Sentences with phrase «against family drama»

It's also an odds - against family drama, one that will leave you with a great big smile on your face when you walk away from the theater.

Not exact matches

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

But expect drama and stupidity from your associates and family when you first take a stand against a tradition of man which violates biblical truth.

Academy Award ® — nominee Claudia Llosa's (The Milk of Sorrow) decade - spanning family drama is a dreamlike rumination on faith, forgiveness, and family, set against an otherworldly frozen landscape.

For a man seeking a quiet life, Chad Cutler drums up an awful lot of trouble in Adam Smith's rural family drama, Trespass Against Us.

Then there's Pariah, a gritty, dysfunctional family drama ostensibly inspired by Precious (2009), as it is set in the «hood in New York City and features a comedienne (Kim Wayans) cast against type as a monstrous, child - abusing mother.

I'd also like to compare it to dramas like TV's The Walking Dead or War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise in how a father has to fight for his family's survival in an almost apocalyptic environment against all odds and with his fellow humans being a bigger threat than just the situation itself.

Farhadi's drama traces the breakup of a Iranian family set against the political tensions in Tehran.

Post Mortem (Unrated) Romance drama, set against the backdrop of the overthrow of President Allende in Chile in 1973, revolving around a 55 year - old morgue attendant (Alfredo Castro) who embarks on a frantic search for a missing burlesque dancer (Antonia Zegers) he has a crush on, following a raid on her family's home by government soldiers.

A Separation is a multi-layered drama about two well - meaning Iranian families who are set against each other through a series of unfortunate events and cultural norms.

The full theatrical trailer for Shawn Levy's «Real Steel» sets family drama against sci - fi robot action.

The upcoming»60s - set drama sets the fictional Hollywood misadventures of one - time Western TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double Cliff Boot (Brad Pitt) against the Manson family's real - life murder of actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie).

Set in the post-WWII South, Netflix's powerful period drama is based on Hillary Jordan's play and charts the story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape — the McAllan family, with wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) underprepared and overly hopeful for Henry's (Jason Clarke) grandiose farming dreams, and the Jackson family, led by Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), whose families have worked the land for generations.

Soapy drama set against the backdrop of a Miami Beach hotel revolves around the family who owns the business, the staff who run it and the explosive secrets they hide under the perfect exterior.

Somehow director Shawn Levy, leaving the familiar waters of high - concept comedy for family drama set against a vaguely futuristic backdrop of robot action from the dregs of fleapits to the main event of a championship bout, makes it all work as a satisfying experience.

Everybody's Fine (PG - 13 for mature themes and brief profanity) Robert De Niro stars in this remake of Stanno Tutti Bene (1990) the Italian drama about a still - grieving widower who embarks on an impromptu road trip against doctors orders in order to reconnect with his grown children (Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell) after they decline his offer to host a family reunion.

Family drama ensues against the backdrop of real - life political events.

Rooted in the author's own experience, the teen's intense narrative is set against real - life political events (reports from the New York Times are documented in an appendix), while the family drama and revelations continue right up to the end.

Like Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, Fugard has written a profoundly moving family drama, subtly set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil.

Set against the Northern Ireland conflict, The Quiet Life is a family drama full of twists and turns right up to the last page.

From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.