Sentences with phrase «teenage protagonist»

In 1999, Doe reunited with Allison Anders and Kurt Voss for another film about the Los Angeles music community, Sugar Town, in which he gave a superb performance as a musician trying to hold his marriage and his career together; that same year, he also landed a recurring role on the TV series Roswell as Geoff Parker, father of teenaged protagonist Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby) and owner of Roswell diner The Crashdown Cafe.

Narrated by a 16 - year - old girl in Vermont, Bohjalian's suspenseful and provocative novel pushes some hot buttons — child homelessness, mental illness, nuclear energy — while creating one of the most memorable teenage protagonists in recent fiction.

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.

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

From there, the film feels a lot like a classic western, specifically the classic True Grit (1969), in that a snarky teenage protagonist must learn to adapt in order to survive in a harsh environment.

Left homeless and alone in Boston, he's become adept at surviving the toughest of circumstances, and for any other teenage protagonist, doing so would be enough to drive the narrative.

Westerfeld handles the spooky business of the infected town magnificently, spiking the eerie and inexplicable with moments of genuine horror while always keeping the emotional tensions of his highly accessible teenage protagonist at the center.

Just as Prep combines a maturity of narratorial tone and a jittery teenage protagonist, so Sittenfeld is an intriguing mix of self - deprecation and self - confidence.

The series always kept their main tropes; Chocobos, mostly angsty teenage protagonists, big world in turmoil, Cid, Air Ships etc..

On the hate side: the prose can be extremely clumsy, as it is in this paragraph where teenage protagonist Wade Watts describes the virtual car he constructed for himself in the vast online world where he spends most of his waking hours:

Because the movie features a teenage protagonist and stars teen - dream Liv Tyler, most reviewers have taken the director at his word when he's described «Stealing Beauty» as a «little» film.

Considering its teenaged protagonists, Clockstoppers comes in surprisingly short on content issues, even though adolescents and crooks employ nitrogen - shooting guns to slow down hyper - travelers.

«Margaret» rapidly unravels in the last third or so, along with the turbulent world of its teenage protagonist Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin).

Speaking of «Precious,» following the Sundance acclaim for that film's star Gabourey Sidibe and «An Education» ingenue Carey Mulligan, this marks the third wave of festival buzz for a young actress playing a teenage protagonist this year.

Big Mouth could be delightfully crude and hilariously blunt about the ids of its teenage protagonists, but it worked because of its equal - opportunity approach.

His novel was set in a dystopian future 2044 about a teenaged protagonist that simply wants to solve a 3 part quest in a virtual reality video game.

The best reason to see Noah Baumbach's blistering autobiographical divorce drama The Squid and the Whale (The Samuel Goldwyn Company) is Jeff Daniels as the teenage protagonist's father, Bernard Berkman, a novelist and a titan of self - absorption whose ego envelops his son like a squid.

While certainly less well - known than Schindler's List or La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni 1997)-- the film succeeds in capturing a sense of the moral complexity, even the absurdity of wartime through the eyes of its teenage protagonist.

Oliver Tate, the teenage protagonist of Joe Dunthorne's first novel, Submarine, brought to the minds of reviewers those two pimply aesthetes of the 20th century: Adrian Mole and Holden Caulfield.

YA / Mature Readers: Despite the graphic violence, older YAs will be able to relate to the teenage protagonist.

The teenaged protagonist, a quiet runaway named Charley, can't catch a break, despite his hard work and attempts to stay on the good side of the law.

Bring along the teenage protagonists of Bradbury's creepiest novel.

It's not Neil Gaiman (but it's almost that good), it's not typically YA (despite the teenage protagonists), it's not easily categorised (it's somewhere between metaphysics, magic and uhh, time travel, along with a really vivid depiction of a family failing to deal with grief and completely falling apart).

With its teenage protagonist, Maybe A Miracle has the potential to appeal to readers from the older teens through to adults, both men and women; and with subject matter that runs the gauntlet of hot topic subjects, including religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).

Told in alternating viewpoints from the two main characters, Josh and Nastya, the reader is given only partial glimpses at a time of the endurance race the two teenaged protagonists have had to run.

Another story envisioned as the first chapter in a trilogy, Julie Cross» 2012 novel is a time - travel adventure that has its teenage protagonist accidentally discovering his ability to move through time after he witnesses the murder of his girlfriend.