Sentences with phrase «story of alias»

The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott (Kerr Logan), was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery (Anna Paquin), in 1843.

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Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... The Netflix original mini-series Alias Grace takes on the true story of a servant girl convicted of murder in 19th century Canada as reinterpreted by Margaret Atwood in her historical novel.

Although it's based on an original screenplay by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner (who all collaborated on «Lost» and «Alias,» among others), «The Amazing Spider - Man 2» incorporates one of the comic book's most famous story lines - one that forever changed the character and forced him to mature even faster.

Just head of its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Netflix has released a new trailer for Alias Grace, its six - part limited series inspired by the true story of convicted murderer Grace Marks.

«Twin Peaks» might well be too damn weird for their tastes, but it also felt like an event, which could give it an edge over «Top of the Lake: China Girl,» «Alias Grace» and «American Horror Story: Cult.»

«Alias Grace» is built around the unrelenting ambiguity of its protagonist, and it manages the Herculean effort of making a six - part miniseries thrum with that same sense of being adrift in a woman's story without having any idea of who she really is.

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Alias Grace tells the story of a 19th - century maid, Grace Marks, who was convicted and then later pardoned for the double murder of her employer and his mistress.

But, to its credit, Alias has a very intriguing premise and does a great job of sucking the viewer into the story.

«Alias Grace» is based on the true story of a poor Irish immigrant, housemaid Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who is locked up in an Ontario penitentiary for double murder.

Subsequently jailed and blacklisted as a consequence of alleged «subversive activities in the motion picture industry,» he moved his family for a time to Mexico and wrote movies under various aliases — including «Robert Rich,» the name he used on «The Brave One,» which won him an Oscar for best story in 1956.

ALIAS: Mitzi & Mack - Humorous crime set in South Florida -»... a fast - paced screwball comedy reminiscent of It Happened One Night, Some Like It Hot, and The Philadelphia Story, but with a racier plot line and a razor sharp assessment of love, lust, marriage, and money in the iPhone era... dialogue that crackles...»

In a particular department at this ministry, a man with the alias Porfiry Petrovich (yes, the detective in charge of solving Raskolnikov's murders) is responsible for carefully reading books, in particular novels and shortstory collections, and especially love stories.

The character of Joseph Anton (Rushdie's alias while in hiding) is written in the third - person he, allowing the present - day Rushdie some distance from his targeted former self, and giving the story a sense of fiction (because how could something like a novelist - directed fatwa be real life?).

This has included finding the founding members of the Guerrilla Girls through the secret network, flying to meet them, photographing them, recording their oral histories and archiving their story, researching their alias, assembling the alias» works, and creating artworks from the combination of all these elements to spin a red thread that runs through ancient time to now, and into the future.

With «Alias Man Ray,» a museum tells the story of a Jew's constant reinvention.