Sentences with phrase «young heroines who»

Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity just by sticking to their guns and never abandoning their dreams.

Both films are deeply pleasurable works of pure cinema featuring a young heroine who undergoes a transformation of sorts, while gaining a newfound awareness of her body and its — shall we say — insatiable needs.

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».

- 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.»

Not exact matches

Its heroine is a cunning princess who, for extremely complicated reasons and with equally complicated results, disguises herself as a young man.

There are few, if any, young actors other than her who could play the type of strong, capable, insightful heroine embodied by Katniss.

Gwyneth Paltrow stars as Emma, Jane Austen's classic heroine, a mischievous young beauty who sets up her single friends.

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.

Coppola gives her primary characters a Gothic twist replacing the older, brooding, tired masculine figure and the young, naive heroine with a feminine adventurer who provides the masculine figure with the motivation and opportunity to journey into the unfamiliar landscape.

Due to vagaries of scheduling, A24 is releasing «While We're Young» March 27 after which Fox Searchlight will eventually open enchanting comedy «Mistress America,» which Baumbauch wrote with his partner and actress muse Greta Gerwig (who collaborated with him memorably on «Frances Ha»), creating Brooke, the most entertaining screwball heroine since Holly Golightly.

And they're not the only new additions, as David Adamthwaite, Daniel Bacon, Chris Gibbs, Adam Godley, Jonathan Holmes, Paul Moniz de Sa and Olafur Olafsson have all been hired to join Mark Rylance's titular character, Ruby Barnhill as young heroine Sophie and Bill Hader, who is playing one of the less charming giants.

Released to celebrate Father's Day, here's a new clip focusing on the relationship between the young heroine Merida and her father the king, who are voiced by Boardwalk Empire's Kelly MacDonald and well - known Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, respectively.

Our heroine is Edith (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman from Buffalo, New York, who discovered she could see ghosts at the age of 10, when her recently deceased mother warned her to «Beware of Crimson Peak.»

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.»

Playing an action heroine was like professional playtime, and she gained five or six kilograms of muscle to play the role: «Due to all the action scenes that [the character] had to be put through, I wanted it to be plausible that a young girl could fight a man who's obviously both stronger and bigger.»

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.

From its enigmatic tease of an opening sequence until its sobering finale, Mitchell establishes a permeating atmosphere of the unknown, which remains even as we learn the specifics of the threat that is pursuing our heroine, a young woman (played by Maika Monroe) who also becomes the target of male gazing.

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 country.

Hunger Games is written through the voice of Katniss, a strong young women who, unlike other first person heroines, has a head on her shoulders and a no - nonsense attitude.

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 Faith.

The heroine's war against a rich young man who thought he was entitled to ride roughshod over the rights of women had a true flavor of being from another era.

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.

Sarah Campbell, the young slave who is given to her half - sister as a wedding present, is a heroine, but she is not perfect.

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

# 1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman heralds the arrival of his thrilling new stand - alone novel, The Murderer's Daughter, with this eBook original prequel short story — a powerful portrait of a young man seeking his destiny, who will ultimately play a key role in the life of an unforgettable new Kellerman heroine.

- VOYA «Derek Landy has written a delightful book about a young girl who realizes she's been a heroine waiting to happen all along, as she claims her rightful status as a warrior mage.

There is the young hero, the heroine with possible romantic ties to the lead, an ultimate bad guy who does evil things, random encounters and a turned based combat system.

Even the determined and successful heroine of Mrs. Craik's mid-19th-century novel about feminine artistic success, Olive, a young woman who lives alone, strives for fame and independence and actually supports herself through her art — such unfeminine behavior is at least partly excused by the fact that she is a cripple and automatically considers that marriage is denied to her — even Olive ultimately succumbs to the blandishments of love and marriage.

I am told, by those who read and write the more heated forms of «bodice ripper» that the young heroines are often «overcome in the heat of passion», so to speak.