Sentences with phrase «teenage characters in»

YA / General Interest: Along with her usual riveting natural detail, Barr casts some teenage characters in heroic roles.

Not exact matches

Parker remains a bumbling boy throughout the entirety of «Spider - Man: Homecoming,» and for this reason alone makes the character feel so much more authentically teenaged in a way that his 26 and 28 - year - old Spider - peers never did.

A first teenage decision to try drink is almost always due to a lack of independence or character (much more so in the case of drugs); and hence it shows a lack of fortitude.

The storyline revolves around the principle character - Alex, a Canadian widower in his late forties who runs a secondhand book shop and has two teenage sons of college age.

we are a football club first and a business second... or should be... this is how all dictatorships end... the colonel of the EPL lost his marbles 5 seasons ago on my estimate... he has become a character from a gabriel garcia marquez short story... or is that just some teenage midfield prodigy he is trying to bring in from the Mexican third division...

Abril, for example, moved up on the top 100 list, thanks to April O'Neil, a fictional character played by Megan Fox in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

An added bonus: It comes in practically any color or character, from Frozen and Micky Mouse to Batman, Paw Patrol or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

A note on Hazel: The character in The Fault in Our Stars was based on a real teenage girl who was actually (though improbably) named Hazel.

The former Labour comms chief has written a new novel — My Name Is — in which the lead character, a teenage girl, battles against a descent into alcoholism.

True to classic TMNT - style gameplay and atmosphere, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an energetic, blazing beat»em up with four - person, local, drop - in / drop - out co-op (Wii system from Nintendo, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system only) and features character upgrades, secondary

Estes» debut feature's strength lies in its crackling intensity, ultra-sharp character insights and an affinity for teenage protagonists who look and sound like real teens.

Keener, who has to deal with a sudden loss during the last section of the film, achieves moments of searing emotion, and in the very last scene, another character figures prominently — a teenage friend of Keener's daughter — and the performance by Mikey Madison is one of the most eloquent in the film.

Beth's strength of character was admired by mums and their teenage daughters, and Anna's fresh beauty stirred lustful letching in dads and their sons.

Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as «One From the Heart» was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

Taking off from the format of a typical teenage sex comedy, Brickman deepens the characters and tightens the situations, filming them in a dark, dreamlike style full of sinuous camera movements and surrealistic insinuations.

In the immediate wake of Trainspotting, she could be seen playing the title character, a teenage prostitute, in Stella Does TrickIn the immediate wake of Trainspotting, she could be seen playing the title character, a teenage prostitute, in Stella Does Trickin Stella Does Tricks.

Well, what we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that it's a prequel to My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument that takes us back to the teenage years of the characters in the 1995 film... And least promising sequel of the week has to be Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, a cash - in scripted by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man behind such bad - boy music videos as «Smack My Bitch Up» and the 2002 meth - addict comedy Spun.

Although Negasonic Teenage and the pink - haired character whom we think is Surge accompany, or at least cross paths with, Deadpool in the field, it's unclear from the trailer whether they actually join his motley crew.

It explores the birth of the comic book genre in the Depression and the evolution of its caped characters through historic events (World War II) and changing social mores, beginning with the arrival of Superman, who sprang from the imagination of two Jewish teenage boys.

While we don't see much of him in the trailer, Colossus is seen alongside Brianna Hildebrand's Negasonic Teenage Warhead, although we're not quite sure what kind of connection these two characters have quite yet.

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

This time Fonda's character, Grace, is an old hippie letting it all hang out in Woodstock, New York; her daughter, played by Catherine Keener, is a right - wing attorney who shows up at the old homestead with her two teenage kids after her husband asks for a divorce.

Deadpool had to swap a character with Guardians Of The Galaxy in order to include Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her explosive kinetic powers in the movie.

McKeon went on to make his last teenage appearance in the 1985 comedy Mischief; that same year, he made his first grown - up appearance as the title character in the TV biopic Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story.

Mildred's teenage daughter, Angela (Kathryn Newton, in flashback), died less than a year before, raped and then set on fire; the scorched place where her body burned is still visible; Mildred is seething at the lack of progress in the case and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of the local police chief, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who, while understandably unhappy with the 40 - foot - high attacks on his character, is not unsympathetic to Mildred's pain.

In a smart move, Coogler and his co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, flesh out his personality by playing him against a large cast of supporting characters: his teasing teenage sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright); his friend W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya); M'Baku (Winston Duke), the leader of the hostile, mountain - dwelling Jabari tribe; Zuri (Forest Whitaker), an elder mystic of Wakandan ancestral ceremonies; the CIA operative Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman); the aforementioned Nakia and Okoye.

«Kurt Russell [«s Ego the Living Planet] in the new «Guardians» movie was the character that Fox swapped with Marvel to [change] Negasonic Teenage Warhead powers,» Wernick explained.

Empire has released a new photo from DEADPOOL showing Ryan Reynolds in - costume as film's title character and Brianna Hildebrand as young mutant Negasonic Teenage Warhead.

«In the updated take, Heathers picks up 20 years later, with Veronica (Ryder's character) returning home to Sherwood with her teenage daughter, who must contend with the next generation of mean girls: the Ashleys: the daughters of the surviving Heathers,» writes THR.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 features everything from an indestructible necklace that induces teenage angst, to the clichéd argument in which one of the characters runs away in tears and the other (in this case, Harry) is left staring blankly at the ground, contemplating his fate.

This time, the focus is on teenage Pio (Pio Amato), a minor character in the previous film, who becomes the man of the house after his father and older brother are both jailed for stealing electricity.

He may not have been captivating us quite as intensely since but he continues to give the impression he's turning a corner in his career, taking on characters more complex than your hard - partying teenage waster.

But though its pilot episode centered on sex - obsessed teenage boys (voiced by Kroll and John Mulaney) being taunted by a mystical creature called the «Hormone Monster» (also Kroll), the show succeeded in tackling the anxieties of its female characters (voiced by Jessi Klein and Jenny Slate) just as grossly and hilariously.

Brooklyn seemed to usher Ronan fully into adulthood, but here she gracefully pinwheels backward into youth, shifting constantly from self - conscious to stubborn to radiantly sincere — a whole teenage spectrum of traits, coexisting in one fully realized character, balanced precariously on the ledge between girlhood and womanhood.

And when Rooney Mara dropped out of Francesca Gregorini «s «Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes,» it was Scodelario who stepped in, as the title character, a teenage girl who becomes obsessed with her new neighbor.

Main character Chiron is played by three different actors over the course of the film: Alex R. Hibbert plays his younger self, Ashton Sanders plays his teenage years and Trevante Rhodes plays Chiron in his adult prime.

Newer characters are allowed more screen time in the new trailer especially his comic cohorts: Collossus (Andre Tricoteux), Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) and Angel Dust (Gina Carano).

He plays the title character, a seemingly ordinary teenage boy who discovered in the first film that his father is Poseidon, god of the ocean.

(Nick Jonas is less vibrant as the fifth wheel, a pilot character who's been stuck in the game since 1996, but his teenage fans won't really care.)

He is wel known for voice characters like Tiger Claw in «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles» to Chet in «Turbo FAST».

Cable will be joined in the movie by returning characters, including Briana Hildebrand's atomic - powered Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Stefan Kapicic's Colossus, as well as fellow newcomers including Zazie Beetz's fate - defying Domino and Firefist, played by teen actor Julian Dennison.

It's 1979, and California's ever - changing seaside town of Santa Barbara is a complicated place to grow up in for Dorothea's teenage son, whose world is changed forever by the arrival of Crudup's character.

In an era where teenage girls are either relegated to dumb - but - cute socialites or objects of some other teenage boy's (and sometimes older man's) desires, the character of Mattie Ross not only goes against the conventional grain by being anything but those things, but also is infused with riveting determination and conviction by Steinfeld's captivating portrayal.

Finally, he ended up one of the few studio - system, Hollywood character actors a teenage Black kid in the» hood could immediately identify.

Lady Bird as a character and film manages both tenderness and lawlessness; caught in the confuddling mix of teenage hormones and perceived oppressive parenting; rebelling against the grain, oft to her own detriment; Gerwig's capable filmmaking expertly capturing that claustrophobic feeling of teenage angst and insurgency; Saorsie Ronan performing the hell out of the role.

Parents should know that this film includes some slapstick humor, including a character whose false eye keeps popping out, criminal behavior involving a parent and teenage child, parent in prison, scary fire, business problems.

The titular character in Juno (Ellen Page) is a somewhat obtuse teenaged girl who, at the beginning of the film, discovers that she is pregnant.

In 2015, before Sony and Marvel Studios announced Holland had won the role of the teenage superhero, Riggs said the role «would've been awesome for me» and confirmed on Facebook he auditioned to play the character following the reboot of the Amazing Spider - Man franchise.

The character's introduction in Captain America: Civil War (more on that later) is built upon here as the film does a fantastic job of showing audiences Peter's teenage earnestness that it makes it feel more like a coming - of - age film than a superhero blockbuster.