Sentences with phrase «tale of survival about»

Runoff (R for drug use) Rural tale of survival about a desperate woman (Joanne Kelly) who will to stop at nothing to keep a failing, family farm threatened with foreclosure afloat after her husband (Neal Huff) falls ill.

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Andy Weir, author of «The Martian», a realistic tale of survival in space, is about to release his second and highly anticipated novel, «Artemis».

It's a survival tale at its core, only less about resourcefulness and perseverance than it is about how desperate circumstances challenge our moral compass and our belief systems — such as notions of faith, compassion, forgiveness, and trust.

(2015) dir Ryan Gosling w / Christina, Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith, Ben Mendelsohn, Eva Mendes, Barbara Steele [95 min; DCP] LOST RIVER is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger.

But in some ways, writer - director J.C. Chandor's story about an old man and the sea is a bolder film, eschewing backstory, sentimentality and even dialogue in favor of a primal tale of survival.

Fukasaku's final film stars «Beat» Takeshi Kitano in a grim, futuristic tale about a fascist high - school teacher and his sadistic class experiments, designed to illustrate the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest.

The Revenant (R for profanity, graphic violence, gory images, brief nudity and a rape) Adaptation of Michael Punke's tale of survival, set in Wyoming in 1823, about a frontiersman's (Leonardo DiCaprio) harrowing ordeal after being mauled by a bear and left to die in the wilderness by members of his hunting party.