Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

* Cyborg, a film featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, tells the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth due to a nuclear disaster, and has a female cyborg as a central character.

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

The film tells the story of two girls, Agnes and Elin, who attend school in the small town of Åmål in Sweden.

The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.

The film tells the story of a woman desperate to escape her abusive marriage to a member of the British aristocracy.

* Joseph ( film ), a German / Italian / American television movie from 1995, which tells the story of Joseph in the Hebrew Bible

Set in Dublin, Ireland, the film tells the true-life story of the charismatic leader of a gang of thieves, Martin Cahill, at odds with both the police and the IRA.

It was followed by an autobiographical film, De unge år: Erik Nietzsche sagaen del 1 ( 2007 ), scripted by von Trier but directed by Jacob Thuesen, which tells the story of von Trier's years as a student at the National Film School of Denmark.

A quagga appears in a sequence in the Soviet Union's animated film The Cat Who Walked by Herself, in which a dog tracks the hoofprints of one, and a cat tells a boy of the Red Book of endangered species, and how Quagga had " her track severed " ( that is, made extinct ) due to Man's selfish actions.

The film takes place in Italy during World War II, and tells the story of a sergeant with his group of soldiers.

The film tells the story of a young woman suffering from severe depression who rediscovers the joy in life when she finds out that she only has days to live following a suicide attempt.

" The Tackle is mentioned in the film Castaway where Kelly tells Chuck that the Titans had a chance to tie the game but failed " by one lousy yard ".

The 1981 film Quest for Fire by Jean-Jacques Annaud tells the story of a group of neanderthals searching for their lost fire.

The Dude is mostly inspired by Jeff Dowd, a member of the anti-war radical group the Seattle Liberation Front ( The Dude tells Maude Lebowski during the film that he was one of the Seattle Seven, who were members of the SLF ).

The film tells the story of Cole Sear ( Haley Joel Osment ), a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist ( Bruce Willis ) who tries to help him.

* The 1992 film The Lawnmower Man ( which bore little resemblance to the Stephen King story on which it was ostensibly based ) tells the tale of a research scientist who uses a VR system to jumpstart the mental and physical development of his mentally handicapped gardener.

* March 27, 1966: Walt Disney produced his final film, a promotional where he tells Florida residents the plans for Walt Disney World and EPCOT the city

In his book and later film by the same title, America America, he tells how, and why, his family left Turkey and moved to America.

The opening in the final cut reused a scene from the middle of the film where Jane tells Ricky to kill her father.

Loren in Kenya while serving as Goodwill Ambassador in 1992In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in Rob Marshall's film version of Nine, based on the Broadway musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film ; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother.

As Martha tells her story about punching George in the stomach in front of her father to Nick and Honey, it is heard very clearly while in the film it became distant and muffled as the camera followed George into another room to get a gun.

The film tells the story of Anne Boleyn.

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

Sometimes the audience response to a cult film is somewhat different than what was intended by the film makers.

During the film, his reputation is discussed, and he somewhat lampoons his own reputation for being a temperamental director.

While the ending of the film does look somewhat ambiguous, Toho confirmed that King Kong was indeed the winner in their 1962 / 63 English-language film brochure Toho Films Vol.

This technique can be employed with any film camera and can be somewhat mimicked with photo-editing software such as GIMP or Photoshop.

The name of the cut refers to the shape of the cut pieces of the film-the audio track is cut somewhat after ( or before ) the last frame of video, resulting in roughly L-shaped film ends, as the video and audio parts of film are in tracks, one below, one above, on the film itself.

The longest film telecast prior to this was Olivier's version of Richard III, which, unlike Oz, was somewhat edited and not telecast in prime time.

To date, all of the film and TV adaptations have strayed somewhat from the original plot, some going as far as to give it a happy ending.

This action / martial arts film depicts a somewhat exaggerated view of what one of the worst suburbs ( which is what banlieue means, roughly translated ) would be like 6 years in the future.

In the meantime, some YCDTOTV cast members continued to hone their on-camera skills through appearances in Bear Rapids, a Price / Darby pilot film that was never picked up, and Something Else, a local game show on CJOH with a format somewhat similar to the live and local episodes of YCDTOTV.

The film became somewhat contentious when, according to Mike Figgis, HBO altered it once he had completed it.

Garson's popularity dropped somewhat in the late 1940s, but she remained a prominent film star until the mid-1950s.

The gray suit worn by Cary Grant throughout almost the entire film has taken on somewhat iconic status.

The version of Captain Hook who appears in the Disney animated film adaptation of Peter Pan is somewhat of a comic relief character, a spoiled fop prone to crying out for help as well as being called a codfish and having his clothes repeatedly ruined.

A first-hand viewing of the film reveals a story dealing with the adventures of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon, who live a somewhat idyllic existence playing in the bayous of Louisiana.

Some, such as film critic Ben Mankiewicz, have asserted that Mae Clarke's surprised and seemingly somewhat angry reaction to the grapefruit was genuine, as she hadn't been told to expect the unscripted action.

Initially, McElwee thought the film would be a " synthesis of Backyard and Space Coast ," but the day after filming the Scottish games, his sister " said — somewhat seriously, somewhat joking —' You should use the camera as a way to meet women.

As is true in many literary first-person narratives, McElwee's approach in Sherman's March is simultaneously very revealing and somewhat mysterious: the candidness of the scenes is frequently startling, but the more the film — and McElwee-as-narrator — reveals, the more we realize that there are many aspects of the relationships he is recording that we are not privy to.

Time magazine said the film was a " grade-A love story " done with " taste and distinction " though it was " somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic.

This was expanded on somewhat in the film version, where Ford is almost run over while attempting to greet a blue Ford Prefect.