For both of those films to lose to yet another likeable, comfortable story about the American government running con games in the 1970s -- also the subject matter of last year's winner, "Argo" -- would be a travesty.
A likeable mistress' story is written in such a way that you don't even view her as a mistress but rather a woman who just happens to be involved with a married man.
It's not a home run — it is, at times, downright terrible — but simply by delivering a fun superhero story with likeable characters, it feels like a victory.
No story, no likeable characters.
It makes Santana more likeable and makes the story line more engaging.
Choose from these to write a believable, likeable companion for your story's protagonist.
Religion has long played a part in some national cinemas, so it's no surprise that fundamentalism has a role in the likeable, earnest Iranian lesbian love story, "Circumstance".
This has always struck me as an entertaining, likeable and brash modern fairy story shot with tremendous pizzazz - but not exactly profound on the question of globalisation, poverty, 21st-century India or anything else.
He's glib, optimistic, likeable, and has a great personal story.
The interloper's friendship with Simmonds junior, who grows up into the story's not very likeable narrator, nicely evokes the conspiracies and complicities of boyhood, and what happens when one friend grows up more quickly than another.
