Sentences with phrase «play about teenage girls»

Directing his first feature, Cory Finley adapts his play about teenage girls planning a murder.

Thoroughbreds by Hope Madden Directing his first feature, Cory Finley adapts his play about teenage girls planning a murder.

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Both movies are about two unhappy, bored teenage girls (played here by Emily Blunt and Natalie Press) from wildly different backgrounds who meet and quickly form an intense bond because of their sense of humor and intelligence, and their lack of similarity to those around them.

Director Marielle Heller's brilliant Diary of a Teenage Girl is a grimy, squeamish story about a 15 - year old (Bel Powley) in seventies San Francisco who loses her virginity to mom's dopey boyfriend, played by True Blood's Alexander Skarsgård.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the NineAbout Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineabout every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Annika Berg's Team Hurricane [+ see also: trailer interview: Annika Berg film profile] is an exciting, radical punk film about eight Danish teenage girls that played in the International Critics» Week section of the Venice Film Festival.

From acclaimed indie director Lynn Shelton comes this charming comedy about a young twenty - something named Megan (played by Keira Knightley) whose own arrested development results in a budding friendship with a teenage girl (Chloe Grace - Moretz) and her beleaguered single dad (Sam Rockwell).

In addition to How to Find a Woman... Or Not, Gary Morgenstein's books include the novels Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman, a romance about a divorced man who falls in love with a beautiful woman rabbi; Jesse's Girl, a powerful story about a father's search for his adopted teenage son, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, a political baseball thriller, as well as the baseball Rocky The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees.