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Executive produced by Angelina Jolie, «The Breadwinner» does precisely that, and though Twomey's essential, empathetic look into the plight of women, young and old, in present - day Afghanistan doesn't identify its heroine as the exact same girl, her jade - colored eyes are a certain reminder, while her spirit burns every bit as strongly.

The tough heroines of «The Hunger Games» and «Game of Thrones» endure trauma and terror — and provide a template for how young women can survive in the real world

Shailene Woodley shouldered the role of young adult heroine Tris Prior in the movie Divergent.

Throughout Marjane's search for a place in a world that seems determined to shut her out, a variety of the young woman's family members infuse the story with a bit more experience and wisdom than our heroine yet possesses.

It's action - packed in the extreme, as Young Heroine Tris (Shailene Woodely) and «Dauntless» hunk Four (Theo James) run from the armed, motorized thugs that the smug Erudite elitists send after them, with barely time for a betrayal, a moment of weakness and a break for Shailene Woodley to pile on more makeup and lip gloss.

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.

In a movie about the relentlessly forward motion of time, the still very young Hansen - Løve refreshingly embraces her heroine's multiplicity here, and Huppert portrays a full spectrum of emotion to go with that — often with just a single look.

This is how Roald Dahl describes his young heroine's discovery of her surprising telekinetic abilities in the novel that inspired 1996's Matilda.

It starts, after a strange animated credit sequence which shows our heroines floating in a cave strewn with human remains (so you're in no doubt about what you're getting), with two young aquatic beauties floating in a lake up to their shoulders, looking not unlike the American vamps of John McNaughton's Wild Things.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

From books by Mercedes Lackey to Tamora Pierce and more, female readers have often found their most relatable heroines in young adult fantasy, and Noelle Stevenson's Nimona continues in that tradition.

The camera surveys them at a pace more akin to art - house than blockbuster filmmaking all the better to channel the fire that rises up in the young heroine who decides that she will indeed be the «mockingjay».

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.

Similarly as Katniss did in The Hunger Games when she too substituted herself for her younger sister Primrose, Peeta in - turn substitutes himself for Haymitch, and so our hero and heroine find themselves back in the arena facing not only each other, but a considerably tougher competition.

Delivering a sturdy, self - possessed performance as «A Wrinkle in Time's» heroine, Reid proves a thoroughly capable leading lady, her slightly nerdish appeal something of a twin to Letitia Wright's precocious young scientist in «Black Panther.»

Set in a rural community, the film is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land.»

When she finishes, the teacher asks the other Annie in the class (our young heroine, played by «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis) to come to the front of the room for her presentation.

What would a young adult series be like without some sort of dangerous initiation process and a love story to get in the way of our heroine.

In a surprisingly madcap Jane Austen - ish vein, Emily (played in her younger years by actress Emma Bell before a more querulous Nixon takes over) emerges as a spirited heroine with very particular and unconventional ideas about herself, and her relationship to God and the written worIn a surprisingly madcap Jane Austen - ish vein, Emily (played in her younger years by actress Emma Bell before a more querulous Nixon takes over) emerges as a spirited heroine with very particular and unconventional ideas about herself, and her relationship to God and the written worin her younger years by actress Emma Bell before a more querulous Nixon takes over) emerges as a spirited heroine with very particular and unconventional ideas about herself, and her relationship to God and the written word.

That they were able to include royalty in that mix, reminding everyone of the success Disney's had with The Princess Diaries and a whole slew of crown - sporting animated heroines, only ups the profit potential and resulting need to get this movie out to its young public as soon as possible.

The «Britain's Got Talent» judge has signed a deal with Scholastic to write two books that centre on Aurora Beam, a young female superhero, and although she is in the middle of working on her first story she has big plans for her heroine.

Recently, I made the mistake of joking on Twitter about the possibility of a Team Peeta vs. Team Gale dynamic, referring to the two young men who hold special places in the heart of Katniss Everdeen, the 16 - year - old heroine of «The Hunger Games.»

Here was a family film bold enough to land its young heroine with clinical depression and explore a child's psychological hinterland in a way Freud would have approved, and combine all that with a race - against - time adventure and an elephant - cat called Bing Bong.

One of the most rewarding aspects of the film is witnessing Dido's transformation from a shy, subservient, and downtrodden young woman into a confident and determined activist, which is in part due to actress Gugu Mbatha - Raw, who deserves universal recognition for her portrayal of the titular heroine.

The heroine of the story is Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to fight as a replacement when her younger sister is selected in the annual reaping.

Mary and the Witch's Flower U, 103 mins ★ ★ ★ Based on Mary Stewart's book The Little Broomstick, this cartoon is initially set in a picturesque British village, but when the broom in question transports the young heroine to a magical world, the film's Japanese provenance shines through.

In the opening installment, our young heroine is portrayed as a wan, waif - like creature given to wandering around her family's sprawling, mountaintop mansion located high above the seacoast.

Eliza Dushku is just incredibly hot regardless, and she essays an interesting character in Jessie: a mostly impenetrable young woman whom seems strong and designed specifically to be a horror movie heroine, yet her friends» devotion to her and the reason they're all out in the woods sets up an cool dichotomy.

Mulan (1998): To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

In the first of this trilogy by Philip Pullman, you'll meet Lyra Belacqua, our young heroine, who tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments.

This sequel to The Hunger Games is obviously drawing many adult readers, including several in our office who rave about this fast - paced read and its appealing young heroine, Katniss Everdeen.

In Eliza, Allende has created one of her most appealing heroines, an adventurous, independent - minded, and highly unconventional young woman who has the courage to reinvent herself and to create her own destiny in a new countrIn Eliza, Allende has created one of her most appealing heroines, an adventurous, independent - minded, and highly unconventional young woman who has the courage to reinvent herself and to create her own destiny in a new countrin a new country.

What I am saying is, that in this book, written from the heroine's perspective, we have a chance to dig deep into the mind of a young woman in this situation.

Abrim with picaresque adventures — escapades that carry Jennet from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted Caribbean island — our heroine's search for justice entangles her variously in the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, the customs of her Algonquin Indian captors, the designs of a West Indies pirate band, and the bedsheets of her brilliant lover, the young Ben Franklin.

Two great lists of books that feature overweight protagonists in young adult and new adult literature are Nerdy Book Club's Top Ten Fat Books and Goodreads» New Adult and Young Adult Books starring a Plus Size Heryoung adult and new adult literature are Nerdy Book Club's Top Ten Fat Books and Goodreads» New Adult and Young Adult Books starring a Plus Size HerYoung Adult Books starring a Plus Size Heroine.

In Grace McCleen's harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten - year - old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear Eyes of FaitIn Grace McCleen's harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten - year - old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear Eyes of Faitin ten - year - old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the world with the clear Eyes of Faith.

- Anne - Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All, is the Bert G. Kerstetter»66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the former Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State «With assured prose, a compulsively readable plot, and insider savvy, Buying In offers a front - row seat to the downfall of Wall Street, with a terrific young heroine who outmans the men without sacrificing her soul.»

Duke with Benefits by Manda Collins In this unique historical romance, our heroine is a wonderfully independent young mathematician who is an especially talented cryptographer.

In Sunset City, a striking first novel by Melissa Ginsburg (another poet), the murder of a high - school friend sends the young heroine into a self - destructive spin.

In honor of Women's History Month, we're highlighting 10 new books that give young readers a fresh batch of heroines, from new fictional favorites to historical role models getting some much - deserved attention:

The story's spirited young heroine, an African - American girl who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, lives with her mother in Harlem.

It's not the kind of timid picture book that focuses on preschool nervousness or a case of the jitters.Sabo, the book's young heroine, lives in what seems to be a hot, foreign country, most likely the...

Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine.

After immersing us in life on the island, our young heroine takes us back to Boston to recount the events that brought her here.

Jackson, whose 1997 debut novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, grew up in Lancashire, not far from Brontë territory, so it's no surprise that he manages to convey the landscape and history with skill — but he brings his his young female heroine to life with equal dexterity.

In language dazzling, energetic and pure, it introduces us to a heartbreaking young heroine and an incredibly assured and outstanding new voice in fictioIn language dazzling, energetic and pure, it introduces us to a heartbreaking young heroine and an incredibly assured and outstanding new voice in fictioin fiction.