Sentences with phrase «one's precocious daughter»

After attracting attention for her work in a TV commercial, Paquin was selected from some 5,000 applicants to portray Holly Hunter's precocious daughter in director Jane Campion's dour period piece The Piano.

It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife and your totally precocious daughter!

My gorgeous, amazing and precocious daughter Rebecca was born.

The three - man gang of Michael Pena, T.I. and David Dastmalchian, along with the more trust - worthy family of Scott's ex-wife Maggie, new husband Bobby and precocious daughter Cassie are potent additions to the movie.

Before that, he's sporting a Ron Burgundy - ish handlebar moustache in the hilariously funny 1970s - set buddy comedy «The Nice Guys», playing a crap private detective whose precocious daughter might be better at solving crimes than he is.

After a brief fling with former hockey hero «Boom Boom» Grafalk (Stephen Meadows), V.I. is shoved into the case of a lifetime when the man is murdered by unknown assailants, leaving his precocious daughter, Kat (Angela Goethals), in her custody.

Richard Attenborough is Kris Kringle, the department store Santa, who really believes he is the midnight present giver, while Elizabeth Perkins plays the skeptical Mrs. Walker who is trying to protect her precocious daughter Susan (Mara Wilson) from believing in fairytales like Santa Claus!

Sympathy surrounds him, yet his family languishes amidst heightened emotions; he quits his job and his teenage son is expelled from school, whilst his precocious daughter innocently takes on domestic duties.

, his precocious daughter standing in for the latter's plucky wife, the White House standing in for Nakatomi Plaza, and — alas — no one even much trying to stand in for Alan Rickman's deliciously wicked Hans Gruber.

The premise of the film is that divorced father Will Hayes (Reynolds, Smokin» Aces) is cajoled into relating the story in how he met his ex and the mother of his precocious daughter Maya (Breslin, No Reservations), who seems sure that she can get them back together if he could remember why he fell in love with her in the first place.

When he's a teenager, his best friend and fellow stoner Teddy (Avan Jogia) has secret sex with Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld), the precocious daughter of Les» well - off, longtime lover, Di (Emily Mortimer).

Cornish plays Jane, mother to a precocious daughter (Lola Flanery, «The Mist» TV series), wife to a possibly philandering husband (Diego Klattenhoff, «Pacific Rim»),...

John Cale (Channing Tatum), a member of the Capitol Police, happens to be there with his precocious daughter Emily (Joey King) for a job interview for the Secret Service and a tour of the building.

He ends up in the care of a high - class madam at a famous brothel; befriends Maisie, the madam's precocious daughter, and a bold scullery maid named Fahn; and unbelievably finds a sense of comfort and belonging he has never had.

Set in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, it features the precocious daughter of two teachers whose life is radically changed when she receives a diagnosis of scoliosis.