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Jay Chou plays an orphan raised in a kung fu school, but kicked out by the corrupt headmaster after fighting with a bunch of thugs in the employ of a nefarious villain.
Unsatisfied with others who have cooperating families who could make claims, they find Spiro (Carmelo Di Mazzarelli) a doddering, half senseless old man they are reassured to be told is an orphan and who has been imprisoned by the communists for fifty years, and sign him up as the Albanian figurehead "president" of the company.
This is a delightful tale of an orphan born in Newgate prison where her mother was waiting to be hanged.
As kids, they were troublemakers getting kicked out of orphan homes because of their appalling behavior.
In the slum in Morro da Sinuca, a couple of days before turning eighteen year-old, Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) tells his best friend and also orphan Acerola (Douglas Silva) that he misses his unknown father.
Davandeh (The runner) is a cinematic ode to the spirit of Amiro, a young orphan boy who seeks to excel in what ever he does, to know more and look beyond his present boundaries, and to seek this knowledge through formal education that has eluded him thus far in life.
It makes us to identify with its main heroine, the orphan herself who after many years comes back to the very house she used to share with her childhood friends, also orphans and where she wants to open the house for the handicapped children.
In 'The Promise' Cecilia Cheung plays Qingcheng, an orphan girl trying to survive.
Deranged wig-maker/barber/dentist/doctor (whew!) Sweeney Todd (Ben Kingsley) kills rich Londoners and keeps an abused, mute, pale orphan around as a slave.
She plays dual roles in this adaptation of William Locke's novel--both the crippled, rich and beautiful Stella Maris and the abused, ugly orphan Unity Blake--the two central characters.
I was an orphan and identified with this child's yearning and searching for his parents.
William Holden was a grumpy old loser and Ricky Schroeder was a whiny little orphan twerp in this piece of crap.
The rags to riches story of two orphan con men: one, a genius Brit, the other, the American spin doctor.
Kelly was an orphan.
In a plot that makes a pretzel look like a breadstick with a ramrod up its spine they are cast as orphan and self-appointed 'mother' (don't ask); Mitchum grows up on a ranch with no male role-model as the 'outsider' of three children - the others being the biological son and daughter of Anderson.
but used an orphan to assist her.
When the Irish orphan Mary Yellen (Maureen O'Hara) travels to Jamaica Inn to live with her aunt Patience (Marie Ney), the coachmen of her stagecoach refuses to stop in the infamy inn, and Mary asks for help in the house of the magistrate of the Justice of the Peace Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton) that rides with her to the inn.
There were many holes in the plot also, like how did the orphan kid survive the Ebola virus in the first place, and why did that crazy doctor lady fake her death?
Also there is the huge coincidence that the only person who survived the Ebola virus in Uganda (the orphan) who is also the only person whose blood can be used to make a cure, miraculously is at the hospital where the breakout of the virus occurs.
Encouragingly, rogue fishing is no longer viewed as an orphan policy issue in some countries.
A black child in a largely white world, he will always be “the orphan Madonna adopted.”
Here is perhaps the biggest orphan idea: pro-market does not necessarily mean pro-business.
Now that the so-called liberal establishment is feeling the nationalist, bigoted backlash that its own illiberalism brought about, it is responding a little like the proverbial parricide who appeals to the court for leniency on the grounds that he is now an orphan.
But Pakistani society is now an orphan, dependant almost totally on both the Pakistani Army and the all-pervasive Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) , which has grown into a state within a state, answerable only to itself .
Further simulations suggest that funds specializing in some drug classes, such as therapies for orphan diseases, could achieve double-digit rates of return with just $250-500 million dollars and fewer compounds in the portfolio.
Chin held that the United States Congress, not a court, was the appropriate body to decide who should be entrusted with guardianship over orphan books, and on what terms.
Darnton’s plan falls short of a universal library, because works in print and in copyright would be excluded; but he believes that Congress might grant a non-commercial public library the right to digitize orphan books.
Governments and donors can help by allocating more funding for local producers of these and many other orphan crops.
Karenin had been left an orphan.
His eldest daughter was already admitted into the society of women; but Frances, the younger, required a year or two more of the usual cultivation, to appear with proper éclat; at least so thought Miss Jeanette Peyton; and as this lady, a younger sister of their deceased mother, had left her paternal home, in the colony of Virginia, with the devotedness and affection peculiar to her sex, to superintend the welfare of her orphan nieces, Mr. Wharton felt that her opinions were entitled to respect.
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