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As Cool as I Am is a 2013 American comedy-drama film directed by Max Mayer. It is based on the novel of the same name by Pete Fromm. Claire Danes, Sarah Bolger and James Marsden star as the Diamond family. Filming on the adaptation began in New Mexico in May 2011. [2] The film was released in the United States on June 21, 2013, by IFC Films.
Publishers Weekly described the novel as "Spirited and sharply intelligent". [2] The San Francisco Chronicle heaped praise in the work "One of the more startling beautiful and evocative tales of young womanhood...Fromm's voice-on loan to Lucy-is provocative, gritty, erotic, hilarious and genuine, and this book is a fresh breath of teen spirit."
Fromm was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, and holds a B.S. in wildlife biology from the University of Montana where he graduated with honors in 1981. A five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award, he is the author of five short story collections, seven novels, and two memoirs.
"She’s cool and orange. She’s funny and silly and goes crazy when she drinks all the soda.” But behind all the fun, even younger kids like her are learning about feelings in the process.
Identity Films is a production company formed by Anthony Mastromauro in 2006. [1] The company has most recently produced the upcoming independent coming-of-age drama As Cool As I Am, directed by Max Mayer, starring James Marsden, Claire Danes and Sarah Bolger, as well as Moonlight Serenade directed by Giancarlo Tallarico and starring Amy Adams, Alec Newman, and Harriet Sansom Harris, as well ...
I am David is a 1963 novel by Anne Holm. It tells the story of a young boy who, with the help of a prison guard, escapes from a concentration camp in an unnamed Eastern European country and journeys to Denmark. Along the way, he meets many people who teach him about life outside the concentration camp.
He discovers the "bombings" were triggered by soldiers subjected to Extremis whose bodies explosively rejected the treatment, and were falsely attributed by A.I.M. as a terrorist plot to cover up Extremis' flaws. Stark witnesses Extremis firsthand when Mandarin agents Savin and Brandt attack him. Stark kills Brandt and incapacitates Savin.
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