Sentences with phrase «tale about young man»

Other finalists include Eliot Schrefer's «Threatened,» a tale about young man studying chimpanzees, Steve Sheinkin's «The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights,» Deborah Wilies for «Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two,» and John Corey Whaley for «Noggin.»

James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, and Bill Nighy lend their voices to this holiday tale about a young man on a mission to save Christmas.

Not exact matches

Oh, this is totally random, but have you ever seen the film «Lilies», which won four Genie Awards in 1996, about the two young men of Roberval, Quebec who fall in love in 1912 — and the poignant tale of how their love is undone by jealousy?

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a powerful, epic tale of forbidden love, based on the acclaimed # 1 best seller, in which an idealistic young man finds his destiny in a magical place filled with adventure, wonder and great danger... I don't know about you gals but I think that is a recipe for awesomeness.

What starts as a revenge tale unconvincingly morphs into a bitter, lonely middle - aged man bonding with a young Indian kid (whose parents don't seem to feel one way or another about this weird man hanging out with their kid alone in a hotel, giving him copies of Maxim magazine).

As more young men (and women) learn about sex almost exclusively from pornography, Don Jon's blatant take is both shocking and a bit dull at first, but warms up to reveal a good old - fashioned morality tale.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, smoking and brief war violence) Brad Pitt shares the title role with several other actors in David Fincher's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale about a man born old who gradually grows younger over the course of his life.

The old man mistakenly, perhaps intentionally, sees the connection between the boy's «Lone Ranger» hat and mask and spins a yarn about the real Lone Ranger, taking the tale of an era when the Native, revealed to be cohort Tonto (Depp, Dark Shadows), was a much younger man, and one of the last of the proud Comanche tribe.

In telling this tale, a narrative about a young man's unforgiving and demanding talent and its impact upon the journey into fatherhood, Have You Seen The Listers?

Rarely has a film been as honest about sexuality — in both depiction and discussion — as this tale of a one - night stand that develops into a weekend - long idyll for two very different young men (exciting screen newcomers Tom Cullen and Chris New) in the English Midlands.

FORBIDDEN LOVE In The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon offers a stirring tale about two unlikely lovers: Homan, a deaf black man, and developmentally disabled Lynnie, who is young and white.

Omnibus of two novels, Seventh Son (1987) and Red Prophet (1988), first two books in the series The Tales of Alvin Maker, about a young man with supernatural