Sentences with phrase «social misfits in»

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).

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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.

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

Turn the clock back 20, 30, or 40 years and you would have these same exact remarks being made about unmarried North American women!!!! We were seen as social aberrations, deviants, misfits who - by the fact that we were pregnant and not married - had definitely proved that we were in no way qualified to raise our children.

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.

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

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.

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

Matthew Broderick was a hapless schoolteacher in «Election»; Jack Nicholson was an angst - ridden widower in «About Schmidt» and Paul Giamatti was a social - misfit, wine connoisseur in «Sideways».

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.

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.

A social misfit like The Comedian would therefore exhibit brutal sociopathic tendencies, mostly because his sense of morality is subverted by the amoral deeds he performs in the line of duty for his country.

Much like Adam & Paul, the characters of Frank are social misfits, living on the periphery of the norm and struggling to connect in a world that's not very inviting to them.

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 AngeleIn 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 Angelein 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.