With a script by Cara Lustik, music by David Mallamud and lyrics by Joshua H. Cohen, "Flight School" is a charming adaptation that supports Penguin's dreams while not ignoring the basic laws of aerodynamics.
In his latest film, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, out this month, he is very much back to playing an absent-minded and charming adaptation of himself.
"Beasley's Christmas Party," C. W. Munger's charming adaptation of an early-20th-century Tarkington story, is not third rate.
There were sentimental comparisons to Apollo and charming adaptations of Armstrong.
Unprolific writer-director Whit Stillman has a new movie coming out soon: a charming Jane Austen adaptation called "Love & Friendship". That makes this the perfect time for the Criterion Collection to release a box set of his first three films, all of which came out in the 1990s.
The pair, who were the creative team responsible for the charming 2009 adaptation of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," also wrote the "Lego" script.
The Secret of Roan Inish: John Sayles directed and scripted this charming 1994 adaptation of Rosalie K. Fry's story about a 10-year-old orphan sent to a fishing village in Donegal, where she unravels the mystery of her brother's disappearance.
Most recently, it was during the charming film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's powerful novel The Help.
In Beverly Hills, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Arts recently scored a hit with an adaptation of Miklós László's charming Parfumerie (which provided the inspiration for films like The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime, and You've Got Mail).
The movie is pleasant and charming, but when making a big-screen adaptation of a beloved classic and genuine touchstone for generations, adequate doesn't feel like quite enough.
As a child growing up in Philadelphia, he'd seen charming images of Paris in a book adaptation of the film "The Red Balloon," by Albert Lamorisse.
