on the good side of the law.

Bring along the teenage protagonists of Bradbury's creepiest novel.

It's not Neil Gaiman (but it's almost that good), it's not typically YA (despite the teenage protagonists), it's not easily categorised (it's somewhere between metaphysics, magic and uhh, time travel, along with a really vivid depiction of a family failing to deal with grief and completely falling apart).

Narrated by a 16 - year - old girl in Vermont, Bohjalian's suspenseful and provocative novel pushes some hot buttons — child homelessness, mental illness, nuclear energy — while creating one of the most memorable teenage protagonists in recent fiction.

With its teenage protagonist, Maybe A Miracle has the potential to appeal to readers from the older teens through to adults, both men and women; and with subject matter that runs the gauntlet of hot topic subjects, including religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).

Told in alternating viewpoints from the two main characters, Josh and Nastya, the reader is given only partial glimpses at a time of the endurance race the two teenaged protagonists have had to run.

In most (if not all cases), the protagonists of the novels fall within those age ranges, and the story is told through teenage eyes.

Just as Prep combines a maturity of narratorial tone and a jittery teenage protagonist, so Sittenfeld is an intriguing mix of self - deprecation and self - confidence.

Another story envisioned as the first chapter in a trilogy, Julie Cross» 2012 novel is a time - travel adventure that has its teenage protagonist accidentally discovering his ability to move through time after he witnesses the murder of his girlfriend.