Sentences with phrase «young orphan who»

The movie stars actress Sophie Nélisse as Liesel, a young orphan who goes to live with foster parents Hans (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson).

Jack Black & Oscar winner Cate Blanchett lead this family - friendly spook house feature from Amblin Entertainment, following a young orphan who goes to live with his uncle in his mysterious mansion....

The Steven Spielberg film, which was the last to be written by the late Melissa Mathison, stars Mark Rylance as the titular giant and Ruby Barhill as Sophie, the young orphan who befriends the BFG.

Joining Bruce Wayne / Batman as headliners are butler Alfred (Ralph Fiennes — a perfect voice casting choice), a young orphan who eventually becomes sidekick Robin (voiced by Michael Cera), Gotham City's new police commissioner Barbara Gordon (Rosario Dawson), and, leading a crew of villains that includes just about every bad guy and gal in the DC Universe, The Joker.

Other lingerers include Irwin (Duel Farnes), a pale young orphan who has been turned back in by his adoptive parents (Claire Forlani and Clark Gregg) on the grounds that he is defective.

The film will take place during the WWII era and will tell the story of a young orphan who is kidnapped by pirates and taken to a far away land (Neverland).

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Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

The story follows Eggs (voiced by Game of Thrones» Isaac Hempstead - Wright), a young orphan boy raised by Boxtrolls, a lovable group of underground trash collectors who live under the town of Cheesebridge.

Megamind is a self - professed supervillain, an alien who was orphaned young and crafted an identity in counterpoint to another foundling who fell to Metro City, USA, on the same day.

The saga concerns a clique of young orphan boys who find their friendship threatened when they learn that one is to be adopted.

Synopsis: An orphan (Barney Clark) in 19th - century London falls in with a gang of young pickpockets who steal for their villainous master (Ben Kingsley).

The $ 90 million movie, being directed by Jaume Collet - Serra (House of Wax, Orphan), is set in a place called New Manhattan and follows two brothers, one the leader of a motorcycle gang, the other a younger man (Tetsuo) with telekinetic abilities who becomes a dangerous weapon.

With Tron: Legacy «s Garret Hedlund in final talks to star as Kaneda, the gang leader, and Kristen Stewart offered the role of Ky Reed, a woman who is part of an underground movement to expose the government for turning orphans into living weapons (she also may possess some abilities herself), the big question now is who will play Tetsuo, the young man whose latent powers will release the powerful being known as Akira?

On her way to work the following spring, Hind is met by dozens of sobbing, traumatized young children, who have been orphaned in the Deir Yassin massacre.

It centred on a young orphan girl (Aileen Quinn), who is adopted by bald - headed billionaire Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney).

Gyllenhaal plays Dastan, an Aladdin - ish orphan who was adopted by the king (Ronald Pickup) and now, as a young man, fights alongside his foster brothers, Tus (Richard Coyle) and Garsiv (Toby Kebbell), in expanding the empire.

Sam Neill plays a grumpy old man who ends up stuck with a chubby little orphan named Ricky Baker (Julian Dennison in a breakthrough performance) after his sweet wife passes away, just when the young lad was starting to feel at home in the middle of nowhere.

Then the disfigured recluse notices a young orphan named Christine (Emmy Rossum) who has been brought in to study with the chorus by ballet mistress, Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson).

Suzy, who alternates between immersion in young adult novels about magical orphans and violent outbursts against her parents and her schoolmates, carries the modern world (the movie is set in 1965) with her in the form of a portable record player and a single Françoise Hardy recording.

The story is about a young orphan named Hugo Cabret, played by Asa Butterfield, living in a train station in Paris who tries to solve the mystery of an automaton his father found before being killed.

Based on an actual case that happened in Romania's Moldova region in 2005, the film unfolds in and around a remote monastery where pious young women — many of them orphans who have merely migrated from one form of institutional living to another — toil dutifully under the ever - watchful eye of an austere priest known as Papa (played by the excellent Valeriu Andriuta).

And yet, Hoskins is game, as is John Leguizamo as Luigi, shown here as a meatheaded young swain, who provides the film's attempt at an emotional core as he follows the orphaned student Daisy (Samantha Mathis) into the fourth dimension, dragging his wisecracking brother along with him.

Edgar Rice Burroughs Film release date: July 1 Starring: Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson What it's about: The first in the series written about Tarzan, we learn of John Clayton, who was born in Africa and became orphaned at a young age.

The Unborn (PG - 13 for profanity, disturbing images, sexual references, mature themes, terror and intense violence) Horror flick about an orphaned young woman (Odette Yustman) haunted by a ghost who enlists the assistance of a rabbi (Gary Oldman) to uncover the source of a family curse that can be traced back to Nazi Germany.

The young Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) takes on the title role as an orphan who is taken in by a New York mayoral candidate (Jamie Foxx) in a thinly veiled campaign move.

Which is not to say that Anderson doesn't try to inject father issues into the tale of concierge par excellence M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his tutelage of «Lobby Boy» orphan Zero (Tony Revolori), which leads from one flashback to another and back to a mid-current where Zero, grown into F. Murray Abraham, relates his sweeping tale of ruin to a half - interested author (Jude Law) who grows into Tom Wilkinson writing a book — who grows into a statue of the author played by Wilkinson, to which a young woman pays her respects whilst reading, yes, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The film is about an orphaned dinosaur who befriends a young human boy, and reportedly features relatively little dialogue as the two communicate through action and expression rather than words.

Johnson stars as primatologist Davis Okoye, a man who keeps people at a distance but shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, incredibly rare albino silverback gorilla who has been in his care since he rescued the young orphan from poachers.

She steps in as Ila, a young woman who was orphaned as a child, adopted by Noah and Naameh, and ultimately grows up to fall in love with their eldest son, Shem (Douglas Booth).

There's Van Pelt (Jonathan Hyde), a big - game hunter who has also been captured by the game; Aunt Nora (Bebe Neuwirth), who has adopted little Judy and Peter (somehow it is inevitable that they are orphans), and Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), who was the little girl who played Jumanji with young Alan on that fateful day in 1969, and now has grown up to become a reclusive fortune - teller.

The dark romance revolves around Philip, a young orphan, who believes his mysterious, beautiful cousin Rachel may have been responsible for the murder of his beloved guardian Ambrose, also a cousin of theirs.

In the expanded universe, Solo as a young orphan was taken in by the cruel, Fagin - like Garris Shrike, who uses kids to steal for him.

Strongly encouraging him to do just this is another new character, an idealistic young detective (the superb Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who grew up in a boys home himself and relates to Wayne as one orphan talking to another.

Caesar's company on this mission include his wise orangutan advisor Maurice (Karin Konoval), a silent young human girl orphaned in the war (Amiah Miller), and Bad Ape (Steve Zahn), a loopy new English - speaking ape who is the lone survivor of a zoo (and the closest this dark movie has to tasteful comic relief).

The breakout star of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the highest - grossing picture in New Zealand film history, Julian Dennison plays a young orphan with a temper who Deadpool takes under his wing.

Astro meets the surface dwellers, young Oliver Twist orphans (Kristen Bell voices one) who scrounge busted robots for the Fagin - like Ham Egg (Nathan Lane).

Young Mowgli, the orphaned «man cub» raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, is played by a human being, young newcomer Neel Sethi, who is not only completely adorable but exudes intelligence and packs a wallop of fierce determinaYoung Mowgli, the orphaned «man cub» raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, is played by a human being, young newcomer Neel Sethi, who is not only completely adorable but exudes intelligence and packs a wallop of fierce determinayoung newcomer Neel Sethi, who is not only completely adorable but exudes intelligence and packs a wallop of fierce determination.

I am working with young teachers from Saudi Arabia who are organizing a boarding democratic school for Syrian refugee orphans in Turkey.

The harmonica's next owner is an orphaned boy in 1935 Pennsylvania who fears being separated from his younger brother and loves playing the piano.

It's a manga about a man who takes in a now orphaned young girl and the relationship that forms between them through the bento boxes she makes.

Orphaned at a young age and under the guardianship of a series of Warnick Dukes, the 23 - year - old falls prey to an unfortunate situation when she poses nude for the famous artist Derek Hawkins, who has promised that the painting is for his eyes only and that he intends to wed her.

Orphan Train intertwines the story of one of these children — Vivian Daly — with that of Molly, a modern young woman who is also an orphan and an outOrphan Train intertwines the story of one of these children — Vivian Daly — with that of Molly, a modern young woman who is also an orphan and an outorphan and an outsider.

Someone in London is murdering young orphan girls, and Tim may be the only one who cares enough to find out why.

aks the ad that attracts orphan Reynie Muldoon; debut author Stewarts» ensuing adventure will similarly ensnare young readers, who will cheer on the team of talented, puzzle - solving kids who must subvert adults» nefarious plans.

Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit — the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her...

The TKR community is an active, dedicated group of volunteers who provide foster care for orphaned kittens that are too young to be considered adoptable.

Toni's Kitty Rescue TKR is a 501 (c) 3 rescue organization and active, dedicated communities of volunteers who provide foster care for sick, orphaned kittens that are too young to be considered adoptable.

Foster candidates are animals who aren't quite ready for adoption, including orphaned or very young kittens and animal recuperating from illness, injury or medical procedures.

Joining me this week are USTA's Roger Dow, talking about the current open skies controversy (and argument) between U.S. and Gulf airlines, Dan Cottrell, fireman and smoke jumper, who talks about the differences in fighting mountain and city fires, Kristen Snavely, head wrangler at Triple Creek Ranch, and Jack Gladstone, Blackfeet singer, lecturer, and writer (and Rose Bowl Champion), who tells (and sings) the folk story of a young orphan boy and his elders tracking a bear.

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.