Sentences with phrase «story thread involves»

The most promising story thread involves John (Alec Baldwin), a commercially successful — read sell - out — architect revisiting Rome for the first time since his college days, when he lived there for a year.

Parallel story threads involve a 9 - year - old Chechen boy, Hadji (Abdul - Khalim Mamutsiev), whose parents are killed by Russian soldiers and who's eventually quasi-adopted by Carole; the boy's older sister, Raïssa (Zukhra Duishvili), who's conducting the titular search, but winds up working in an orphanage run by an American (Annette Bening); and an ordinary young Russian, Kolia (Maxim Emelianov), whose forced induction into the army gradually transforms him from a sensitive, frightened kid into a heartless killer.

The story threads involving the three groups of people are not necessarily ordered in the way one expects, which complicates matters.

Not exact matches

In one scene, there is a character named Izzy (Page, To Rome with Love) who tries to bring down someone close to her whose company is involved in a major pollution scandal, but these moments don't ring as profound without anything to ground her character, and the way that this story thread evolves feels manufactured, which is evidenced by the lack of genuine emotion when the episode concludes in a traumatic way.

Phantom Thread is the story of an infinitely self - involved artist - entrepreneur who regularly supplies his atelier with women and then coldly disposes of them, as if they were the rags with which he wipes his shoes.

The least comic thread of the story involves Lopez's freelance photographer and her supportive but not - quite - ready - for - fatherhood husband (Rodrigo Santoro) as they prepare for adoption.

The stories are stitched together by a loose narrative thread involving a man (Paul Rudd) serving as narrator who is leaving his wife (Famke Janssen) for a younger ditz (Jessica Alba).

Ridley Scott's complex portrait of a con man (Nicholas Cage) who inhabits three story threads, all adequate to carry a film: (1) He's involved in complicated cons with his longtime partner (Sam Rockwell).

While those subplots are at least somehow connected to the main story, the same can not be said of the campy and altogether irritating thread involving a bitchy model (Heidi Klum) who carries on an affair with the brother — and partner — of her hairdresser husband.

It's a very basic narrative thread but one which can involve multiple elements that all combine to tell a story.