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...working-class orphan, Luke McNamara (Jackson) hopes to join the secret society known as the Skulls (based on the real life secret society, Skull and Bones, at Yale) as a way to make influential connections that might allow him to attend law school. Along the way, as he investigates the mysterious death of his roommate, he uncovers the corruption and amorality of an organization concerned solely with money and power...
Most immigrants to the United States come with dreams and families in tow. But Leslie Chang's mother arrived with dreams and little else as an 18 year-old orphan. She was forced to leave three younger siblings behind in Taiwan...
...conflict with a star on the opposing squad and put him in the penalty box for five minutes. Even Vancouver has one: Donald Brashear. In fact Brashear has logged 132 penalty minutes this season and averages about five minutes played per minute in "the box." This wasn't little orphan Annie being smackedup side the head...
...baby Terminators, or starred in any of a zillion teen comedies. But he chose a tougher route to filling out his resume. And as it grew, in his seven major roles before Titanic, a portrait of the young artist began to emerge. So often DiCaprio played the emotional orphan, in a forlorn quest not for a father but for his own budding maturity--for a chance to become the man who needs no father...
Highsmith described The Talented Mr. Ripley as being about "two young men with a certain resemblance--not much--one of whom kills the other and assumes his identity." In the novel, Tom Ripley, an orphan in his mid-20s with a gift for larceny and mimicry, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to go to Mongibello, an Italian resort village where the man's son Dickie Greenleaf (played by Law in the new film) has been idling, to try persuading the lad to return home to the family business. Tom agrees, sails to Europe and, on seeing Dickie, is dazzled...