Sentences with phrase «young girl characters»

It's perhaps not the best compliment but this series has always impressed me for having an adorable, mostly dependent young girl character living with an older man, who she obviously has romantic feelings for, and not feeling «loli - ish» in nature.

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Through the pen name Charles Moulton, Marston combined his and Elizabeth and Olive's feminist ideals to create a superhero character that young girls could look up to.

«When the girls were young, Keith would drive them to cheerleading and to their Brownies meetings,» she says, creating a fantastic visual of Captain Teague, his character in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, delivering Girl Scout cookies.

This coming - of - age book set in Alabama is a must - read for every human, I think — we witness justice, inequality, strength, character, community, and tragedy through the eyes of a young girl.

Here's a list of films for young girls — movies that show strong female characters with the kind of energy, intelligence, wit, and initiative our daughters hope to develop themselves.

Something about the young Lakita character reminded me so much of a little girl I met named Bharathi, who is pictured above on the left.

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

In some sense there is no mythic comic strip character who has replaced her for girls and young teens today.

We have nothing against men or Dads, but we believe that providing Girls with role models that can relate to what they're going through as young women is essential to their character development.

This dizzy but sweet character from the 1995 comedy hit — Clueless was played by Alicia Silverstone, who became a fashion icon to young girls everywhere — with her knee socks, a - line miniskirts and many other stylish 90s outfits.

I love to see strong empowered female characters that young girls can look up to.

It is directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, Mr. Woodcock, and Fright Night remake) and stars Chris Pine (one of many Chrises in Hollywood), Casey Affleck (Batman's younger brother), Ben Foster (That angel mutant called... Angel, in X-Men 3), Eric Bana (Not the second or third Hulk...), Kyle Gallner (The STD - ridden teenager in Veronica Mars), John Magaro (One of the character's husband, Lorna, in that Netflix show about prison women), and Holliday Grainger (Cinderella... but she wasn't Cinderella).

When you are dating a Ukraine young adult dating girl, you should pay awareness to how often she creates and how soon she solutions your characters.

Am a good young girl with loving characters, am softhearted girl who believe life is good, am positive kind of girl i have the company of reasonable people because am the kind of girl who take people as they are, i like t..

Emily Blunt is, thank god, given a bit more to do than the standard «Please explain the plot to me and protect me» action girl character, and, as ever — really, is there a more appealing young actress working today?

Lilli, a young girl at a convent school, is the gameï ¿ 1/2 s main character.

The young Sean Penn character sneaks into the neighbor girl's house and apparently gets something nasty on her nightie because he tries to hide it and then throws it in the river.

Watching Judd, I didn't only think of women in abusive relationships, but of Abu Ghraib poster girl Lynndie England, a not - too - bright small - town girl who got sucked into her controlling boyfriend's universe — who eagerly posed for her man the way so many young women do, becoming a character in someone else's sick fantasy.

Matilda, an imaginative young girl (played by newcomer Xzannjah), is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens» character Pip is her friend.

Based on Mary Stewart's 1971 classic children's book The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch's Flower is an action - packed film full of jaw - dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the stirring, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world.

The characters are well drawn and the interaction amongst the husband (Bill Raymond) and wife (Emily Grace) truck stop team and the young girl (Judith Ivey) they befriend is actually somewhat nuanced.

Gomez's younger «Wizards of Waverly Place» fans may readily believe the charade could continue for so long, but Meester and Cassidy's older «Gossip Girl» fans may not so willingly accept their characters» simplistic ways.

The former Disney star, whose most well - known acting role is of «Wizards of Waverly Place» main character Alex Russo, was able to prove her relatability for her targeted audience, younger girls and teens.

Goldthwait, on screenwriting and directing duty for the fourth time, ups the ante of precocious C - bomb dropping teenage girls (an alarming number of these characters seem to be popping up, from Hit Girl to Boltie) with Roxy (Tara Lynn Barr) who might not have the best aim with a handgun, but does a mean Jeff Foxworthy impression and has an impressively long list of grievances (and Star Trek trivia) for one so young.

Young women, in particular, are profoundly influenced by films that follow girl protagonists whose stories transport them to new cultures, environments and character circumstances outside of their personal experiences within their familiar realm.

Not satisfied to merely shoot their victims at point blank range, some characters are riddled with bullets and one young girl is repeatedly threatened with a gun.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

One of the most striking elements about this film was the way it was shot, which gave it a voyeuristic sensibility reminiscent of North by Northwest (1959) in particular — especially in terms of the way the character of Héctor 1 was set - up and the power dynamic between the multiple Héctor sequels and the young girl.

Her young and bubbly child like character in Garden State just might be the quintessential Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

There's also room for significant new characters including a British soldier and a young girl he hopes to protect.

Following up on this past summer's «Wonder Woman», which is a wondrous example for all young girls everywhere, this third installment of the Norse Super Hero by Marvel illustrates just how powerful and popular these characters are.

«Final Girls,» though, is a different beast, and tries to locate more genuine emotion than you'd expect to find in one of these meta movies, wherein the knowing characters know, for instance, that the killer appears every time a young woman removes her bra.

The story builds off its comic predecessor and follows the same characters: the stoic swordsman Garrison, elderly wizard Knolan, notorious outlaw Red Monika, kind robot Calibretto, and Gully, a young girl searching for her missing father.

But it's also a far more complex character than that, and Blunt deftly shows the other sides of Sara — the remains of the irresponsible party girl she once was, the sexually frustrated young woman out in the boondocks, the parent without a rulebook to a child who scares the living shit out of her.

The new film by Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Unknown Girl, revolves around the body of the title character, once a young doctor, Jenny Davin (Adèle Haenel), makes a simple choice that has fatal consequences for a woman she has never met.

Rachel McAdams» resume includes a wide variety of characters including a bully in Mean Girls, a unscrupulous thief in Sherlock Holmes, a hostage victim in Red Eye, a young society girl in The Notebook and a troubled spouse in The Time Traveler's Wife.

Labor Day is certainly a change of shade for writer / director Jason Reitman, who previously unearthed the humor in his American character dramas, however dark their content (such as with the dark but funny soul erosion of Charlize Theron's non-matured mean girl in Young Adult).

There are four character classes in Trion Worlds» Diablo - style MMO Devilian, launching next week in North America — busty woman, stout man, Dante from Devil May Cry and uncomfortably young - looking girl with a gun.

The young girl plays Athena with that certain Disney charm that many female characters had in the studio's past live - action films.

This version of Wonder Woman, with the dynamic Gal Gadot in the lead, traces the character back to her early days as a young Amazonian girl living off a private island shielded from Ares, the GreekRead More →

In the way that French New Wave filmmaker Jacques Demy made the locales of «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» and «The Young Girls of Rochefort» into workaday natural settings that were also vividly colored backdrops for sudden bursts of music, the Los Angeles of «La La Land» doesn't spare us the traffic jams, but it also allows its characters to open the back of a stalled truck to reveal a jazz combo.

The actors give as much as the script allows, with Charlize Theron (Young Adult) as crafty Meredith Vickers, Michael Fassbender (Shame) as sinister David, and Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as the daydreaming scientist definitely help flesh out characters at a time when others are left to flap about with little to do.

A young girl who loves wild geese is the main character in the film Fly Away Home, which was also directed by Carroll Ballard.

Luckily, this remake of the 1943 film My Friend Flicka (that starred a very young Roddy McDowell as the main character) has stayed true to the essence of Mary O'Hara's story, even if the lead role was given to a girl instead of a boy.

Based on the 1971 young adult novel The Little Broomstick, Mary and The Witch's Flower is an all - ages action fantasy adventure that hearkens back to some of the most beloved animated films of all time, full of ingenious characters, jaw - dropping imaginative worlds, and the simple, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to figure her place in the world.

Part of the attraction is the cast - Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Kelly Macdonald and Bill Nighy, as well as Tilda Swinton; though the lead character is actually a young Korean girl who befriends a monster with «a kind spirit» named Okja.

TMS: We've spoken to the Disney Infinity team in the past about how obviously young girls are really excited that they're able to play as female characters, but I know male gamers have also responded well to characters like Jasmine.

Driver, the soulful ex-boyfriend of Lena Dunham's character on Girls and a brilliant portrayer of millennial squirminess in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, now chafes at his popular status as a Bushwickian sex symbol.

Danika Yarosh is also a part of the action, as Samantha, a young girl being used as collateral with Reacher... in one of the dumbest workarounds a movie's ever used to make a character heroic.

The characters include: a couple (Connie Britton and Jason Mantzoukas) who are actively trying to have a baby; a woman (Julie Bowen) having a fling with a younger man (Gregory Smith); a teenage girl (Sarah Hyland) ready to lose her virginity to her boyfriend (Matt Prokop); a lesbian couple (Pamela Adlon and Moon Bloodgood) preparing for artificial insemination; a husband and wife (Jonathan Silverman and Jennifer Finnigan) whose marriage has grown cold; and a man (Alan Tudyk) who's sex life is hindered by the newborn his wife (Jennifer Jostyn) has just delivered.