Sentences with phrase «alcoholic fathers»

There is some evidence that alcoholic fathers tend to be more critical and conflicted in their relationships when they have a son.

The high school students depicted in this movie also face challenging personal issues, like mothers who have turned to prostitution, alcoholic fathers, peer pressure that encourages them to be involved in drugs and stolen goods operations, and racial prejudice.

In the new work, Henry R. Kranzler of the University of Connecticut Health Center and his colleagues analyzed differences in taste perceptions of salty and sour solutions between people with and without alcoholic fathers.

Mother - infant and father - infant attachment among families with alcoholic fathers.

Please rescue me and my children we want a better life full of drug addiction, selfishness, alcoholic fathers, crime, and to learn the true art of religious bigotry.

Cron tells the story of growing up in affluent Greenwich, Connecticut beneath the shadow of a mysterious and volatile alcoholic father.

I grew up in a largely dysfunctional family, with an alcoholic father.

I grew up with a rather rough home life, beaten pretty routinely by my alcoholic father, and even though I thought * my * life was pretty normal, after all you do get used to some things after awhile, I also had an undercurrent thought that somehow managed to whisper to me that I wasn't like everyone else out there.

When I read the descriptions of the rages and mood swings of the alcoholic father, I realized that we had the same thing in our family.

We first meet the film's protagonist, Mack, as a young boy with an abusive, alcoholic father.

Mack's abusive, alcoholic father was himself the son of an alcoholic, abusive father.

The Grammy - winning musician plays the alcoholic father of a high school football player in Friday Night Lights

I, on the other hand, am far more jaded, having spent done time as a latchkey kid to a twice - divorced mother and alcoholic father, both of whom have become pretty absentee in my life as an adult.

It gives me pause to consider the upbringing of this Texas latchkey kid, who was thrust into daily chaos with an absent, alcoholic father, a workaholic mother and an older, controlling sister.

We get an excellent view of an introverted, lonely boy who sought the solitude of the woods, swamps and vacant lots of the many Southern towns he briefly lived in as he was moved from place to place by a restless, depressed and alcoholic father who eventually committed suicide.

On that note, Robinson is arguably best known for his contributions to Gus Van Sant's explosive 2003 drama Elephant — the tale of a high school massacre inspired by Columbine — where he played John, a genial and responsible young man burdened by an alcoholic father.

Bec talks on about the sexual abuse she received from her alcoholic father and then pulls a gun on Ned, who manages to disarm her.

Alexander Payne will be returning to the road (where he's had plenty of prior success in About Schmidt and Sideways) with this dramedy about an alcoholic father and his underachieving son traveling from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska to cash in what the father believes is a million - dollar winning ticket from Publisher's Clearing House.

Bollywood veteran Jackie Shroff, assuming Nick Nolte's part as the recovering alcoholic father, delivers the kind of acting reel that would guarantee an Oscar nomination for some Hollywood actors.

Living with an alcoholic father and a workaholic mother, she and her tough little brother try to survive the rough times in their little apartment home.

norma shearer plays a spoilt rich gal jan ashe who defies her family by dating mobster ace wilfong (gable), emancipated by her alcoholic father (lionel barrymore) who encourages her to be free.

As the insistently «Mrs.» Travers shoots down the reasonable suggestions of Disney's long - suffering writer and composers, we discover that many of the details she cherishes in Mary Poppins resonate with her own experience growing up with her loving, but alcoholic father (Colin Farrell) in Allora, a remote town in Australia.

As she walks, she begins to sort out the various demons she has been wrestling with, including living with an abusive alcoholic father, losing her mother (Dern, When the Game Stands Tall) to a fatal illness, as well as the details of her own personal tailspin in her relationships.

Gist: David Grant agrees to drive his aging alcoholic father from Montana to Nebraska to cash a sweepstakes winning lotto ticket, the whole time bonding after years of separation.

Walls» eccentric mother and alcoholic father would stir the the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty... Her world gets turned upside down when they move to New York to be near her.»

WHAT: A hotheaded ex-con named Joe (Nicolas Cage) takes a troubled 15 - year - old boy (Tye Sheridan) under his wing after he witnesses how the hard - working teenager's abusive and alcoholic father treats him, only to get dragged into the middle of the familial dispute.

The film centers on an aging alcoholic father who decides to take a road trip from Montana...

The film marks Payne's follow - up to 2011's The Descendants and centers on an aging alcoholic father who decides to take a road trip from Montana to...

Based on Jeannette Walls» 2005 autobiography, The Glass Castle stars Larson as Walls, a young woman who grows up amid a dysfunctional, poverty - stricken family, including alcoholic father Rex (Harrelson) and artist mother Rose Mary (Watts).

Roughly the first half of the movie focuses on Doss's pre-fighting life, as he deals with his angry alcoholic father, Tom (Hugo Weaving), a World War I veteran who doesn't want to see his two sons join the fighting.

Honey Boy follows the relationship between a younger LaBeouf and his alcoholic father, and in a mind - boggling revelation, Shia LaBeouf himself will play the role.

Like his earlier shorts, Distant Voices was an autobiographical film about growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s, beautiful but somber and almost heartbreaking in its portrait of a family living in fear of its angry, alcoholic father.

At home, Andrew (Dane DeHaan, TV's In Treatment) dotes on his terminally ill mother (Bo Petersen, Endgame) whilst coping with abuse from his alcoholic father (Michael Kelly, The Adjustment Bureau); at school, he bears the brunt of brute force from bullies.

An alcoholic father suffering from the early onsets of dementia gets a sweepstakes notice that he's won a million dollars.

Along the way, we get terrific supporting performances from Kyle Chandler (as Sutter's alcoholic father), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Sutter's mom), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Sutter's sister), Bob Odenkirk (Sutter's boss), and Andre Royo (Bubbles, from «The Wire «-RRB-, as well as from most of the rest of the cast.

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of noncorfomist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stil the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

The best being Gary Poulter cast as the abusive alcoholic father of a 15 year old boy, (played by Tye Sheridan.)

The story concerns two brothers who are haunted by the specter of their alcoholic father (Forest Whitaker), who was killed by one of the sons.

Faced with a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace in nature and daily routine, a respite from her economic and pubescent turmoil.

A woman's dying wish sets her two estranged sons on a road trip to see their abusive, alcoholic father.

Harrelson plays the alcoholic father unable to hold down a steady job, who spins whimsical tales about his dream to build a glass castle in order to distract his children from their unforgiving poverty.

«The Glass Castle» Release Date: TBD Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson and Max Greenfield Synopsis: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

This time, instead of the tropical paradise of Hawaii, we're in the wide, often desolate landscape of Wyoming, Montana, and eventually Nebraska where an aging alcoholic father Woody (Bruce Dern) has set out on foot to reclaim his supposed million dollar winnings in a sweepstakes.

The Glass Castle is an adaptation of Jeannette Walls» memoir of the same name about her unmoored childhood with her alcoholic father and enabler mother.

He lives in a broken down home, with an alcoholic father, and his mentally disabled sister.

Based on Jeannette Walls autobiographical book of the same name, The Glass Castle tells the poignant story of Walls life growing up with her siblings under the care of their parental duo in the form of Naomi Watt's artistic and free spirited Rose Mary and most tellingly Woody Harrelson's intellectually attuned, yet troubled and alcoholic father Rex.

The lowdown: In rural Texas, a hard - drinking, well - meaning man takes a desperate teenaged boy under his wing, setting up a showdown with the boy's abusive, alcoholic father.

Dennis Hopper is especially memorable as an alcoholic father given a redemptive second chance to get on the winning side.

He is also haunted by the memories of his childhood growing up with an abusive alcoholic father.

Holly could make for a funny third - wheel Nancy Drew, ostensibly becoming the parent in the absence of her mother and the incompetence of her alcoholic father, but seeing the young girl in persistent danger of physical or mortal danger leaves a bad aftertaste to much of the action moments, and even when not in the middle of a violent confrontation, her idealized character feels unnatural and scripted.