One of its most likable features is the U-pick flower and herb fields, where, equipped with a pair of scissors and a white plastic bucket, you can have all the pleasure of gardening with none of the work.
In "The Kid: Chamaco," a gauche but likable first feature from Miguel Necoechea, a Mexican boy dreams of becoming a famous boxer.
X+Y is a likable fiction feature developed by director Morgan Matthews from his own award-winning 2007 documentary, Beautiful Young Minds, about young British mathematicians who are on the autism spectrum competing at the International Mathematical Olympiad: a "mathlete" event for superpowered maths brains.
The Waiting Room (105 mins, 15) Directed by Roger Goldby; starring Ralf Little, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Graves, Zoe Telford, Frank Finlay, Phyllida Law The title of Roger Goldby's thin but likable first feature, The Waiting Room, is a metaphor for the imminent death of the old and also, presumably, for younger people at a point of crucial change in their lives.
Manohla Dargis of the New York Times called the "Veronica Mars" movie "a likable, unmemorable, feature-length footnote to the admired television series".
Intensely scary books, they'd hovered in my unconscious for decades, it seemed, and found their ways, uncannily, into my own novels, many of which feature "likable" female protagonists reckoning with a second woman – a sister, a friend, a rival – who is not likable at all, who looms like a dark, libidinal shadow and does all the things the heroine would like to do but can't.
The few TV-based comedies that have become long-running network hits all featured likable main characters whose appeal transcended their setting.
They haven't entirely lost their spirit of mischief – Small Wishes is a likable country jangle featuring the surprising tinkle of a barroom piano – but for the most part, there's a distinct lack of joy, discovery and invention here.
The Paper Mill production, directed faithfully by Mark S. Hoebee on airy sets by Michael Anania, features a likable, vocally strong cast led by Walter Charles, who sings with particular grace as Dolly's cranky prey, Horace Vandergelder.
"Sex Ed" is a likable little comedy that features such a well-conceived and portrayed main character it makes up for the film's slender concept and leaps in logic.
The crowd is handsome, its buzz punctuated by a likable playlist one evening featuring mid-70's era soft rock, represented by 10cc performing "The Things We Do for Love".
