When "Look Back in Anger" showed signs of faltering only four months after its 1957 opening, its box-office fortunes were transformed when a distraught woman in the audience jumped onstage at the Lyceum Theater and slapped Kenneth Haigh, who played the misogynist antihero Jimmy Porter, on behalf of wronged women everywhere.
WHEN A WOLF FALLS IN LOVE WITH A SHEEP From Taiwan, a comedy about a copy shop employee whose life is transformed when he discovers a drawing of a sheep on the back of a sheet of paper.
She seems destined for life as a field slave, but her fate is transformed when Caroline Mortimer, an English widow and the new plantation mistress, moves her into the great house.
Her life is transformed when she takes a job as a model for a class in life drawing, which is taught by an artist named Philip, a rueful Lothario (Mark Jacoby) whose habit of bedding his models and students is offered as the manifestation of his own insecurity as a painter.
A first novel about a young girl whose life is transformed when she wins a spelling bee.
It is essentially a comedy about an Everyman in the manner of Chaplin and Keaton, whose life is transformed when he acquires a beautiful new overcoat and a taste of the envy and lust that it attracts.
"MY FIRST MISTER" The life of a shy men's-wear-store salesman (Albert Brooks) is transformed when he meets a nihilistic, 19-year-old Goth (Leelee Sobieski).
Mr. Flaherty, who had seen "Canary Bananas" — his daughters had attended Mr. Leacock's school — hired Mr. Leacock as a cameraman and associate producer on "Louisiana Story," which in documentary style told the fictional story of a 12-year-old Cajun boy whose world is transformed when his father allows an oil rig to drill in an inlet behind the family home.
Inuyashiki is an incredible science fiction manga from Hiroya Oku, and it follows Inuyashiki Ichiro, and old-looking man with a mean-spirited family whose life is transformed when he's hit with a powerful beam and has his body replaced with a machine.
I think the whole attitude of a neighborhood is transformed when Habitat comes in and takes over a model place in the middle of a neighborhood -- everyone tries to emulate or copy what Habitat has done.
Beaten and left in a cell, too ashamed to admit his identity or even where he lives, he is transformed when he is mistaken for a resistance fighter: "A fierce desire gripped me to clap my hands, to sing, to ululate and scream until the layers of necessity, silence, humiliation, and submission were all gone.
