Sentences with phrase «stars as a young woman»

«The Age of Adaline,» «April 24 Blake Lively («Gossip Girl») stars as a young woman who's rendered ageless after an accident.

Claire Foy stars as a young woman who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution; other than that, the only thing we know about the film is that Jay Pharoah and Juno Temple are in the cast.

Olsen stars as a young woman who goes to live with her estranged sister (Sarah Paulson), and brother - in - law (Hugh Dancy), after running away from an abusive cult.

Elizabeth Olsen (sister of Ashley and Mary Kate) stars as a young woman who escapes from an evil cult and struggles to reconnect with her estranged sister (Sarah Paulson) and her new brother - in - law (Hugh Dancy).

Shrouded in secrecy before its release, Jennifer Lawrence stars as a young woman settling into life with her husband (Javier Bardem), a poet with writer's block.

Not exact matches

And Britain's equalities minister recently touted Christina Hendricks, the curvy star of Mad Men, as a healthy role model for young women.

For example, Howie Goldklang, co-owner of The Establishment, a hair salon and spa in Milwaukee, occasionally targets young women in Milwaukee whose pages mention the names of pop stars such as Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

As president of Professional Diversity Network (PDN), Star is among the youngest of a small group of African - American women to lead a public company in the US.

A young girl and a woman embrace as they leave a funeral service for Alyssa Alhadeff at the Star of David Funeral Chapel in North Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.

Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood star as the ne'er - do - well son of a wealthy Southern family and the sheltered young woman he begins to fall for in Barefoot, a romantic comedy from director Andrew Fleming (Dick, Hamlet 2) and writer Stephen Zotnowski.

A romantic comedy about lazy rich people on holiday in Italy in the 1930s, it stars Helen Hunt as a gold - digging woman «of a certain age» who's stalking a young married couple — for third - act catharsis reasons you can see coming — and causing snippy, gossipy society people to make snippy, gossipy comments.

Of course, to this entrancingly guileless young woman (Kilcher, 14 years old at her debut performance, appears herself to be a self - possessed young woman of ravishing beauty and openness), her own people are as familiar as the old sun and moon while it's Smith who twinkles like a new star.

Rosalind Chao stars as Lalu Nathoy, a young woman sold into marriage by her impoverished father in late 19th century China.

The majority of these projects constituted sentimental, family - friendly melodramas, such as the 2001 Follow the Stars Home (with Williams as a young woman deserted by her husband after she gives birth to a deformed baby) and the 2002 outing The Christmas Shoes (as a mother dying of congenital heart failure).

Along with acting in Broadway and off - Broadway plays in the late»90s, Williams also played the young Sharon Stone in the film version of Sam Shepard's Simpatico (1999), joined the ensemble cast of the romantic comedy Just a Little Harmless Sex (1999), and starred as a contemporary young woman transported to fairytale land in the splashy NBC miniseries The 10th Kingdom (2000).

Thewlis stars as Johnny, an intelligent but shiftless young Brit whose bitterness — at women, at the government, at God, and at himself — is all - consuming, causing him to viciously lash out at everyone in his path.

Based on the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood stars Amanda Seyfried as Valerie, a young woman engaged to marry the town blacksmith but in love with an orphaned woodcutter.

Revenge thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as a man haunted by the memory of his daughter's death, who comes to the aid of a young woman who is being viciously harassed by a rogue cop.

With Tron: Legacy «s Garret Hedlund in final talks to star as Kaneda, the gang leader, and Kristen Stewart offered the role of Ky Reed, a woman who is part of an underground movement to expose the government for turning orphans into living weapons (she also may possess some abilities herself), the big question now is who will play Tetsuo, the young man whose latent powers will release the powerful being known as Akira?

Kristen Stewart stars as Amy Cole, a young woman who joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots.

The dark thriller stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman in 1867 Paris whose aunt, Madame Raquin, is forcing her into an arranged marriage with her rich, but sickly, first cousin (Tom Felton).

Set in 1950s Ireland, Saoirse Ronan stars as young Irish woman Eilis, who is given the chance to move away from her tiny countryside village to the bustling streets of Brooklyn, New York.

Olsen stars in the 1860s Paris - set thriller as the titular character, a beautiful but sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage with Camille (Felton), her sickly cousin.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen) with a screenplay penned by Richard Wenk (The Mechanic), The Equalizer also stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a young woman who crosses Robert's path and leads him into starting a fight with some of the most dangerous people in Boston.

Brooklyn is John Crowley's eagerly anticipated period drama based on Colm Toibin's award - winning novel, and stars Saoirse Ronan as a young woman from small - town 1950s Ireland who moves to New York and falls in love.

Stockholm, Pennsylvania stars Ronan as a young woman returned home to her biological parents (Cynthia Nixon, David Warshofsky) after living with her abductor (Jason Isaacs) for 17 years.

Also on the platform are Dreamland, where Simmons stars as a piano player who begins an affair with an older woman, and The Late Bloomer, where he plays a guy whose testosterone kicks in just a few years later than most young men.

You can't go wrong with any of these fine thrillers but today I'd like to single out Cast a Dark Shadow, a gripping and remarkably grim British production starring Dirk Bogarde as a suave young Romeo who seduces wealthy older women for financial gain and then murders them in cold blood.

Liv Tyler stars as a young American woman vacationing in Italy with a group of her late mother's artist friends.

Tessa Thompson stars as Ollie, a young woman who is finishing out her probation after she was arrested for illegally bringing prescription pills for her terminally ill mother over the Canadian border.

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Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.

The horror film stars Diego Boneta (from «Scream Queens» and Rock of Ages) as an American tourist who ends up in the town of Medellin in Colombia, befriending a local woman (played by Maria Mesa) who introduces him to «group of young misfits» that call themselves the «Dead Men».

A nominee for Most Promising Performer of 2017 by the Chicago Film Critics Association, Jessie Pinnick stars as a young lady who grows closer to two women, one an aunt with whom she lost contact for a long time but knew her when she was younger, the other another young lady who becomes her girlfriend.

The film stars Anne Hathaway as a young woman who returns home after her brother is injured (Ben...

It is a film that subverts expectations — and at the heart of it all is star - on - the - rise Jessie Buckley, who delivers a mesmerising turn as Moll, a young woman who finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the black sheep of her community.

Based on Jeannette Walls» 2005 autobiography, The Glass Castle stars Larson as Walls, a young woman who grows up amid a dysfunctional, poverty - stricken family, including alcoholic father Rex (Harrelson) and artist mother Rose Mary (Watts).

Trishna stars Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) as a young woman from the lower classes who meets and falls in love with a young British businessman (Riz Ahmed).

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The former star of Sundance standout «Filly Brown» is garnering critical adoration for her starring role on the CW's new dramedy, as a young woman who finds herself both a virgin and pregnant.

Director Harmony Korine offers a first look at his sex romp starring James Franco as a drug dealer who gets involved with four bank robbing young women.

The late Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel provides the groundwork for this dramedy adaptation starring Paul Giamatti (Fred Claus, The Nanny Diaries) as the titular Montreal television producer Barney Panofsky, a man who has suffered through one tragic marriage with a free - spirited young woman in Italy (Lefevre, Twilight) who turns up carrying another man's child only to get himself into another loveless one with a well - to - do Jewish - American princess (Driver, Ella Enchanted), while he only has eyes for a woman he barely knows in another part of the country (Pike, Surrogates).

The film appears as interested in developing the strange relationship between Korben and the two young women as it is in exploring the possibility that Kate can really speak with spirits (for a far superior TIFF film that explores this idea, see Olivier Assayas» «Personal Shopper» starring Kristen Stewart).

Other powerful performances by women that should not be forgotten during nominations are Annette Bening's dead - on turn as Gloria Grahame in «Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool,» Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in «Lady Bird»; Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in «I, Tonya,» the young new - to - acting Brooklynn Prince in «The Florida Project,» and Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige in «Mudbound.»

Tallulah stars Ellen Page as a young drifter who takes a baby from a negligent mother, with Allison Janney playing a woman who thinks she's the baby's grandmother.

Fox's awards campaign is leaning into the women who helped to make this movie, from producer Amy Pascal and star Streep to young screenwriter Liz Hannah, as well as the central role Graham played in a patriarchal business culture that was unprepared to accept powerful women in its ranks.

In her feature film debut, «American Idol» sensation Jordin Sparks stars as Sparkle, a young woman whose big dreams seem almost impossible.

Max Winkler's film stars Zoey Deutch as a young woman on the cusp of adulthood.

I Could Never Be Your Woman (MGM, February 14) Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Tracey Ullman, Fred Willard, Henry Winkler Director: Amy Heckerling Rating: PG - 13 The Pitch: A mom (Pfeiffer) falls for a much younger guy (Rudd) as her daughter is also falling in love for the first time.