Sentences with phrase «social misfits»

I mean, it wouldn't be a group of social misfits without at least one starving artist right?

So, if you have a book about social misfits who play music — she's your girl.

Lee has a rare gift for depicting how the minor dissonance of everyday interactions eventually explodes into public displays of rage and despair, and performances are critical to his emotionally bracing storytelling, which typically plants slightly unhinged social misfits in stiflingly conformist environments.

The push - pull between cruelty and kindness worked in «Ghost World,» «American Splendor,» «Welcome to the Dollhouse» and other films about social misfits, but for all their intelligence, these filmmakers don't have the dexterity (see what I did there?)

The blanket confidence of extroverts generally casts them as warm and approachable, while introverts seem to get lumped in with social misfits, and are thought to be closed and detached.

This tale of kooky social misfits finding their place in the world is an audience pleaser, for all the reasons such tales usually are.

An unequipped social misfit — in this case Josh Futterman (Josh Hutcherson),... Read more

Byington's anti-heroes are social misfits without ambition, but they're refreshingly unapologetic guilt - free charmers, and Max is no exception.

Eloise (Anna Kendrick) finds herself trapped next to an awkward teen (Tony Revolori) and other social misfits at her oldest friend's wedding reception — where the best man is her ex — in «Table 19.»

It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.

Women that elect to seek partners abroad are not submissive and men that seek foreign women are not all abusive social misfits.

An unemployed - but intelligent - social misfit goes on the run to London following a back alley rape, but finds The Capital just as desperate and alienating as his native Manchester.

Was he an extreme social misfit?

Director / Co-writer Adam McKay highlights the inherent humor of each character's situation, while his leads embrace their roles as social misfits.

If not for the energetic performances of its stars, this would easily be at the top of the college social misfit heap in terms of sheer awfulness, Every single facet of the film's development hinges on an extreme contrivance, which requires an inordinate amount of suspension of disbelief to go with.

Young social misfit befriends the mysterious new girl in his apartment complex.

A fascinating portrait of a brilliant social misfit who intuited a way to involve humankind race in the Kevin Bacon Game.

In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles.

In the sanatorium she meets various social misfits, men and women who just can not adjust themselves to life, people who need the help Mrs. Savage can provide.

Or does it just keep sending social misfits out the door?

Blackguards was a dark, gritty turn - based strategy RPG where you would lead a team of social misfits into battle within a hostile and dangerous world.

Let's just leave all fear about breeding social misfits to Mummy then shall we?

While it may be tempting to dismiss their owners as obsessive eccentrics and social misfits who prefer canines to humans, FOR THE LOVE OF DOG reaches beyond the stereotype to examine this bizarre sub-culture.

Utterly enjoyable, this book's culture - meets - romantic - confusion focus makes it a teen take on Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (1995), and it should hit home with social misfits and «subnormals.»

Online Dating is not a last resort for social misfits.

When a brusque, reclusive fishmonger living a hardscrabble existence in the wilds of Nova Scotia employs Maud as his live - in housekeeper, the two social misfits find unexpected love and a lifetime partnership.

An unequipped social misfit — in this case Josh Futterman (Josh Hutcherson), a janitor at an STD clinic — becomes a hero?

Less outre than «Gummo» and «Julien Donkey - Boy,» Korine's most lavishly produced pic to date begins as a sweet - tempered tale of social misfits - turned - celebrity impersonators, but falls short of its ambition to say something meaningful about the obsessive nature of celebrity culture.

If you all chuckle at the same things, it's reassurance that you're not an outlier or some sort of social misfit.

Any sodomite will protray the godly of God to be the social misfits when the real misfits are the sodomizers!

Here is a man like himself, only more pathetic and miserable, with ludicrously impossible clothes — in every sense a social misfit and failure... [Yet] he has a protective air of mock dignity, takes the most outrageous liberties with people, and wears adversity as though it was a bouquet.

If my kids don't date anyone in high school, I will not be relieved, I will be worried about them being social misfits.

I suppose I was a social misfit, but is that always a horrible thing?

I didn't have «boy - friends» in high school and I am not a social misfit - I met my husband in college and we have been together for 24 years.

School itself is a lot of socializing so don't fret that your child will be a social misfit if she is not a social butterfly.

It would seem apparent to any intelligent lay observer that there are broadly three categories of prisoner: The first time offender, who can be saved with the necessary resources, the social misfit who ends up in prison often because there is nowhere else for him or her to go and the perpetual and habitual criminal who spends a lifetime in an out of prison.

They were depicted literally as criminals, sex pests and social misfits; the metaphorical descriptions were as snakes, foxes or tapeworms.

Chalked full of social misfits, narcissists, liars, cheaters and sad sacks.

Included amongst them were Robert Iscove's Boys and Girls, which cast the actor as a college student, and Amy Heckerling's Loser, in which Biggs again set foot on a college campus to play a social misfit in love with an unattainable girl (Pie co-star Mena Suvari).

The fourth friend, Alan (Zach Galifianakis) is painted as a slightly disturbed loner / social misfit who latches onto his new buddies in an unhealthy way, as well as saying and doing increasingly odd things; he's apparently aiming for laughs, but these antics land sickeningly, with silence.

This spoofy film about a social misfit being an unlikely badass is some good fun, if you enjoy the works of filmmakers like the Farrelly Brothers, Todd Philips and Judd Apatow.

Affleck, although arguably a little too glamorous to play a social misfit, puts in a very committed performance, never just relying upon ticks to portray his affliction.

The Basics: No, lovely Emma Watson doesn't play the social misfit.

Bernie is somewhat of a social misfit.

It's a farcical comedy with a dose of profundity and loads of adventure for two social misfits.

Ferrell favorite writer / director Adam McKay doesn't hit the comic alchemy of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but Wahlberg is terrific as the misguided maverick exasperated by his social misfit partner Ferrell.

Sure, no one died because of Facebook, but otherwise, it's the look - alike tale of a social misfit, his zeal and brains and toxic insecurities, and the friends he hurt in the name of success.