young man

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Shear says he first began his original screenplay with an image of a young man having a panic attack in the self-help section of a bookshop and grew the script from there.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Iskander’s David is a young man whose youthful piety and heroism make him a sympathetic figure, notwithstanding the bag of cold cuts.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Matthew Shear directs a warm, off-kilter dramedy in which he plays an anxious young man who strikes up a relationship with a faded movie star whose children he babysits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

It was a spell at an airbase in South Korea while serving as a young man in the US Air Force that gave Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris the martial arts bug.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

“We were only chatting. It’sssss not every day one meetsssss a young man whose reputation precedes him.”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny