Sentences with phrase «old title character»

Mackenzie Davis plays the 23 - year - old title character, a hipster with the skills of a lactation expert and sleep coach who becomes, over the course of the film, Marlo's best friend and mentor, ultimately leading her on a path to reconnect — dangerously — with her lost youth.

Early on in Lady Bird, the solo director - writer debut from Greta Gerwig, the 17 - year - old title character, played by Saoirse Ronan, delivers a dramatic statement to her mother and leaps from a moving car.

Filmmaker Jay Duplass channeled the close relationship he shares with brother, co-writer and co-director, Mark, into the sweet but insular relationship the 21 - year - old title character of their film CYRUS shares with his mother.

Still, both Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin, who plays the 16 - year - old title character, should be commended for going way against type, particularly Ahnold.

Not exact matches

Portrayal title character in the true crime rabbit hole and we live happily ever after with a senior single on older.

The 40 Year - Old Virgin is a buoyantly clever and amusing comedy full of fresh gags about porn and speed dating, yet it has the wit to present its title character's dilemma as a projection of all our romantic anxieties.

Despite the title, the lead character is, in fact, Miguel (terrifically voiced by young Anthony Gonzalez), a 12 - year - old resident of the town of Santa Cecilia who dreams of becoming a famous musician just like his idol, the late, great Ernesto de la Cruz (played with pitch - perfect grandiosity by Benjamin Bratt).

As the title character, a guy pausing at mid-life to lick his wounds, heal some old rifts and maybe open a few new ones, Stiller manages quite a nice performance.

Josh Wiggins (front) plays 13 - year - old Jacob and is the title character in «Hellion.»

As Run The Jewels pulses on the soundtrack, we also get new shots of the movie's cast — not just title character Chadwick Boseman, but also his friends and enemies — in action, facing off with swords, guns, and good - old mystically powered martial arts.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

Gloria (Unrated) Paulina Garcia plays the title character in this romantic dramedy, set in Santiago, about a lonely, 58 year - old divorcee who rushes headlong into a relationship with a naval officer (Sergio Hernandez) she meets at a singles» bar.

Most of the action is seen through the eyes of the title character, a 70 - year - old retired man who gets hired as a «senior intern» at Jules» company.

Rush will play the older version of the title character in the Ambience Entertainment production, while Courtney plays the boy's father.

Two casting items tonight: Julianne Moore will play the title character in the feature adaptation of Harvard neuroscientist Lisa Genova «s debut novel, Still Alice, about a 50 - year - old woman diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease.

Plotless and episodic, it depicts a few lazy summer days in the life of its perpetually bemused title character (memorably embodied by Julianne Côté), whose parents are on vacation, leaving herself and her much older brother, Rémi (Marc - André Grondin) to fend for themselves.

A Girl like Grace (Unrated) Ryan Destiny portrays the title character in this coming - of - age drama as a grieving 17 year - old who is taken under the wing of her late BFF's (Paige Hurd) street-wise big sister (Meagan Good) after the friend commits suicide.

It is tempting to see the title characters in Husbands (1970) as older versions of the trio in John Cassavetes» breakthrough film, Shadows (1959)-- aimless New Yorkers indulging in noisy horseplay,...

The central relationship is between the fortysomething title character, Nira (Sarit Larry), a married mother of two, and Yoav, a 5 - year - old charge of hers with a curious gift: every now and again, without warning, he paces back and forth and begins declaiming perfectly formed verses on love and loss that would seem far beyond the scope of his emotional life.

Here, as directed by light - hearted, comedy specialist Peyton Reed («Bring It On,» «The Break - Up,» «Yes Man») from a script credited to Edgar Wright, Adam McKay, Joe Cornish and Paul Rudd (who also stars as the title character), the tale is told of Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas, Academy Award winner for «Wall Street» who is seen as his current old self and as a Photoshopped 1980s stud) and his protege, Scott Lang (Rudd, «All is Bright»).

Understanding what could be meant by the title of the series goes some way towards understanding the structure of the story's cosmology, here a future - scape where the only distinct characters are bounty hunters and the fugitives that they hunt, sometimes with the help of a gloriously cheesy television program that apes reality shows on the one hand (and the Japanese have a long history of outrageous television that no number of «Fear Factor «s can approach), but more trenchantly, the Japanese infatuation with the mythology of the American Old West.

Anton (Gabriel Casseus) is a mildly - retarded 28 year - old reminiscent of that title character Cuba Gooding played in Radio.

Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike, while her mother (Reem Abdullah) fights to hold on to her husband, whose wealthy mother is encouraging him to get a second wife.

Owing equal debt to Italian neo-realism and more contemporary Iranian cinema, Haifaa Al - Mansour «s feature debut follows the title character, a rebellious 12 - year - old girl who enters a Koran - recitation competition at school in order to win enough money to ride a bike.

Doing his best impression of a classic character actor in the Gabby Hayes mold, a scraggly - bearded Bill Pullman stars as the title character, a lifelong Old West sidekick who finds himself on his own after his legendary compadre (Peter Fonda) is killed by cattle rustlers.

Ronan plays the title character, a 16 - year - old raised in the forest by her woodsman father, played by Eric Bana, who has trained her since toddler - hood to be a perfect assassin.

Based on 1937's Stella Dallas, Stella follows Bette Midler's title character as she's forced to contend with single parenthood after the baby's father (Stephen Collins» Stephen) moves on - with the movie detailing the rocky relationship that eventually ensues between Stella and her daughter Jenny (played, as an older teenager, by Trini Alvarado).

The title is the name of the great - grandmother of the central character, a high - spirited, music - mad 12 - year - old boy named Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez).

In Joshua Z. Weinstein's Yiddish - language drama, Menashe, we follow the title character, a Hasidic Jewish widower who, defying the Orthodox Jewish practices of his Brooklyn's massive community, struggles to regain the custody of his 10 - year - old son, Rieven (Ruben Niborski).

The title character in «Frances Ha,» a 27 - year - old woman whose life is headed in any number of directions but few of the good, calls herself «undatable.»

The 41 - year - old actor, who plays the title character in the Disney and Marvel flick, hit the purple carpet at the event held at Dolby Theatre on Monday (January 29) in Hollywood.

The title character is Marina, a waitress and nightclub singer who must put her life back together after her older boyfriend dies suddenly.

With the newest poster for Finding Dory you get an instant sense of nostalgia as our beloved title character is front and center, surrounded by a colorful collage of sea creatures, showcasing some old friends and potential new friendly faces.

Another seven years passed (incidentally, the mythical length of time it takes for the human body to shed its skin) before Mancini's Curse of Chucky resurrected the title character, this time as the cursed object in an old - dark - house chiller.

Yelchin will play the title character, a 20 - year - old short - order cook who can see the spirits of the dead.

The title character (a truly dazed Edward Furlong) is Little Chrissy's perky older brother, who snaps photos of everyone and everything he sees around him.

Pam Grier stars as the title character, a 44 - year - old flight attendant of a rinky - dink Mexican airline who's just been arrested for smuggling $ 50,000 into California for charismatic arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson).

Much like last year's Hyrule Warriors, Dragon Quest Heroes has taken characters from its classic titles and given them an updated look for some good old hack n» slash action on current gen systems.

Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman has confirmed the fantasy film franchise has come to an end.The 22 - year - old actor shot to fame as the title character...

The 43 - year - old filmmaker helms the upcoming eighth instalment of the «Star Wars» space saga, and as soon as the new title «The Last Jedi» was announced, fans have constantly speculated who the character is.

This title has all the makings of an old school arcade fighting game with a colossal cast of fan favorite Dragon Ball Z characters like Goku, Vegeta, Buu, Frieza, Nappa and Cell - and that's just the start of the list.

Typically, digital versions of many comic books were relegated to older backlist titles or lesser popular characters and storylines, a way to try to boost interest in flailing issues or outdated themes.

Replace acts as a prequel novel to the manga, following the title character Kuroko and his old teammates in their middle school years.

Brian Michael Bendis and artist Andrea Sorrentino recently revisited the devastated world in their «Old Man Logan» miniseries for the current «Secret Wars» event, which began with the title character leaving his home reality (now part of the Doom - created Battleworld) and concluded with the older Wolverine suddenly finding himself on the streets of the All - New, All - Different Marvel Universe.

These are mostly older titles; the books he's written during the past decade or two are sometimes disappointingly derivative, with recycled ideas and even character names.

If this model holds, then there might be a chance writers can once again return to their primary title as writers, period, and not have to worry (as much) about promotion and schmoozing or wasting time chatting on Twitter when they ought to be writing their book, not chatting with 14 - year - old Bieber - ites who don't have time or interest to read anything beyond 140 characters anyway.

McCorkle is an acute observer of the foibles of domestic life, and in stories like the title tale, in which a woman is yoked to her dying mother as a caretaker while her younger sisters carp at her from a distance, or «Surrender,» where a grandmother must suffer the childish cruelty of her late son's five - year - old daughter, she blends empathy for her characters» predicaments with an unsparing take on those grim circumstances.

There are some strong older titles in this deal that are worth checking out, especially if you love the feeling of wanting to snap your controller in half because your meaty little character keeps exploding on buzz - saws.

Of course, Marvel also feature some new faces — while staying true to their roots, the new title has included some more recent creations such as X-23 (a modern, female Wolverine clone), as well as a host of older characters that didn't make it into the last game — Thor, She - Hulk, and fan - favourite, Deadpool.

Much like last year's Hyrule Warriors, Dragon Quest Heroes has taken characters from its classic titles and given them an updated look for some good old hack n» slash action on current gen systems.