Sentences with phrase «sweet film about»

Class Rank is a sweet film about the friendship of Veronica and Bernie.

Class Rank is a sweet film about teenagers finding their place in society by speaking out about interests that they care about.

Richard Curtis has found a Hugh Grant replicant to star in his daft but sweet film about love and time - travel, writes Peter Bradshaw

Not exact matches

There can be something sweet and even radiant about Sonia's hopefulness (as in Brooke Smith's lovely performance in Louis Malle's film Vanya on 42nd Street); but there is certainly something deeply sad about her resignation to incomprehension, to the failure of understanding, on this side of the grave.

While a film about unwittingly ordering raw steak on the first awkward date with his now wife was sweet and funny, my favourite film was about an old family tradition involving pie.

The sweet woman giving us our tickets was a bit taken back when she saw how young our boys were and wondered why they were about to see this film and not a kid's movie.

There is, however, cake provided, and the films should get you and your date talking about the big issues in life, and eating something sweet.

I mean, all of our women here walk around barefoot, like the rednecks we all are, so if this film is about going barefoot, then it must be about my sweet home.

This is probably the nicest, sweetest, most wholesome film about death ever.

This is a sweet 100 minute film about life and accepting certain things throughout it.

She is also stars in the Syfy original movie «American Horror House», which premieres Saturday, October 13 at 9:00 p.m. Media Mikes had a chance to chat with the beautiful and sweet Morgan Fairchild about her this Syfy film and how she prepares for a role.

I didn't know much about Brad Anderson's upcoming horror film The Vanishing on 7th Street, but after seeing the trailer I think the film looks pretty sweet.

Of the three competition films I've seen thus far (Tale of Tales and Sea of Trees, I liked Our Little Sister best, a quiet, sweet, and heartbreaking film about three grown, co-habitating sisters, who meet their younger fourteen - year - old sister, Suzu (Suzu Hirose) after their absent father dies, and decide to take her in as one of their -LSB-...]

Besides that, it's actually a pretty sweet video of some of the cast talking about their memories of the original animated film as well as their impressions of the live - action version.

There's a sweet - natured «Introduction by Don Knotts» (2:47, SD); his age is advanced, but he has warm feelings about the film.

Aficionados of boxing will recognise that this is more about the rise of Ward than the complete story, but nonetheless this is a superb film no matter how you feel about «the sweet science».

Amazing, then, that after such early missteps, the film takes a sweet, lighthearted turn once the nostalgic Gil — whose novel is about a man dreaming of the past — finds himself transported to his beloved 1920s Paris every night when the clock strikes twelve.

An - a film about sweet red bean paste and the simplicity of happiness Naomi Kawese's film An, which translates to Sweet Red Bean Paste, is one of the surprises, at least for me, at the festival so far.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

The one thing we talked about from the beginning, ice cream is such a theme in the film, was that it had to be sweet and sour at the same time.

The movie may not be a masterpiece, and it's not anything that's going to win big awards, but as a sweet and touching film, it's about as perfect as it could be.

The Intouchables (2012) Often times, stories about the power of friendship are overwrought, yet this film keeps the perfect balance of the sweet and realistic.

It's lyrical, sweet and even though it doesn't feature Jane Fonda's much talked about wild, scene - stealing turn, it manages to evoke the sense of longing for the past that that lives up to the film's title.

That's a beautiful sentiment that is carried over to this wondrous and heartwarming movie, a rare feel - good live - action film for the whole family that is about who we are on the inside, a sweet story with a strong message about doing the right thing.

Fans of «Appropriate Behavior» won't be disappointed in Desiree Akhavan's sweet, compassionate yet brutally honest film about surviving gay conversion therapy.

Letter From An Unknown Woman, a very melancholy, sweet film, was on television all the time until he was about 12 years old.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Aasif Mandvi hits his (very odd, in fairness) role at about twice the volume and pace of anyone else, Justin Bartha barely figures, Mia Farrow is sweet enough, but doesn't make much of an impact, and Christopher Walken is interestingly restrained, adhering to normal human punctuation for the first time in recent memory, but at the same time, hiring Walken to play an average suburban dad is about like hiring Jason Statham for a film where he doesn't punch someone in the face.

While Dave McCary's film largely avoids dealing with dark reality, it crafts a sweet, uplifting message about the power of creativity.

Chocolat, a film about chocolate addiction, was extremely sweet.

Funny thing, I didn't know much about the story before seeing the film but I saw «Spielberg» and «Spies» in the title and thought «sweet a Spielberg espionage thriller».

Given that this is a film where food is frequently used as a weapon — emotionally and otherwise — there's something weirdly sweet about seeing Day - Lewis and co-star Lesley Manville embrace the silliness of the moment.

Surely she would have loved 50/50, a film about cancer that aims for that sweet spot.

When: October 24th Why: I was originally going to write about Lynn Shelton's sweet coming - of - age comedy «Laggies,» but after hearing so many great things about «John Wick» after its debut at this year's Fantastic Fest, it seemed crazy not to highlight that film instead.

For a film about people who have sex in public places, this film is strangely sweet and shy about sex.

And he's so sweet about the film, «cause he says that, for him, making the film was exactly the same experience as what happens to the character: he arrived on a boat and found Bill Nighy and Philip Seymour Hoffman instead of arriving on a boat and finding The Count and Gavin.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to a short but sweet featurette about the close friendships formed while making the film, the Blu - ray also includes a pair of audio commentaries.

Grant turned down a fifth film with Hitchcock to do this odd, sweet little movie about the 1964 summer Olympics in Tokyo, his last movie.

The Hollywood Reporter's Michael Rechtshaffen says The Disaster Artist, which Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber adapted from Greg Sestero's book about the ill - fated production, «strikes a giddy, winning balance between hilarity and heart» while Indiewire's Ben Travers says the film tells a «disarmingly sweet story about best friends seeking the Hollywood dream.»

It's a sweet, small, beautifully written film, everything that we know and love about Anderson — the geometric framing, the»70s AM radio rock hits, the ironic non-sequiturs, deep focus photography, the comedy of depression — is all there for the taking.

A serious - minded and decidedly adult fairy tale about a virginal young woman who learns from her brother (Malcolm McDowell) that they are descended from a race of human - panther hybrids doomed to revert to their murderous feline state while making love to anyone outside of their own bloodline — a problem as she has just fallen in love with a sweet - natured zookeeper (John Heard) who specializes in big cats — this is a film swimming in sex, violence, poetry, philosophy and swanky visuals in such extremes that it always seems to be on the verge of becoming utterly ridiculous but it somehow never goes over the edge into camp because of Schrader's serious - minded handling of the material; it may be nonsense but he never treats it as such.

Wonder Boys is about characters and interactions; it's about one of our most talented screenwriters, Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Flesh and Bone), working at the absolute top of his profession; and it's about a cast so very sublime and dead solid perfect that wondering what will happen next doesn't drive the film so much as hoping that whatever it is takes its sweet time: We want these people to stay put.

This short - and - sweet interview with Edgar Wright, whose latest fantastic film The World's End is his best work yet, features the British director imparting — over the phone — details about some of his very favorite movies and ones that...

There's nothing overly memorable about «St. Vincent» but it's a sweet, enjoyable film.

The film's been criticised for failing to capture the music scene, but director John Cameron Mitchell explains he just wanted to make a sweet story about love

It must be said right off the bat that Tenenbaums isn't quite as unconventional as Anderson's first two films, for this one can comfortably be described in a simple manner; it's about the dramas within a family, and the story leads to expectedly sweet messages of love and togetherness.

Briefly, I thought it was sweet, and how many animated films can we say that about nowadays?

If I might give Kazurinsky the very faintest of faint praise, his yin - and - yang dynamic with Bobcat Goldthwait is far and away the best thing about the film, with the possible exception of its sweet, sweet 80 minute runtime and fleet pacing.

Matthew McConaughey sets down his bongos and returns to the world of legally themed film adaptations with «The Lincoln Lawyer,» inspired by the Michael Connelly novel about an attorney whose days of living in the back of his car seem to be over when he picks up a sweet gig defending a wealthy playboy accused of murder — but, of course, nothing is as it seems.

The film is a sweet, wise, meandering tale about life, love, work and families, and we're never less than a few scenes away from a good meal or drink.