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FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

Sridevi was cast as a school teacher and a mother bent on avenging the rape of her teenage step daughter by some men, including one of her mates.

One Day at a Time has indeed made magic in how it's brought a streaming generation back to a time that might even remind you of an after - school special but told in the most sincere way possible, made possible by only an entire cast that makes the characters feel... well, simply real.

The old - school Irish Catholic party boss and New Deal political tactician famously said that the Democratic party had been taken over «by the cast of Hair.»

Nobody at school mentioned the electoral register or the channels of communication, let alone how I could affect unemployment, housing, welfare or the curriculum by casting a vote.

Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.

«Nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.»

De Blasio and Fariña are so blinded by their reflexive crusade against the charter school network that operates Success Academy 4 and its founder, Eva Moskowitz, that they are casting the kids into the desert without a care about doing real harm.

Only one voter had cast a ballot by 8 a.m. at a polling place at Albany High School on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015.

He turned south, walking away from the elementary school where he was supposed to vote without casting a ballot in an election whose results were already determined by the system.

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz found a new and politically expedient way to attack Mayor Bill de Blasio over space issues for her charter schools on Thursday by casting doubt on his worthiness to maintain mayoral control of the city's schools, perhaps his administration's most urgent priority in Albany.

His campaign raised issues, including saying that ballots were not available at a polling place at Carroll Hill Elementary School; that people were discouraged from voting; that voters were asked for ID at polling places at the Rensselaer County Office Building, in which the board offices are located; that the School 12 polling place was locked with no instructions on how to get inside; and that Wiltshire poll watchers were harassed by board employees about encouraging people to cast affidavit ballots.

«Our analysis suggests that Instagram is as important as being cast by a top agency in terms of its ability to predict success on the runway,» said Emilio Ferrara, a computer scientist at the University of Southern California who conducted the research at the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research and as a member of the IU Network Science Institute.

The hilarious supporting cast (Patton Oswalt and comic TJ Miller have memorable moments that wound up in the trailer for good reason) falls by the wayside, dies or gets left in Knightley and Carell's dust as they team up and travel farther and farther down the road to what they think will be their individual salvations: he to a high school sweetheart and she to her family in England.

Described by one prominent critic as Revenge of the Nerds with an increased fart quotient and added projectile vomiting, this dumb - dumb frat comedy cast Heder, Spade and Schneider as a trio of losers who form a baseball team to thwart a bunch of elementary - school bullies; Heder played a booger - eating dork with an unhealthy degree of maternal attachment.

By age 16, he dropped out of high school to take up acting full - time, relocating to Manhattan to make his off - Broadway debut in 1972 in Rain, and a minor role in the touring company of the hit musical Grease followed.In 1975, Travolta was cast in an ABC sitcom entitled Welcome Back, Kotter.

Krasinski's first stage experience was starring in a satirical high school play written and cast by B.J. Novak, now a writer and co-star on The Office.

Director: Ari Sandel Cast: Mae Whitman, Robbie Amell, Bella Thorne, Ken Jeong, Alison Janney, Skyler Samuels, Bianca A. Santos, Romany Malco Plot: Bianca (Whitman) is a content high school student, until she realises she is only friends with her mates to make them seem more attraction by comparison.

Two policemen going undercover as high - school kids is as hackneyed as they come, but by dint of some genuinely hilarious writing and top - class casting choices, 21 raises its head well above the parapet.

Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady, the sensitive and naive heroine — you could get away with that casting in 2004 — who gets a rude awakening when she enters the school system after being home - taught by zoologist parents in Africa.

Animated disaster comedy written and directed by acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (Cosplayers, New School), featuring a voice cast lead by Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts....

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Released: August 4 Cast: Hayley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin Director: Kogonada Why it's great: Set against the real - life architectural wonders of Columbus, Indiana, this blissful drama pairs Casey (Richardson), a fresh - out - of - high - school librarian who studies town history by day and cares for her ex-meth-addict mother by night, and Jin (Cho), a Korean book translator who returns to the Midwest when his father, a prominent designer, takes ill.

Carter is no stranger to high - school sports drama, helming the 2005 inspirational basketball flick, Coach Carter (which is set in nearby Richmond, CA), and even starting off his behind - the - scenes role by directing several episodes of the high - school basketball TV show he appeared in as a regular cast member, «The White Shadow».

Shooter was an adaptation of a Stephen Hunter novel, one from the general Lee Child school of books, a film with an interesting cast, but that was followed by a return to Training Day tropes in Brooklyn's Finest.

Sporadically entertaining but relentlessly lightweight, Accepted casts Justin Long as Bartleby Gaines - a personable high schooler who finds himself in something of a pickle after he's rejected by seven post-secondary institutions.

Election, based on the book by Tom Perrotta, casts Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a high school teacher who finds himself at the center of a nationwide scandal after rigging an election in favor of a likeable jock (Chris Klein) over a relentless overachiever (Reese Witherspoon).

Fright Night Directed by: Craig Gillespie Cast: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, David Tennant Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins Rating: R Release Date: August 19, 2011 PLOT: A teenager (Yelchin) begins to suspect his neighbor (Farrell) is a vampire after kids start disappearing from school.

Never Let Me Go follows a trio of children played as adults by Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield (who has been recently cast as the new Peter Parker / Spider - man) attending what appears to be a somewhat odd boarding school named Halsham in the England countryside.

And yet, despite the casual swipes at characterization in a sprawling cast (the black girl who belts out gospel like Bessie Smith, the Asian boy desperately in search of cool), School of Rock isn't a terrible film, just one that could have been written and directed by anyone.

Wolfenstein: The New Colossus subverts the old - school shooter tradition by featuring an incredible cast of characters with varied personalities in a world that makes you want to explore more and more of the society it features.

While its key demo continues to be the school - aged kids who tune into Cartoon Network on a daily basis, the series transcends age by appealing to both children and adults with its clever but goofy sense of humor, colorful cast of characters and whimsical songs.

It's a small symbol of Gondry's signature whimsy, yet the intimately straightforward The We and the I is aesthetically unlike any of his other work, which is why, as he confirmed, the bus is destroyed by the actual bus that carts the movie's cast of high - schoolers home.

Along with an especially informative audio commentary by director Karyn Kusama and writer Diablo Cody, the two - disc effort also includes a handful of deleted scenes that were likely cut for time, a short featurette on the making - of the pool scene, on - set video diaries with the cast and crew, and an episode of «Life After Film School» with Cody.

With a high - profile cast, in addition to a screenplay co-written by Bogdonavich and ex-wife Louise Stratten, the project — in which Wilson plays a Broadway director who falls in love with a prostitute — holds the potential to realize some of Bodgdonavich's old school charm with a fresh set of faces.

The 1971 original was directed by Don Siegel and cast Clint Eastwood as an injured Union soldier who is imprisoned in a Confederate girls» boarding school during the Civil War.

Shelley Hennig leads a cast of high - school friends who are harassed by a mysterious cyber-stalker.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: June 9 Why: Amy Heckerling's cynical slice of high - school life, adapted for the screen by first - time scriptwriter Cameron Crowe, is far from the contemporary classic its fans allege it to be, but it does feature a solid cast of future stars — among them, Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Nicolas Cage and Jennifer Jason Leigh — and one character, Penn's Jeff Spicoli, who would become a stoner icon for the ages.

Release date: May 11 Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Gillian Jacobs, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen Directed by: Ben Falcone (Tammy) Why we're excited: Inspired by Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School, Life of the Party stars McCarthy as a newly divorced mom who reinvents herself by heading back to college.

Dominika is shipped off to Sparrow school where her training is overseen by the iron fist of the Matron, played by Charlotte Rampling (seriously, the cast of this film is ridiculous), who molds her and her classmates into erotic atom bombs.

It's very heartening, too, that the DVD features such a robust slate of bonus material, anchored by 50 minutes» worth of behind - the - scenes footage that includes interviews with all the cast and crew, and charts the movie from inception (producer Ian Birkett was a film school classmate of Andrews, and his older brother Paul worked up the script) through pre-production work, shooting up in Canada, and post-production.

While the performances of the young cast members — keyZ - Boys are played by John Robinson from «Elephant, «Emile Hirsch from «TheGirl Next Door» and Victor Rasuk from «RaisingVictor Vargas» — are multifaceted, they sometimes have the under - rehearsedfeel of a bawdier after - school special.

Cantet — a gifted storyteller whose better films include «Human Resources» — has turned it into a pseudo-documentary by casting Begaudeau in the lead role of Francois, along with real - life teachers and students from an actual Paris middle school.

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It subverts the old - school shooter tradition by featuring an incredible cast of characters with varied personalities in a world that makes you want to explore more and more of the society it features.

NIGHT SCHOOL Oscilloscope Pictures Director: Andrew Cohn Written by: Andrew Cohn Cast: Greg Henson, Shynika Jakes,...

That the cast is played by actual teenagers (centered on the dramatically challenged Justice) and some barely in their twenties instead of older actors who only pass as teens to those years removed from high school underscores the film's target and its limited appeal for adult audiences, who can easily enjoy films like Mean Girls and Superbad.

Hannah Fidell first caught our attention with her unnerving second feature, «A Teacher,» which cast her frequent star Lindsay Burdge (who also appears in «The Long Dumb Road») as a high school teacher driven mad by her affair with a male student.

Red Sparrow releases to home video (Blu - ray / DVD / Digital Copy) with the following extras: - A New Cold War: Origination and Adaptation - Agents Provocateurs: The Ensemble Cast - Tradecraft: Visual Authenticity - Heart of the Tempest: On Location - Welcome to Sparrow School: Ballet and Stunts - A Puzzle of Need: Post-Production - Director Commentary by Francis Lawrence

An all - star cast (Melissa Leo, Adam Scott, Peter Fonda, Juno Temple, Mad Men's Vincent Katheiser) recount the stranger - than - fiction tale of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the woman who founded the American Atheists organization back in the early Sixties, helped to get Bible - reading out of schools and was later kidnapped and killed by one of her former employees.