Sentences with phrase «precocious girl»

Set in Kerala, India, during the 1940s, The Maramon Convention follows «the life of a precocious girl who escapes her town in southern India to become a pioneering physician in spinal surgery.»

Most of the rest of the events take place in Georgetown, where Ellen Burstyn (The Last Picture Show, The Wicker Man) plays Chris MacNeil, a film actress and single mother of a precocious girl named Regan (Blair, Roller Boogie).

Like most of her classmates, Lydia (Maisie Williams) is in awe of her friend Abbie (Florence Pugh), a beautiful and sexually precocious girl.

There's a profound insight here about our Darwinian natures untutored by civilization or about the immaturity of even a precocious girl.

The premise of the film is a bit farfetched, as it has the titular longsuffering widower and father of three precocious girls traveling to see his family out in rural Rhode Island, where he meets a beautiful woman (Binoche, Paris I Love You) while getting away from the group for a bit.

The heroines who seized my heart belonged to the sophisticated urban settings of Wouk's Youngblood Hawke and Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Joy in the Morning; if precocious girls elsewhere, poised on the verge of puberty, were reading Austen or the Brontës, I didn't know it and I doubt I would have cared.

These four precocious girls, ranging in age from five to 11, were delighted by my iPhone (s aapl) the first time I showed it to them and now, each time they visit, my iPhone is appropriated for a while so they can play games on it.

Not exact matches

Here are the three most commonly discussed hypotheses for why precocious puberty has a negative effect on tween girls.

Matilda is a precocious little girl who has special abilities and whose parents don't understand her.

Environmental estrogens have also been linked to early puberty in girls and increasing numbers of girls experiencing precocious puberty in recent years (15).

I am the mother of two precocious little girls and am married to my college sweetheart, Brandon.

Early Menstruation / Precocious Puberty: Hypothyroidism in girls may trigger very early menstruation, i.e., before the age of 10.

In Richard Ayoade's sharp debut film, Oliver Tate is a precocious 15 - year - old Welsh virgin who has a crush on a tough girl, Johanna, and a mother who might just be cheating on his sad - sack dad.

Gilmore Girls is a genuine gem in the making, a family - friendly hour burdened by neither trite cliche nor precocious pablum.

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

Goldthwait, on screenwriting and directing duty for the fourth time, ups the ante of precocious C - bomb dropping teenage girls (an alarming number of these characters seem to be popping up, from Hit Girl to Boltie) with Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr) who might not have the best aim with a handgun, but does a mean Jeff Foxworthy impression and has an impressively long list of grievances (and Star Trek trivia) for one so young.

Akeelah Anderson is a precocious 11 - year - old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words.

Lowe plays Ruth, a grieving widow who believes that her unborn child is speaking to her in a voice she describes as «very articulate» and sounds like a precocious little girl with a highly developed vicious streak.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Robertson is irrepressible and makes a bright contrast to Clooney's bitterness, and Raffey Cassidy holds her own as a preternaturally precocious little girl.

Complexity comes in the form of these two being complete strangers separated by about 35 years; one is a precocious 12 - year old girl; the other a 40 - something man.

Nicholas Sparks is sitting this January out, but Forever My Girl offers a shoulder to cry on, along with the hallmarks of the most romantic movies ever made: parenthood, precocious kids, humble small - town stores, and the grim specter of death forever hanging over the characters» every move.

It applies the same premise — precocious rich girl lives out of a fancy Manhattan hotel with a dog and friendly hired help by her side while her worldly parents do exciting work elsewhere — to 12 - year - old Zoe (Heather McComb, the future first Mrs. James Van Der Beek).

Bautista will star as «a hardened CIA operative who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9 - year - old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family,» ComingSoon writes.

Elle Fanning continues her electric career playing precocious teens on the cusp of sexual awakening with her role as the eccentric love interest in How to Talk to Girls at Parties — but with a twist.

This acclaimed indie film about a precocious Cincinnati girl added Los Angeles this week and continues to show appeal as well as strong reviews in its early dates.

Coraline Teri Hatcher and Dakota Fanning add their voices to this 3D animated feature about a precocious and frustrated young girl, Coraline, who discovers a tunnel to a parallel world where everything seems perfect; but all is not what it seems as the truth comes out and Coraline is trapped.

Those segments are then tied together by a story about a precocious young girl who, by the way, has an animal sidekick and that is filled with pratfalls, innocently mischievous humor, and a couple of jokes about how «icky» kissing is.

Hit Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz, whom some may remember as the precocious younger sister in (500) Days of Summer) has to be one of the greatest big screen superhero incarnations we've seen in a long time, and truly unique.

This set - up is ripe for both black comedy and soul - searching drama, and yet writer Steven Knight throws in irrelevant sideroads including a mandated therapist (the wonderful Emma Thompson), a bitter rival (a jagged Matthew Rhys), a couple of randomly violent loan sharks and a precocious little girl.

MILLER»S GIRL by Jade Bartlett The story of a young precocious writer who becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming - of - age drama that explores the often blurred lines of connectivity between professor and protege, child and adult.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl Translating tricky source material to the screen with flying colors, actress Marielle Heller's feature directing debut, «The Diary of a Teenage Girl,» manages to plunge into the too - precocious sex life of a 15 - year - old girl without turning exploitative or distasteGirl Translating tricky source material to the screen with flying colors, actress Marielle Heller's feature directing debut, «The Diary of a Teenage Girl,» manages to plunge into the too - precocious sex life of a 15 - year - old girl without turning exploitative or distasteGirl,» manages to plunge into the too - precocious sex life of a 15 - year - old girl without turning exploitative or distastegirl without turning exploitative or distasteful.

Bresson's Mouchette, a very young, utterly disenfranchised girl who is both sexually precocious, sexually abused, and suicidal, was likely a template for many of Breillat's own tortured adolescents.

Somehow, the precocious young girl senses that she couldn't be any worse off if she ran away, in spite of her uncle's stern warning that, «You wouldn't last one day on your own.»

Pam Grady: Diary of a Teenage Girl star Bel Powley adds further evidence that she is one of the most talented actors working today with a pitch - perfect performance as a precocious adolescent, a recent Harvard graduate, grappling with social isolation, troubling memories, and long - standing family drama in this character - driven drama.

She lives with her precocious younger sister and two surfer girl roommates, but she is clearly the one with the talent for the board, which is the reason she is invited to compete in the Women's Rip Masters competition.

Precocious seventeen - year - old Elio (an utterly astonishing Timothée Chalamet) is surrounded with luscious fruit from the trees, lovely girls from the village, books and music to fill the hours spent with his parents (Amira Casar, Michael Stuhlbarg) in the rural villa where they research Greco - Roman culture.

Infant and preschool girls who consistently favor one hand over the other are likely to be more intellectually precocious than girls who do not show early signs of «handedness,» two psychologists at California State University have found.

Its assimilation into popular culture is such that the name «Lolita» has been used to imply that a young girl is sexually precocious.

He shares his home with a precocious young girl, his wonderful wife (who also writes), two cats, a never - ending list of things he would like to build, and ideas...

«This girl who was so precocious entered the male - dominated woods of the art world, and they made sure that she got lost in it,» he added.

She is so cute and precocious little girl.