Sentences with phrase «scrappy kids»

Disney has really carved out a genre for itself: the underdog sports story as cultural melting pot, complete with the Middle American white coach / scout / father figure whose preconceptions are overturned by scrappy kids who overcome every hurdle with heart and hard work.

In «The Dark Horse,» a New Zealand drama from writer - director James Napier Robertson about a real - life Maori chess coach with mental illness, star Cliff Curtis is so heartbreakingly convincing in the lead role that he routinely frees you of the feeling you're watching one more adversity saga with scrappy kids and a third - act tournament.

Zamperini, as played by the solid Jack O'Connell (watch for him in next year's gruelingly tense «' 71»), is a likably scrappy kid who, thanks to the care and discipline of his older brother Pete, uses the speed he has utilized in the past to avoid the law and focuses it on running the mile in track.

Tom Hardy plays the notorious real - life Bronson in this stylized biographical drama of the scrappy kid who proved to have no talent for thieving but found a real place for himself as a prison bad - ass and parlayed his notoriety into celebrity.

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And, having played ultimate throughout summer camp as a kid (often with Marc), briefly in college, and for two seasons in a scrappy New York City league (yes, I realize I'm officially coming out of the nerd closet here), I was invited to play Thursday.

And what does the star investor and tech industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?

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Up in the flak - filled clouds, Louis (English actor Jack O'Connell) flashes back to his childhood in the 1920s, as a scrappy immigrant kid (played by C. J. Valleroy) in Torrance, Calif., heading for a life of violence and petty crime.

SYNOPSIS: Jack (Charlie Plummer) is a scrappy 15 - year - old kid stuck in a run - down small town.

The straight adventure doesn't glow like Pixar's emotionally meaty movies, but with eccentric characters and a scrappy heart — courtesy of NewsRadio - era Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley — the movie has a taken - for - granted kid's movie quality: fun.

It's too bad Rita couldn't have been the movie's focus; she's a rare sexy, smart, scrappy character in kids» films.

For the second year in a row, Bruce Willis (The Whole Nine Yards, The Sixth Sense) teams with a scrappy little kid in a situation that is a little unusual.

I think kids are very open to new things, and there's something about being scrappy independents that appeals to kids, especially teens.

Yukimura is one of the few characters to properly age across the time period presented (something reserved almost exclusively for Sanada clansmen) and the first few times players will take control of him, he'll be as a scrappy young kid with a stick rather than the Crimson Demon he's more famously known as.