As the election recedes from view, let us not fall back into our bad habits, and forget the rural and small
town kids who need our help, too.
His performance really was a «coming out,» as he did his best to present a normal, small
town kid who becomes «unbalanced» and psychotic due to his traumatic experiences at the hands of the North Vietnamese.
The plot of «the small
town kid who strikes it big and realizes what he always dreamt of isn't what it was cracked up to be» has been done so often and so much better that it basically negates this film's reason to exist.
Not exact matches
The working women
who clean their homes and mind their
kids live in a shanty
town outside the gated community.
It was created by three moms
who understand the struggle of getting
kids around
town safely.
I know many people raised in holiness churches
who'd load their
kids up and take them three
towns over to see a forbidden movie so that no one in their church would find out.
During a stop in one gray stone village for a bathroom break, he whipped out the Opinel knife he keeps in the glove compartment to cut through some donkey - meat salami we'd bought a few
towns ago and served it to the
kids,
who gobbled it down like hungry birds.
Alexis was a street
kid who has travelled the world plying his trade — I have read quite a bit on Pedro being quite the home -
town boy.
A man
who'd gone shoeless growing up in a two - bedroom shack after his daddy went bankrupt during the Depression, and then found his calling in a
town that once postponed Halloween because it fell on a game night, and molded the lives of 1,700 of its
kids because he never cut a player.
Mayasich, born in the mining
town of Eveleth in 1933, grew up to be a rangy, rawboned
kid (six feet, 180 pounds)
who was a natural at every sport he tried.
All I know is that when I had two
kids under two, and a husband
who was out of
town half the time, CIO was pretty much the difference between repeatedly slapping my eighteen - month - old out of sheer exhaustion and frustration, and the sane and happy family life we have now.
Everyone knows that if you're the parents
who buy their
kid the jumbo - sized trampoline,
kids across
town are going to come running over to your house to do backflips into the yard and potentially smash their teeth in.
Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the
town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her
kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys
who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.
But just ask the
kids who played on my soccer teams, especially the players
who were told by the
town travel soccer club that they weren't good enough to play travel soccer but
who, after playing on one my teams, went on to play high school varsity soccer.
And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my
kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one
who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and
who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in
town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and
who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.
We currently have no peanut allergies at our school but I have friends
who have
kids with peanut allergies and many schools in surrounding
towns have started to ban peanut products.
It's not just a Halloween DVD though - if you haven't seen Gravity Falls, it's about two
kids who move to a strange
town that has a bunch of...
We are all neighbors, regardless of political enrollment,
who run into one another at the grocery store, watch our
kids grow up in local schools, participate in local community groups, and enjoy the best our unique
town has to offer.
John Perry, his
town's former assessor and a longtime fixture for his coaching of local
kids» sports teams, will be the new
town supervisor in Hurley after the counting of absentee ballots on Monday, November 20 gave him 13 more votes than former Woodstock supervisor and now West Hurley resident Tracy Kellogg,
who was making her third run for the position on Democratic, Green and Working Family party lines.
At the other end of the spectrum, Jeff Beals,
who repeatedly reminded the crowd he taught school in Woodstock and that his
kids played on the playground at the community center, probably should be running for
town board.
That number did not even include the local
kids who were too young for school,
who went to private school, or
who lived just over the
town line.
Last December I went on a lovely family getaway to Miami, then January came and one of my friends —
who also happens to be an amazing PR girl — asked me if I was up for a different Miami experience... No
kids, a boutique apartment with one of my favorite New York blog friends, and hosting a few events at some of the hottest spots in
town.
If you are one of the Kiwi singles
who just can't make up their mind about having
kids, then you can find equally confused company in Stratford in Taranaki, a farming
town that earns the title of most indecisive place in the country (at least where children are concerned).
This was the SAME guy
who ended up leaving
town to go back to the estranged wife from hell
who treated his
kid so badly.
Beyond that, «Rise» also focuses on the
kids who make up the high school in this depressed, working class
town.
Kenny Wormald takes the Kevin Bacon role of Ren, a hard - edged Boston
kid who moves in with relatives in the small Georgia
town of Bomont, which is still recovering from a tragedy that inspired the passage of several rules about teenage behavior, among them a dance ban.
Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker
town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four
kids in his gym class
who excel at running.
Kenny Wormald stars as a city
kid who moves to conservative Midwestern
town: «Once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a...
Kenny Wormald stars as the city
kid who moves to conservative Midwestern
town and once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the
town...
But with Elastigirl (voiced by Holly Hunter) leaving hubby Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) home with the
kids, there's a new sheriff in
town who's not going to suppress her feminist mojo.
We have a murder, an author
who dreams about conversations with Edgar Allen Poe (Ben Chaplin), a surreal and eclectic small
town, Emo Goth
kids and for the most part no discernible direction for the story.
Alan helps the
kids out of their predicaments, but he is still bound to play, as well as Sarah (Hunt, Jerry Maguire),
who is still in
town.
The new -
kid - in -
town premise is, yes, exceedingly dull, particularly when it feels obliged to deal in a few fairly annoying characters
who help expand the environment beyond Zach's new home.
And there's a dangerous new
kid in
town, a «Jackass» - y guerrilla performer (Jim Carrey, doing pretty much what Tom Cruise did in «Rock of Ages» — self - serious preening, with weirdly off - kilter timing)
who gives the bloodthirsty public what it wants: violence, drills to the skull, that kind of thing.
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary high school
kids who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small
town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat.
There's the intrigue of a nameless hero whose past forces him into action, and the threat of a villainous
kid,
who likes to shoot off his mouth almost as much as he likes to shoot his pistol, terrorizing a small, struggling mining
town.
A corrupt small -
town sheriff is on the hunt for two runaway
kids who took his car on a joy ride in Cop Car, an unnervingly funny thriller now available on Digital Read More →
It's March in Lake Victoria and Sherriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames) have their hands full patrolling the 5,000 plus college
kids who have descended on the
town to celebrate in licentious abandon their week - long school recess, that annual rite - of passage known as spring break.
Dress shopping, hair appointments, the
who's
who of the
town... no it isn't Hollywood's award season, it's that time of year all (okay, the socially normal) high school
kids wait for; prom!
The
Kid is a self - absorbed braggart
who tries to buy his way to the best trainer in
town.
The film follows a group of college
kids who travel to a small
town of Madison County in order to interview an autho,
who authored a book about the murders that happened there.
But things get complicated when he meets Elliot (Antonio Marziale), a handsome and charming gay
kid from the other side of
town,
who unwittingly sends Alex on a rollercoaster journey of sexual identity, kicking off a hilarious and moving exploration of love, sex and friendship in our liberated and confusing modern times.
The Magic of Belle Isle is a dramedy about a «wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural
town, where he befriends a single mother and her three
kids,
who help reignite his passion for writing.»
The story, adapted from Alan Snow's book Here Be Monsters, introduces the titular beasties
who live underneath the charming streets of a small, quirky
town and
who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their
kids.
, introduces the beasties
who live underneath the streets of a small, quirky
town and crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their
kids.
Most people remember it as a rock «n» roll flick about a
kid who brings back dancing to an uptight Midwestern
town where the local preacher has successfully had it banned.
This is the story of a bunch of
kids who stumble across a supernatural secret in their small
town: a demon that appears in the guise of a clown called Pennywise.
They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another
who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the
kids in
town.
It was clear to me and my classmates 40 years ago, as we gazed out the window during English class in our all - boys high school (a Catholic seminary) and watched the teenage
kids from
town «making out» on a stone wall; at least it was clear to Father Ignatius,
who would threaten a «bastinado with salt rubbed in the wounds» if we didn't focus on the sentence that needed diagramming.
And they sometimes attract talented adults — and the firms that employ such folks — to move to
town because they can see education offerings there that they want for their daughters and sons,
kids who may become tomorrow's scientists and engineers and thus help boost the nation's competitiveness in the global market.