Sentences with phrase «alcoholic mother»

Sam Rockwell is on great form (in an albeit not completely unfamiliar role) as a sarcastic motor mouth, Anna Sophia Robb brings the sweetness as Duncan's crush, Susanna, while Allison Janney is a great mixture of funny and tragic as Susanna's more or less alcoholic mother.

Miral is born in 1973 and her unreliable, alcoholic mother dies a few years later.

And for now, she still lives at home in a dead - end corner of New Jersey with her cynical, emphysema - ridden Nana (a scene - stealing Cathy Moriarty) and bitter, alcoholic mother Barb (powerhouse comedian and cabaret star Bridget Everett, «Fun Mom Dinner»).

And Arnold, who won an Oscar for her shattering short film «Wasp» (2003), also about a neglectful alcoholic mother, deserves comparison with a British master director like Ken Loach.

Halfway There (Director: Rick Rosenthal, Screenwriter: Nick Morton)-- When recovering addict Jimmy Bishop finds his sober living facility teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, he is forced to take in his wealthy alcoholic mother as a client.

When not in action mode, the film tries to placate audiences with gratuitous beefcake, sophomoric marriage comedy clichés, and typical sitcom staples like a disapproving, controlling father and a comical alcoholic mother.

In this riveting memoir, Wendy Lawless details growing up with Georgann, her beautiful, volatile, alcoholic mother prone to dramatic gestures that included multiple marriages and suicide attempts.

Next up, I was taken by Becky Beasley's exhibition at Plan B «Depressive Alcoholic Mother» is permeated by questions of position and reciprocity.

Also among the lowlights are bits making light of substance abuse, including a running joke about Ronnie's foul - mouthed alcoholic mother (Celia Weston) and another about a co-worker (Michael Pena) hooked on heroin.

His rough upbringing — which includes a revolving door of stepfathers, an alcoholic mother who chased him around with a knife, and a period of homelessness — makes a compelling origin story, a tale he still emotionally unspools at his seminars decades later.

She now recalls painfully that as a child she was programmed to fail by her alcoholic mother (Cameron was to be the successful child).

Nicole grew up with an alcoholic mother who would yell at her for the smallest things, and if she had been drinking too much would even hit her in a rage.

When the mother is the alcoholic, the identity problems are reversed, and they are compounded by the limitations of the alcoholic mother's ability to give to her children.

Michael Trout, has created a compilation of 18 poems as if written by prenates, babies and young children, describing their experiences with life: from living with an alcoholic mother, to circumcision; from losing a twin in utero to the joys of individuation.

Another interesting finding: there was a case report from Denmark of an alcoholic mother giving birth to twins; one was affected with FAS and the other was not.

After a troubled teen leaves the group home and moves back in with his alcoholic mother, he learns his girlfriend is dating someone else.

As a treat for his alcoholic mother (Tuesday Weld), a teen (Charlie Schlatter) kidnaps Elvis Presley (David Keith) and brings him home.

Jack Reynor stars as John, a Dublin taxi driver trying to manage his alcoholic mother (Toni Collette) and Down Syndrome brother.

We watch as Jeff struggles to recover with the help of Erin and his family, namely his alcoholic mother, with whom he still lives.

Eighteen - year old Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw) lives in Southern California with her younger sister (Maya Raines), her alcoholic mother (Lili Taylor) and Mama's latest man.

Receiving no help or support from her alcoholic mother and gorgeous sister, the easily led Emily falls in with a bad crowd, and before long she is sent to prison for a robbery she didn't commit.

The scene stealer is Place (I'll See You in My Dreams, The Hollars) as the ambivalent, alcoholic mother.

Canadian sisters (Abigail Breslin and Georgie Henley) who have been at the mercy of their alcoholic mother (Sorvino) and her abusive boyfriends for as far back as they can remember.

Jonas (Josh Wiggins) works on his family ranch alongside his emotionally distant father (Joe Cobden), while his alcoholic mother (Vickie Papavs) spends her days and nights drinking in the house.

John (Jack Reynor) lives a life of monotony driving a taxi, often pulling late night shifts just to keep afloat while playing parent to his alcoholic mother Jean (Toni Collette).

If some of the scenes involving the supporting cast aren't always as solid as they could be — despite the presence of Miranda Richardson as Bauman's alcoholic mother — the leads are capable of carrying most of it by themselves.

Carey plays Billie Frank, a pop singer whose childhood is spent in smoky lounges listening to her alcoholic mother sing the blues until the fateful night mom falls asleep with a cigarette and burns down their tattered home.

In addition to constant fat shaming, she endures a selfish, alcoholic mother (comedian Bridget Everett playing it straight), a dying grandmother (Cathy Moriarty) and rejection of her rhymes.

Starring Jack Reynor, Toni Colette and Will Poulter, it tells the story of a young man trying to cope with an alcoholic mother in Tallaght.

It particularly focuses on Harding's complex relationship with her abusive, alcoholic mother, played by Allison Janney, whose temper and foul mouth both tormented Harding and drove her to stardom.

All we'll say is that Shane (Jack Reynor) is a young Dublin based taxi driver, attempting to deal with his alcoholic mother (Toni Colette) and a best - friend (Will Poulter) whose impending departure to Australia will see Shane's last connection to a somewhat normal life being cut away.

After a long day at the Little Shop of Melancholy he trudges home to be greeted by his hypochondriac, alcoholic mother.

He dumps his girlfriend when she tells him she's pregnant, and moves back into the trailer where his alcoholic mother lives with her rather unpleasant boyfriend.

As her obsessive - compulsive disorder spirals out of control, Claudine finds herself buried under home and school duties after her alcoholic mother appears to have abandoned her.

# 13: CHANEL BONFIRE by Wendy Lawless «There are bad mothers and there are alcoholic mothers, and then there are bad, alcoholic, psychotic mothers like Georgann Rea.

When her alcoholic mother neglects paying rent, Zoe finds a new home and it feels like heaven — until her problems reappear like found luggage.

He is physically unable to speak despite years of therapy, he feels detached from his grieving, alcoholic mother, and he's gotten into trouble more than once for fighting and stealing things.

Caring for her alcoholic mother and her three younger siblings almost overwhelms 15 - year - old Katherine as she tries to keep her family's plight a secret from her father, her teachers, her neighbors, and the authorities.

Maggy escapes from her alcoholic mother at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café where she meets Cole, an enigmatic, abusive, and homeless Pied Piper.

Homecoming means confronting both Mary Lee's long - strained relationship with her alcoholic mother and the fears that her husband's father means to claim the baby she carries.

At the center of this multigenerational novel is Eileen Leary, who cares for her alcoholic mother, falls in love with an eccentric neuroscientist, raises a son and works a demanding nursing career before Alzheimer's threatens her husband — and her family's very fabric.

Her beloved husband, Tim, has left her, her alcoholic mother, Gloria,...

Brady Hartsfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born.

Abandoned by his father, abused by his alcoholic mother, and mocked by his classmates, his only treasures are his beloved little brother and his old guitar.

The narrative canvases loosely depicted his own childhood growing up with an alcoholic mother and hapless salesman father.

I wish I became involved with the coalition much earlier in my striving for custody of my children from their alcoholic mother.

How might it be supposed that the alcoholic mother should be prevented from committing the crime of administering a noxious substance to her unborn child?