The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor. Closely associated is teenage actor, an actor who reached popularity as a teenager.
In the United States, the activities of child actors are regulated by the governing labor union, if any, and state and federal laws. Some projects film in remote locations specifically to evade regulations intended to protect the child. Longer work hours or risky stunts prohibited in California, for example, might be permitted to a project filming in British Columbia. US federal law "specifically exempted minors working the Entertainment Business from all provisions of the Child Labor Laws." Any regulation of child actors is governed by disparate state law.
Due to the large presence of the entertainment industry in California, it has some of the most explicit laws protecting child actors. Being a minor, a child actor must secure an entertainment work permit before accepting any paid performing work. Compulsory education laws mandate that the education of the child actor not be disrupted while the child is working, whether the child actor is enrolled in public school, private school or even home school. The child does his/her schoolwork under the supervision of a studio teacher while on the set.
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Twenty-something New Yorker Barb Schwartz (Sas Goldberg) somehow ended up in a life that kinda... sucks. She has a paralegal job she hates, a drab studio apartment on Roosevelt Island, and an overbearing family who never lets her forget she's still single. When she is reunited with her childhood BFF, ballet dancer Billy (Jake Wilson), she is inspired to turn her life around by revisiting her first love: comedy.
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Zephyr, a strong-willed adolescent girl, spends her summer vacation with her grandparents in the mountains, waiting for her mother to come and take her back home. Her mother finally shows up, but only to say farewell before going far away places for a voluntary position. But Zephyr is determined that she will not let her mother ever leave her again.
Keywords: childhood, fear-of-abandonment, matricide, mother-child, nature
Zephyr does not want to be left behind, but her mother has her reasons to leave... Can Zephyr's unyielding will stop her?
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Zephyr, a strong-willed adolescent girl, spends her summer vacation with her grandparents in the mountains, waiting for her mother to come and take her back home. Her mother finally shows up, but only to say farewell before going far away places for a voluntary position. But Zephyr is determined that she will not let her mother ever leave her again.
Keywords: childhood, fear-of-abandonment, matricide, mother-child, nature
Zephyr does not want to be left behind, but her mother has her reasons to leave... Can Zephyr's unyielding will stop her?
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Zephyr, a strong-willed adolescent girl, spends her summer vacation with her grandparents in the mountains, waiting for her mother to come and take her back home. Her mother finally shows up, but only to say farewell before going far away places for a voluntary position. But Zephyr is determined that she will not let her mother ever leave her again.
Keywords: childhood, fear-of-abandonment, matricide, mother-child, nature
Zephyr does not want to be left behind, but her mother has her reasons to leave... Can Zephyr's unyielding will stop her?
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James is a man in search of acceptance, friendship, love, an understanding landlord and most of all... a break. In a meeting with a man that could make his career as an action hero, James reminisces on the nine months of training and personal trials that went into the production of his screen test.
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James is a man in search of acceptance, friendship, love, an understanding landlord and most of all... a break. In a meeting with a man that could make his career as an action hero, James reminisces on the nine months of training and personal trials that went into the production of his screen test.
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James is a man in search of acceptance, friendship, love, an understanding landlord and most of all... a break. In a meeting with a man that could make his career as an action hero, James reminisces on the nine months of training and personal trials that went into the production of his screen test.
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James is a man in search of acceptance, friendship, love, an understanding landlord and most of all... a break. In a meeting with a man that could make his career as an action hero, James reminisces on the nine months of training and personal trials that went into the production of his screen test.
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What happens when you put four mischievous children together with a dog and a monkey? Lots of fun, of course! And that's what 'Chhakkad Bakkad Bumbe Bo' (The Sensational Six) is all about - fun, adventure and learnings. The Sensational Six stumble upon a dark secret - of a dangerous smuggler Don Douglas who is all set to destroy the peace of the small town. Two of the boys are caught spying and taken away by the goons. How the rest of the team, with ingenuity and daring, rescue them leads to an exciting action-filled climax. Set in a picturesque Konkan village this entertaining story is also about the fight between the good and the evil and the truth that girls need not be any less than boys. Yeh Hai Chhakkad Bakkad Bumbe Bo is all about 'The Sensational Six' who not only have fun, but also are true-life Samaritans.
Keywords: children, children-in-peril, indian
Award winning children film from India
Indian Children film - adventure of the sensational six
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Dr. Chaudhary must perform multiple surgeries on Major Ranjeet Khanna, who was shot by the Police while trying to escape from custody after killing his wife, Pushpa, and her lover, Prakash. Chances of Ranjeet's recovery are very slim, if he does recover, he could end up mentally unstable or paralyzed. In the event he does recover, the medical staff's efforts would be in vain as he has already been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
Keywords: affection, chase, cheating-wife, death-sentence, doctor, doctor-patient-relationship, dog, dog-squad, escape, flashback