Sentences with phrase «precocious child»

Thankfully, this year's precocious child actor is 7 - year - old Brooklynn Prince, star of Sean Baker's wonderful new film The Florida Project.

In addition to escapism, it was a big year for precocious children, for exceptional scenery - chewing, for big returns (Jeff Goldblum!)

My poor mother had a very precocious child on her hands.

For some in the right age group, maturing alongside Harry can be life - defining — tracking their own growth by seeing Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, among other young actors on the films, transform from precocious children to charming adults over the course of the series.

In the case of Jurassic Park we are primed with a few lines of popcorn science about fossilised DNA, clever cloning and ingenious hatchery, then it's just a matter of putting up with a decent interval (cue «character») before those lumbering bastards start eating motor cars and swallowing precocious children whole.

Aiden really doesn't know what to do with any of it, but, before he can blink, he finds himself forced to homeschool his two precocious children while grappling with the implications of the imminent death of both his father and his dreams.

These early scenes of Reed as an unusually precocious child have a bit of a Steven Spielberg - by - way - of - Unbreakable quality to them.

Time - traveling adventures and precocious children go together like peanut butter and jelly when it comes to Nathan Summers.

The second adaptation of A.J. Quinnell's novel (the first starred Scott Glenn and Joe Pesci), Man On Fire casts a largely wasted Denzel Washington as a repressed alcoholic and Bible - reading killing machine hired as a bodyguard for Dakota Fanning, the most creepily precocious child star this side of Haley Joel Osment.

This is the kind of character that can slip all too easily into the insufferably precocious child archetype and the fact that he never does is a huge testament to both Parker and the script.

Anderson is fond of matching such precocious children with regressed adults, but for the first two thirds, he keeps an arm's length between these camps.

Outlandishly precocious children in movies are such an irritating trope.

Julian C. Stanley, a psychologist, statistician, and educator who championed the cause of accelerated instruction for academically precocious children, died Aug. 12 in Columbia, Md..

The bad news: the only way in which you might be eligible for overtime is by having the Second Circuit declare that document review isn't actually legal work... which means you are pretty replaceable by a robot or a college graduate or a particularly precocious child.

Dancing gallery attendants, art - history kisses, conversations with precocious children: Sehgal's art is one of live confrontation and surprise.

And an entire large wall is given over to an enchanting array of small drawings and constructions that appear to have been discovered in the toy chest of a very precocious child — with an adult's sense of humor.

If you've ever had to answer a precocious child who wants to know «Why is the sky blue?»

He was a precocious child of extreme intelligence who read the encyclopedia for fun; not surprisingly, he was picked on relentlessly.

Precocious children must be properly socialized; they need to enjoy the playground.

Yeah, I was a precocious child but that's where it began.

There is something perfectly Reagan-esque about a government that is at once malevolent, omnipotent, and vulnerable to the meddling of precocious children.

Alleva and his cohorts stand with arms folded in the corner, looking like the bad guys in a movie who are thwarted by a precocious child.

He had the star mentality with the behaviour of a precocious child and caused unbearable tension within the group of players.

But when parents, teachers and experts talk about gifted or precocious children, they are actually measuring how smart a child is.

Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, Einstein was a precocious child.

I read a book in 1984 (I was a precocious child;)-RRB- explaining why butter was not bad and why margarine other was bad.

Katja and Nuri have a precocious child, Rocco (Rafael Santana), who hangs around his father's office and soaks up the trade.

He's joined by his loving wife, Helen, and their four precocious children.

Race to Witch Mountain is pretty standard kiddie fare: Cute, precocious children are protected by a world - weary, wisecracking father figure and one - liners abound.

Written and directed by Taika Waititi, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople» is unlike any comedy where a cantankerous adult and a precocious child put aside their differences and gradually learn how similar they are to one another.

Even more alarming are the use of overtly familiar genre tropes, from meeting your future self to an odd relationship with a precocious child to a dimwitted assassin in need of a father figure.

Fearing the most dreadful tropical disease, Bob and Margaret fear that they have suddenly become parents to two precocious children and are desperate to find out what has happened.All ends well as Peter's illness turns out to be food poisoning.

A mixed bag of a thriller that exploits two primal fears — of artificial intelligence, and precocious children.

The story is told through the eyes of a precocious child, «Sophie,» played by newcomer Ruby Barnhill, who is befriended by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies 2015).

In the UK, Monthly Film Bulletin called the three - hour tale of a gamine postulate who gives seven precocious children and their uptight widowed father the gift of music and affection «an exceedingly sugary experience» whipped up from ingredients «that might have been bearable if the songs had been better».

The film is Anderson's best live - action feature — his best feature, period — since Rushmore, in part because, like that film, it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.

We've all seen movies with precocious children, but Henry is the most precocious child ever written.

There are shades of M. Night Shyamalan's better work in Midnight Special, which focuses on a precocious child amid high - octane genre trappings.

Mouse, who's devoted to protecting his buddy, has a problem: He loves popping people, plain and simple, and like a precocious child, he has to be reminded to behave.

Even when the dog's the central focus, as seen in the opening segment featuring Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy, and their precocious child, Keaton Nigel Cooke, we're handed an ugly portrait of a dying marriage, one that can't be saved by post-modern homes and European cars.

In Love The Coopers, Keaton again plays the matriarch to a harried brood of neurotic, over-stressed adults, and cute, precocious children.

Being the precocious child that I was, as soon as the adults turned away, I walked straight to her tank.

To the average onlooker, Kathryn lives a life of domestic bliss: She lives in a charming cottage with a perfectly manicured garden; she has a doting husband and two precocious children.

This rare and chilling account of the bloody aftermath of the Khmer Rouge's merciless victory over the Cambodian government in April 1975 is written in the present tense and narrated by a precocious child, who first learned of the Khmer Rouge when she was five and was then caught in the mass murder and inhumanity that followed in its wake.