Sentences with phrase «about dysfunctional families»

It's become a joke with my parents that I love movies about dysfunctional families.

I love complicated stories about dysfunctional families — even better if some of the story takes place on the beach.

This this drama about a dysfunctional family worth seeing or should this movie be thrown out of court for insufficient evidence?

Comic novels about dysfunctional families certainly aren't new.

This is not the time to get shy about a dysfunctional family — we all have them.

Could we please declare a moratorium on funny - sad movies about dysfunctional families, especially families that come together for the holidays?

Written and directed by Dominique Schilling, A Reason is a perfectly fine film about a dysfunctional family who all come together when their elderly aunt falls ill, solely to be present for the reading of her will.

Papers, Please made a compelling and thought - provoking experience out of being a border guard, while the puzzle adventure Gone Home created an engrossing story about dysfunctional families with no characters or dialogue.

«City Island,» a comedy about a dysfunctional family living on City Island, debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last Sunday.

It's perhaps the smallest Payne film in scope, and the least ambitious in story, which will make it seem like a step back for the filmmaker in terms of his prowess and ability to appeal to those beyond just lovers of quirky seriocomic films about dysfunctional families.

BY GEORGE J. DACRE Antrim Playhouse's latest production «Dividing the Estate» is a play about a dysfunctional family in Texas that becomes even more dysfunctional when granddaddy dies.

Showtime canceled United States of Tara — the series about the dysfunctional family with the matriarch who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder — after seeing its third season ratings plummet.

Solid ensemble dramedy about a dysfunctional family who gathers to sit shiva for their deceased patriarch.

It sounds puke - awful: a formula farce about a dysfunctional family from New Mexico that hops in a VW bus and heads to California, where seven - year - old Olive (Abigail Breslin) will enter the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant and teach her elders what really matters in life.

What do you get when you combine the director of The Iron Giant, the genius animation of powerhouse Pixar and a witty story about a dysfunctional family of superheroes?

Peter Hedges, who scored with a similar hit about a dysfunctional family who find unity through a tragedy in Pieces of April continues to generate warmth and laughs by creating three - dimensional characters that, like most families, are annoying but loving at the same time.

I'm fascinated with books about dysfunctional families when there is survival and redemption and Ruta's story is one of the best.

From creator Alan Ball (True Blood) comes this darkly comic series about a dysfunctional family running a Los Angeles funeral home.

In 2012, she completed work with Griffin Dunne on Justin Schwartz's film THE DISCOVERS, a human comedy about a dysfunctional family.

Doremus, the director of Sundance Film Festival hit Like Crazy, returns to Park City this week for the premiere of his next film, a more ambitious ensemble drama about a dysfunctional family that centers on the father, a music teacher who yearns for his old life as a performer and who finds himself drawn to the family's new foreign exchange student.

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU Director: Shawn Levy Starring: Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll, Adam Driver, Connie Britton, Kathryn Hahn, Rose Byrne, Dax Shepard, Timothy Olyphant, Debra Monk It's become a joke with my parents that I love movies about dysfunctional families.

This is certainly a film about a dysfunctional family, but, even when they're at their worst, this is a group that's particularly pleasant to spend time with, especially Ned.

SING UNBURIED SING is a multi-layered, beautifully written story about a dysfunctional family who live on a farm near the Gulf of Mississippi.

Max Greenfield (left), Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson star in «The Glass Castle,» about a dysfunctional family with an unpredictable dad who drinks and rules erratically.

Xavier Dolan returns to Cannes with a star - studded ensemble drama about a dysfunctional family.

When it debuted 10 years ago today, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» Little Miss Sunshine was quickly embraced by critics and audiences as an offbeat, quirky comedy about a dysfunctional family.

There were the stereotypical characters seen in so many other movies about dysfunctional families, however none of them portrayed interestingly enough to allow me to care about or root for them.

The story is about a dysfunctional family and their relationship with each other, especially when unexpected events force them to all be in the same room.

English literature teacher Paul Darvasi has his students play the point - and - click exploration game Gone Home, which is about a dysfunctional family.