Sentences with phrase «uplifting film about»

Finally following up his acclaimed 2006 debut Reprise, director Joachim Trier returns with a beautiful and uplifting film about drug addiction, depression and existential angst.

You could call it a propaganda piece, an uplifting film about sacrifice and duty in the face of war that celebrates the service of Britain's men in war and the endurance of the women (including Celia Johnson as Coward's wife) left behind.

Ultimately an uplifting film about friendship, The Station Agent will delight you and give you faith in your fellow man.

Not exact matches

Oddly, for a film about triumph over adversity, there's nothing as uplifting as the opening and closing jogs along a windswept beach.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an uplifting, gruff New Zealander film about family love.

This is a film about discovery and epic journeys, so viewers can expect to hear some uplifting music every now and then.

You can see the film as an uplifting story about a wife and mother overcoming the drudgery of domesticity and finding new meaning in her life.

There's no determining which of these issues is most important, so we'll go with the film we think is best: Heroin (e), which manages to include some uplift in its story about three women in Huntington, West Virginia, finding their own ways to combat the opioid epidemic.

While Dave McCary's film largely avoids dealing with dark reality, it crafts a sweet, uplifting message about the power of creativity.

Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon and an ensemble of young Sudanese actors — all of whom have direct personal ties to the war in their country — bring the inspiring and uplifting story of The Lost Boys of the Sudan to the screen in a film about heartbreak and hope, survival and triumph.

But there's too little of drama to compensate for our knowledge that a Disney - branded film about a rescue effort will end with triumphant uplift: the rescue itself, once it finally arrives, gives the film a second wind, but too much screen time follows that true climax.

And a rushed ending montage about the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act threatens to slip into the tone of nonspecific historical uplift that the film otherwise so successfully avoids.

Though I Kill Giants is ultimately an uplifting story about a young protagonist dealing with death and grief, the film is perhaps not best suited to very young viewers.

I really loved this harrowing yet uplifting book when I read it about 5 - 6 years ago, and so was a bit apprehensive when I went to see this film, especially considering that the book is from the perspective of the 5 year old boy.

Damien has made a film that is uplifting and joyful, about believing in and pursuing your dreams — something that everyone can relate to this holiday season.»