Sentences with phrase «on the memoir by»

The movie is based on a memoir by Terry («Tuff») Ryan, one of two children who became authors.

Based on the memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Cameron Crowe's first feature since 2005's Elizabethtown is based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee about a family who purchases a rundown zoo in the New England countryside.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

Based on a memoir by Carolyn Briggs, Higher Ground stars Farmiga as a woman struggling with her faith over the decades.

It's ostensibly based on a memoir by a genuine professional escort, sort of a «Happy Hooker» for the 21st century, a colorful distraction with a lot of sex, plenty of lingerie, a little flesh and a few minor complications that pass for drama.

THR reports Stronger will be based on the memoir by Jeff Bauman with help from Bret Witter.

Now she's taking a break from the director's chair and circling a new role, according to Variety, as the lead in «Shoot Like a Girl,» based on the memoir by Purple Heart veteran Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar.

Written by David Nicholls based on the memoir by Blake Morrison.

Based on the memoir by Benjamin Mee, the film follows a freshly widowed father (Matt Damon) who, in an unconventional attempt at self - therapy, moves himself and his two children Dylan and Rosie (Colin Ford and Maggie Elizabeth Jones) into a decrepit zoo.

An Education is a period drama, one based on a memoir by British journalist Lynn Barber.

Based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, the drama stars Matt Damon as a single dad who moves his family to a run - down zoo.

Set in the world of high - stakes poker, the film is based on the memoir by Molly Bloom that Sorkin adapted himself.

Based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo stars Matt Damon as a single dad who moves his family to a dilapidated zoo.

Based on a memoir by the same name, it tells the incredible true story of an African - American detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan and becomes the head of its local chapter.

Actor Richard Roxburgh's directorial debut, Romulus is a quintessentially Australian tale based on the memoir by Raimond Gaita.

«True Story,» April 10 Based on the memoir by former top journalist Michael Finkel, «True Story» follows Finkel (Jonah Hill) and murderer Christian Longo (James Franco)-- who lived for years outside the U.S. using Finkel's name — as the journalist dives into the psyche of one of the FBI's most wanted killers and tries to clear his name.

Reese Witherspoon gives a beautifully stripped - back performance in this epic journey based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed.

Based on the memoir by Joseph Joffo and Claude Klotz.

«Eating Animals» [CAA] Natalie Portman produces this well - received doc about the horrors of meat consumption based on a memoir by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.

The education of An Education (Sony), based on the memoir by Lynn Barber, comes to a smart and mature sixteen - year - old girl who, eager to escape her petite bourgeois life in early 1960s London, is swept off her feet by a confident, charming and worldly man with a lot of secrets.

It is based on a memoir by Solomon Northup, a free man from Saratoga, New York, who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.

The movie is based on a memoir by reporter Kim Barker titled «The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan» about her time in 2000 covering the war.

The story, based on the memoir by Amos Oz, revolves around Oz's childhood in Jerusalem in the period following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel, in addition to his teenage years on a kibbutz.

His smart choices continue with this real - life drama based on a memoir by disgraced New York Times journalist Michael Finkel, who played fast and loose with the facts and found himself exiled back home in snowy Montana.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), «Frank» is based on the memoir by Jon Ronson.

Serving as something of a flipside to 2013's Tom Hanks - starring «Captain Phillips,» Brian Buckley's «The Pirates of Somalia,» based on a memoir by Jay Bahadur, finds itself navigating some choppy tonal waters prior to emerging as an engagingly performed take on recent world events.

Based on the memoir by journalist Michael Finkel, the absolutely bizarre story will find Hill playing the author of the book, who formerly worked for the New York Times, and found his life take a stranger turn when Christian Longo (Franco)-- a wanted man on the FBI Top Ten list for mudering his family — was arrested in Mexico.

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, from a screenplay by Cretton and Andrew Lanham, based on the memoir by Jeannette Walls.

RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS (Grade: B): Based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the film follows a gifted teen, Bev (Drew Barrymore), whose high aspirations are sidelined when she becomes pregnant by a well - intentioned no - hoper (Steve Zahn).

The movie was written by Nick Hornby and it's based on a memoir by Lynn Barber.

It is based on the memoir by Molly Bloom, an Olympic - class skier who was targeted by the FBI after she began running a high - stakes poker game.

This is based on the memoir by Peter Turner in which he recounts his love affair with Hollywood film star Gloria Grahame while he was a much younger up - and - coming actor.

The film is based on the memoir by Molly Bloom that Sorkin adapted himself, and it follows the world of high - stakes poker.

Written by James Schamus, a regular Lee Collaborator, the film will be based on a memoir by Elliott Tiber, a man who helped start the event on his neighbour's farm.

(via our pal Alex at FirstShowing) Jonathan Teplitzky directs The Railway Man from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Millions) and first - time writer Andy Paterson, based on a memoir by Eric Lomax.

Created by cousins Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman with Alex Timbers and Paul Weitz - Schwartzman plays an orchestra - obsessed podcaster - Mozart in the Jungle is loosely based on a memoir by Blair Tindall.

Based on the memoir by Amy - Jo Albany, LOW DOWN is a compassionate, tender look at the complex relationship between Amy - Jo (Elle Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage...

Actress and director Angelina Jolie Pitt will direct an adaptation of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, based on the memoir by Loung Ung, a Facing History Cleveland Advisory Board member and frequent Facing History speaker.

Not exact matches

Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

On a warm spring afternoon, Phil Knight found the time to meet up with me at the Le Germain Hotel in downtown Toronto while in Canada for just a few hours promoting his book Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike.

It will be all but impossible for audiences to determine guilt or innocence, dereliction of duty or devotion to veracity, based strictly on the movie: Its screenplay was adapted by James Vanderbilt from Mapes» own memoir, Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power, in which she strenuously defends her work on what became known as «Rathergate» (or «Memogate»).

In an interview with «60 Minutes» on November 12 — and in her new memoir, «Fierce» — Raisman said that she was abused by Larry Nassar, a doctor who spent more than two decades working with the US Gymnastics team.

The 2016 memoir was inspired by the diary entries that Fisher wrote while working on the first «Star Wars» film in 1977.

The very rich (and thick) volume includes a biographical essay, a personal memoir by one of Torrance's students, now an Orthodox priest; nine substantial papers on....

The film, based on a bestselling coming - of - age Christian memoir of the same name, is scheduled to premiere Saturday at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

On this, see the memoir by D. E. Nineham in Studies in the Gospels.

She is working on a coming - of - age memoir by the same title, and is represented by the Carol Mann Agency.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.