A "pirate story for grownups", about a teenage girl causing mayhem in San Francisco bay, from the author more commonly known as Lemony Snicket.
And what better movie to encapsulate it than "The Shape of Water," a fairy tale for grownups about tolerance and cross-species love?
Barack Obama, who saved his presidential campaign by talking to us like grownups about race relations, could fortify America immeasurably by talking to us like grownups about terrorism.
The leadership we need is a president who will talk to us like grownups about terrorism.
The book that Virginia Woolf characterized as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" is also a book about how to be a grownup person — about how to bear one's share of sorrow, failure, and loss, as well as to enjoy moments of hard-won happiness.
What we said: "Tough Love is full of breathy, grownup songs about romantic yearning, sung in a modulated, understated coo that once again takes Sade as its alpha and omega," wrote Kitty Empire in the Observer.
As for the last-minute twist, a Shyamalan trademark, it will appeal solely to people who saw a particular Shyamalan film, years ago, in the days when he told sombre, grownup stories about guttering marriages and loss.
He said he hoped there were some trade unionists willing to have a grownup discussion about the trade-offs that would be required to introduce a higher minimum wage.
There is, then, no immediate prospect of a grownup conversation about one of the most important domestic issues of the time – which is a pity, because we need one.
