Sentences with phrase «with young protagonists»

In fiction, this includes titles with young protagonists that are written in an accessible style, exploring situations and issues that will interest teens.

They are looking to move on from books with young protagonists and instead are in search of a story that reflects their current emotional journey.

After 7 years in what seems to be development hell, Team Ico finally introduces us to the majestic Trico and its heartfelt relationship with a young protagonist.

A film about childhood with a young protagonist for adults is rare today and doesn't seem to have been any more common back then.

YA / General Interest: With its young protagonist and ripped - from - the - headlines themes, this will have surefire appeal for teens drawn to cult stories.

Then along came Pokemon, offering up an adventure with a young protagonist, the chance to catch and train and battle these creatures and trade them with my friends.

Demon Gaze II introduces a new «Demon Gazer» with the young protagonist Signa, the orphaned member of a party of revolutionaries in a search for the mother who raised them.

Not exact matches

In a pivotal scene in Underworld (1997), a Jesuit priest sits down with the protagonist, Nick Shay, when he is a young man and asks him to name all the parts of a shoe — the cuff, the counter, the welt, the vamp, the aglet, the grommet.

In Chapter 12 of William P. Young's The Shack, Jesus talks with the book's protagonist, Mackenzie, about the inadequacy of institutions in bringing people closer to God.

Along with Don Carson, Keller established The Gospel Coalition in an attempt to draw together the various networks that the resurgence of reformed theology had created, and offer a voice of experience to some of its younger protagonists.

Similarly, «playing God» pairs with the young gay protagonist of the video sitting in a pew with his mother, the same mother who harasses him until he shuts the door in her face at «paraphrase a book written thirty - five - hundred years ago,» and who aggressively makes the sign of the cross (to the lyric «preach hate») before storming out («holy water... poisoned») when her son brings his soon - to - be spouse home for dinner.

We first meet the film's protagonist, Mack, as a young boy with an abusive, alcoholic father.

Although the material does indeed involve young protagonists, no effort is made to show their lives in a way today's kids can identify with.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

Director Jason Reitman (Men, Women & Children, Labor Day)-- teaming up with Cody and Theron again after 2011's Young Adult — is deeply, intimately sympathetic to Marlo in a way that I have never seen onscreen before when it comes to a female protagonist.

Most importantly, perhaps, young protagonists struggle with the exuberance and humiliation of first love.

Even more valuable is the light it sheds on the Ozarks» terrible problem with meth labs, as it sends its young protagonist on a dangerous quest to find her missing dad or legally lose the famlly home.

«The Boy Who Would Be Pan» (6:07) focuses on the film's young protagonist and on the actor who plays him, with co-stars all speaking highly of him.

Braff does a solid job as the main protagonist, although it's easy to imagine a better actor doing more with the part, while Mandy Patinkin and Joey King (who's steadily proving herself to be one of the best young talents in the business) both deliver great supporting work as Aidan's judgmental, orthodox father and ultra-religious daughter, respectively.

Lionsgate have obtained the rights to R.J. Palacio's novel, Wonder, securing Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman — a young boy born with a facial deformity.

The film, adapted from R.J. Palacio's bestseller by Jack Thorne and Steve Conrad, finds Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman — a young boy born with a facial deformity.

Although the script features juvenile protagonists, this animation is very likely to frighten young children thanks to frequent jump scenes, gruesome images of corpses, insects bursting from teddy bears, and zombies with body parts that fall off.

It may not be the same set of characters, but «Juno,» «Young Adult,» and now «Tully» can be seen as a continuing story with smart, flawed female protagonists.

While «The Book of Life» focused on a love triangle, «Coco» protagonist is much younger and continues Pixar's tradition of eschewing love interests with one or two exceptions.

While aging has been discussed on TV before, it's often through the eyes of a younger protagonist spending time with an elderly guest star (like Lynn Cohen on Master Of None or June Squibb on Girls).

Here the septuagenarians are the protagonists, with younger characters serving supporting roles in their stories.

«We are looking forward to sharing Lover For a Day with arthouse crowds, fans of Garrel and French cinema, as well as younger audiences / students who can relate to the two protagonists — especially Esther Garrel's growing fan base given the break - out year she has had, with an impressive performance in Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name in addition to her leading role in Lover For a Day,» commented Kasman.

A breakthrough film for several young Asian performers, the problems with Better Luck Tomorrow begin and end with the passivity of protagonist Ben (Parry Shen), who, when asked to provide the violent plot point that propels the film to its conclusion, breaks out of character so mortally the film never recovers.

Both protagonists are young, strapping lads with a bright future ahead of them until war crosses their paths and their lives become daily doses of hell.

While the thing most people probably took away from Rockstar's latest trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 is this shot of a young John Marston (protagonist of the original Red Dead Redemption, for the uninitiated) with his famed facial scars being clearly very recently sewn.

While Kai celebrates, we meet our liberal protagonists, Ally and Ivy, a lesbian couple with a young son played by Sarah Paulson and Alison Pill, respectively.

Though burdened with some painfully clumsy passages of dialogue littered throughout Wentworth Miller's screenplay, the film succeeds on the strength of its lush visuals, nimble editing, sweeping musical contributions by Clint Mansell and Philip Glass, and magnetic performances by Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode as, respectively, the reserved young protagonist and her creepily seductive uncle who reappears shortly after the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney).

Many of his protagonists — Kenneth Branagh in «Celebrity,» Jason Biggs in «Anything Else,» Owen Wilson in «Midnight in Paris» — sound like younger versions of Allen himself, with the same whiny, intonations.

And we should applaud his move towards telling more stories with female protagonists — he recently said to The Guardian that «the journeys of young women are more moving» — because it means better roles for Carey Mulligan, Reese Witherspoon, and Saoirse Ronan, immensely talented actors who deserve all the opportunities they can get.

The young actors who play Paxton's sons in the flashback portions of the film deserve much of the praise, with Matt O'Leary, in particular, being a sympathetic protagonist as young Fenton, a young boy torn between his love for his father and the moral duty to stop his murderous ambitions.

As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

This version changes Bradbury's older, unhappily married protagonist into a much younger and virile Michael B. Jordan and adds language far saltier than the «damns» and «hells» that once got the novel in trouble with censors.

The protagonist of the story is a teenager called Tom Natsworthy, who joins forces with a young woman from an area known as the Outlands, to discover a mystery that could change the world they live in.

Appearing only in the first of three vignettes, Ali is tasked with creating a complex and compelling father figure who casts a shadow over the rest of film, inspiring our young protagonist to gradually mould himself in his image.

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.

These moments, along with the complexity of the film's portrayal of death, prove to make I Kill Giants a more mature film than its young protagonist suggests.

One could not help admiring the normalcy and the elegance with which difficult emotional states and complex moral problems were tackled by the young female protagonist, an Irish migrant to NYC in the 1950s.

Though inspired primarily by the little rascals of Our Gang, the film takes in equal measure from Truffaut's The 400 Blows, which ends with a similarly melancholic - but - triumphant dash to freedom, and it also recalls Steven Spielberg's A.I., whose frequently misunderstood ending grants its eternally young protagonist his wish to be with his human mother.

This can be seen in the way the protagonist interacts with other young people, and especially in Raya's relationship with bad - girl Michelle (Tracey Armstrong) who also lives for dancing — and drugs.

That's certainly the case with the admirable young protagonist in writer - director Mickey Keating «s latest horror film, «Carnage Park,» as she's forced to fight back against her new enemies, who threaten her plans to realize her objectives.

Charley develops a bond with the ailing horse Lean on Pete that seems to represent at last a measure of stability for the young protagonist.

The protagonist, Ifemelu, is a young Nigerian woman who writes a successful blog about her experiences of race in America, a minefield that Adichie travels with wisdom, humor and honesty.

I had to know what the outcome would be for this novel's young female protagonist in a book which tells a story with unique American characters, and some gritty, tense moments.

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