Sentences with phrase «plays young heroine»

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There are few, if any, young actors other than her who could play the type of strong, capable, insightful heroine embodied by Katniss.

Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity just by sticking to their guns and never abandoning their dreams.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Saldana says she's proud to play space heroines and thinks some should remember what «a superhero means to a young child.»

The action picks up when R (played by Nicholas Hoult, of About a Boy, the UK «Skins» and X-Men: First Class fame) and best friend M (Rob Corddry) come across a band of young human refugees led by Julia (our young heroine, played by Teresa Palmer of, well, nothing remarkable), Nora (Analeigh Tipton, Crazy Stupid Love) and Perry (Dave Franco, of looking uncannily like his brother James, and also 21 Jump Street).

And they're not the only new additions, as David Adamthwaite, Daniel Bacon, Chris Gibbs, Adam Godley, Jonathan Holmes, Paul Moniz de Sa and Olafur Olafsson have all been hired to join Mark Rylance's titular character, Ruby Barnhill as young heroine Sophie and Bill Hader, who is playing one of the less charming giants.

My previous description of the basic plot doesn't even mention the star of the movie, Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), the new young heroine played by Isabela Moner, supporting roles by Anthony Hopkins (as the leader of the Witwiccans), Jerrod Carmichael (as Cade's assistant), John Turturro (reprising his role from the first three films), Josh Duhamel (also reprising his role from the previous films, but this time as a spy), Tony Hale (as a Nasa JPL nerd), Glenn Morshower (reprising his military role), and many others.

When she finishes, the teacher asks the other Annie in the class (our young heroine, played by «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis) to come to the front of the room for her presentation.

In a surprisingly madcap Jane Austen - ish vein, Emily (played in her younger years by actress Emma Bell before a more querulous Nixon takes over) emerges as a spirited heroine with very particular and unconventional ideas about herself, and her relationship to God and the written word.

Shame, then, that Stephen Bradleys earnest drama never gets to grips with its remarkable heroine, played by a wry Deirdre OKane as an adult, and by standout Sarah Greene as a young woman.

Playing an action heroine was like professional playtime, and she gained five or six kilograms of muscle to play the role: «Due to all the action scenes that [the character] had to be put through, I wanted it to be plausible that a young girl could fight a man who's obviously both stronger and bigger.»

From its enigmatic tease of an opening sequence until its sobering finale, Mitchell establishes a permeating atmosphere of the unknown, which remains even as we learn the specifics of the threat that is pursuing our heroine, a young woman (played by Maika Monroe) who also becomes the target of male gazing.

# 1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman heralds the arrival of his thrilling new stand - alone novel, The Murderer's Daughter, with this eBook original prequel short story — a powerful portrait of a young man seeking his destiny, who will ultimately play a key role in the life of an unforgettable new Kellerman heroine.