Sentences with phrase «tale of young boy»

A relatively small, contained and potentially beguiling tale of a young boy and large creature hoping to work together, despite a communication barrier, to find freedom.

Papo & Yo is a Puzzle - Platforming Adventure that follows the tale of a young boy named Quico and his best friend Monster, a huge beast with razor - sharp teeth and an addiction to poisonous frogs.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a heart - warming tale of a young boy called Oliver, who embarks on a journey into a parallel world to become a magician in an attempt to bring back his recently - deceased mother.

The tale of young boy taking his dog for a walk and not doing what he was told - therefore suffering the consequences of his actions!

Kubo and the Two Strings Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, action and peril Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97 % This stunning stop - motion animated film from Focus follows the tale of young boy who must hide from and eventually battle his aunts and grandfather with only his magical musical instrument, a monkey and a giant warrior beetle to protect him.

This beautifully hand - drawn project tells the tale of a young boy who goes on a quest to reunite his family when his father leaves for the city to find work.

Lucile Hadzihalilovic returns to directing with a surreal tale of a young boy on a remote island who develops a mysterious illness and is subjected to sinister medical treatments.

James Wan directs Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne in this terrifying tale of a young boy who becomes the host to wicked demons.

For 17 years, a tale of a young boy's toys warmed the hearts of audiences.

One comic that still gives me the creeps is Exorcists, a tale of young boy who prays to Satan and becomes possessed after falling asleep.

Everyone's heard of Fernando Meirelles» thrilling tale of young boys growing up in the violent neighbour of Rio de Janeiro — and with good reason.

Bolstered by another admirable performance by Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland fits into the genre of tales of young boys whose lives are affected for the better through the unconventional tutelage of an older teacher, who drives them to be the best they can be, even through the difficult moments in life.

Not exact matches

«Moonlight,» the coming of age tale of a young black boy in Miami, also won the best adapted screenplay statuette, while grief - driven independent drama «Manchester by the Sea» took home original screenplay.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

As a young boy I grew up with tales of Alex James.

Follow the adventures of Jack, a young boy with his head in the clouds and his nose in a book of fairy tales.

Young readers learn about the early life of a boy named Rump, destined to become the fairy tale baddie.

Lawyers for former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam today argued that the federal corruption charges against the pair — which allege that the elder Mr. Skelos obtained posh jobs for the younger from companies with business before the state — really tell a heartwarming tale of a «caring and concerned» father and his «rude,» «volatile» and «immature and emotional» 33 - year - old boy.

It's a sweet, sad tale of a crashed pilot meeting a young boy (the title character) who claims to be from a tiny asteroid called B - 612.

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

He would, of course, lose her for the young boy, but I'm sure he wouldn't lose Alice's affections even after «his charade had been exposed» because she is, like the boy, a good (in both meanings) fairy tale character.

One mother sobs as she recounts the tale of waiting for her child outside of an Internet café, watching the kids leave and looking for her young boy.

The story is described as a tale in which «a young boy attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates and his mother's terminal illness by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster.»

But for my money, Time Bandits is his best and purest fairy story: A young boy gets swept up with a group of diminutive thieves who travel through history, nabbing stuff, and this whimsical tale turns darker and scarier until it reaches an ending that still gives me chills.

In a visually sumptuous journey through the master's imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes.

WHAT: A coming - of - age tale that follows a boy named Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) from grade school to his first day of college, examining his relationship with his divorced parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) as he matures into a young man.

Mirai is a sort of fairy tale about a young boy who encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras.

In this heart - warming tale of unconditional love between father and son, the pursuit of an Indian cricketing legend's Ferrari makes a young boy's dreams of playing cricket at Lords a reality.

From that, Saint - Exupery spun a fanciful, faintly ethereal fable about a downed airman who finds himself face - to - face with a curious, blond - haired young boy who claims to be the sole inhabitant of a distant asteroid (# B - 612), and who regales the pilot with tales of the interplanetary travels that eventually brought him to earth.

Set mostly in the Land of the Dead, the animated tale of Miguel, a young boy eager to become a musician like his idol, despite his family's peculiar aversion to music, is a love letter to Día de los Muertos.

Burton gets back to being weird with his next film, titled Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, adapted from a series of young adult books about «bizarre tales and photos of levitating girls and invisible boys.»

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMboy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMBOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMboy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMBOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMboy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

But as he spins the tale of Buttercup and Westley (played with absolute sweetness by Robin Wright and Cary Elwes), the young boy — like the audience — is utterly charmed and held rapt.

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.

Writer - director Shane Meadows» (Dead Mans» Shoes, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands) semi-autobiographical tale (set in 1983, England) relates the story of 12 - year - old Shaun (Turgoose), a young boy who joins up with a gang of older skinheads after being bullied by his classmates in school.

Rylance will portray Pope Pius IX in this custody tale of a young Jewish yet baptized boy torn from his Italian family and thrust into a life in the Vatican.

«Wonderstruck» Release Date: TBD Director: Todd Haynes Starring: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Cory Michael Smith and Tom Noonan Synopsis: The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Which is not to say that Anderson doesn't try to inject father issues into the tale of concierge par excellence M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his tutelage of «Lobby Boy» orphan Zero (Tony Revolori), which leads from one flashback to another and back to a mid-current where Zero, grown into F. Murray Abraham, relates his sweeping tale of ruin to a half - interested author (Jude Law) who grows into Tom Wilkinson writing a book — who grows into a statue of the author played by Wilkinson, to which a young woman pays her respects whilst reading, yes, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

D - War Steve Jablonsky (2007) ** The Da Vinci Code Hans Zimmer (2006) **** Dad James Horner (1989) **** Damien: Omen 2 Jerry Goldsmith (1978) **** Damnation Alley Jerry Goldsmith (1977) ***** The Damned Frederik Wiedmann (2013) ** Dances with Wolves John Barry (1990) ***** The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Marco Beltrami (2002) *** Dante's Peak John Frizzell (1997) *** Daredevil Graeme Revell (2003) ** The Dark Edmund Butt (2005) **** The Dark Crystal Trevor Jones (1982) **** The Dark Knight Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard (2008) *** The Dark Knight Rises Hans Zimmer (2012) ** Dark Shadows Danny Elfman (2012) *** 1/2 The Dark Tower Tom Holkenborg (2017) * Dark Waves Alexander Cimini (2015) **** 1/2 The Darkest Hour Tyler Bates (2011) No stars Darkness Falls Brian Tyler (2003) **** D.A.R.Y.L. Marvin Hamlisch (1985) *** Dave James Newton Howard (1993) **** David and Bathsheba Alfred Newman (1951) **** Dawn of the Dragonslayer Panu Aaltio (2011) *** Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Michael Giacchino (2014) *** The Day After Tomorrow Harald Kloser (2004) ** 1/2 The Day the Earth Stood Still Bernard Herrmann (1951) ***** The Day the Earth Stood Still Tyler Bates (2008) ** Days of Heaven Ennio Morricone (1978) ***** Days of Thunder Hans Zimmer (1990) **** De Rouille et d'Os Alexandre Desplat (2012) **** The Dead Alex North (1987) **** Deadline Carlos José Alvarez (2009) **** The Deadly Spawn Michael Perilstein (1983) *** Deadpool Tom Holkenborg (2016) No stars Death Wish Ludwig Göransson (2018) * 1/2 The Debt Thomas Newman (2010) *** The Deep John Barry (1977) ** Deep Blue George Fenton (2004) **** 1/2 Deep Impact James Horner (1998) **** Deep in the Darkness Matthew Llewellyn (2014) **** Deep Rising Jerry Goldsmith (1998) *** 1/2 Deepwater Horizon Steve Jablonsky (2016) No stars Defiance James Newton Howard (2008) *** Deja Vu Harry Gregson - Williams (2006) * Demetrius and the Gladiators Franz Waxman (1954) **** Demolition Man Elliot Goldenthal (1993) **** The Demons of St Petersburg Ennio Morricone (2008) **** Denial Howard Shore (2016) *** 1/2 Dennis the Menace Jerry Goldsmith (1993) *** The Departed Howard Shore (2006) **** Desire Under the Elms Elmer Bernstein (1958) **** Desirée Alex North (1954) *** 1/2 Despite the Falling Snow Rachel Portman (2016) *** Destiny Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell and Paul McCartney (2014) **** The Devil's Brigade Alex North (1968) **** The Devil's Rejects Tyler Bates (2005) * The Devil's Tomb Bill Brown (2009) *** Diamonds are Forever John Barry (1971) **** 1/2 Diane Miklós Rózsa (1956) **** Diary of a Wimpy Kid Theodore Shapiro (2010) *** Dick Tracy Danny Elfman (1990) *** Die Another Day David Arnold (2002) * Die Hard Michael Kamen (1988) *** 1/2 Die Hard 2 Michael Kamen (1990) *** 1/2 Un Difetto di Famiglia Ennio Morricone (2002) *** 1/2 Dignity Éric Neveux (2012) *** 1/2 Dinner for Schmucks Theodore Shapiro (2010) *** Dinosaur James Newton Howard (2000) **** Disclosure Ennio Morricone (1995) ** 1/2 The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca Mark McKenzie (1997) ***** Django Luis Bacalov (1966) ***** Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde Mark McKenzie (1995) *** Doctor Strange Michael Giacchino (2016) **** A Dog's Purpose Rachel Portman (2017) *** Dolphin Tale 2 Rachel Portman (2014) *** Don Juan de Marco Michael Kamen (1995) ***** Donnie Brasco Patrick Doyle (1997) ** Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders (2011) *** 1/2 The Dove John Barry (1974) **** Dracula John Williams (1979) **** Dracula Untold Ramin Djawadi (2014) ** Draft Day John Debney (2014) *** Drag Me to Hell Christopher Young (2009) **** Dragonball: Evolution Brian Tyler (2009) *** 1/2 Dragonfly John Debney (2002) *** 1/2 Dragonheart: A New Beginning Mark McKenzie (2000) **** Drango Elmer Bernstein (1957) **** Dreamcatcher James Newton Howard (2003) * Dreamer John Debney (2005) *** Dreamkeeper Stephen Warbeck (2003) *** Drive Cliff Martinez (2011) *** 1/2 Drive Angry Michael Wandmacher (2011) ** Drop Zone Hans Zimmer (1994) *** A Dry White Season Dave Grusin (1989) **** The Duchess Rachel Portman (2008) *** Duck, You Sucker Ennio Morricone (1971) **** 1/2 Due Cuori, Una Cappella Stelvio Cipriani (1974) *** Duello nel Texas Ennio Morricone (1963) *** Dunkirk Hans Zimmer (2017) ** Duplicity James Newton Howard (2009) *** Dust to Glory Nathan Furst (2005) *** 1/2 Dutch Alan Silvestri (1991) ***

A Monster Calls is a visually spectacular drama about a young boy who attempts to deal with his mother's illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that deal with courage, loss and faith.

He'll direct the upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, and he's the writer of Disney's next princess tale, Moana, but before we see any of that, he has this New Zealand - made film about a young boy and his uncle who disappear into the bush and cause a national manhunt.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (19boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (19Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

With a pure heart and a hefty helping of ingenuity, the young boy tackles the evil forces that threaten his home and takes viewers along for a rollicking retelling of the age - old tale of King Arthur.

Teaming up with Colin Farrell (again) and Nicole Kidman (a first), Lanthimos sculpts a disturbing tale of a highly respected cardiologist who nurtures a strange relationship with a young boy, whose father died on his operating table.

A Monster Calls is a majestic tale of fantasy, life lessons and the struggles of coping, all while starring a young boy.

That children's story is based on the Cornish folk tale titled «Jack the Giant Killer,» which is decidedly not for children... it involves a young farm boy cutting off the legs and slicing open the stomachs of various giants during King Arthur's reign.

WHAT: A coming - of - age tale that follows a boy named Mason Evans, Jr. (Ellar Coltrone) from grade school to his first day of college and examines his relationship with his divorced parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) as he matures into a young man.

This Swedish import tells the tale of a bullied young boy who befriends a young vampire girl who has just moved in next door.

While some experts, educators, and writers dispute the existence of an alleged «boy crisis,» calling it a myth at best, other experts and indicators tell a different tale, one that includes compelling statistics pointing to a downward, multiyear trend in young male achievement.