Sentences with phrase «as a family man whose»

Hellraiser's Doug Bradley stars as a family man whose home life is interrupted by a vampire cowboy seeking revenge on his maker.

Not exact matches

As Justin enters college, he decides to try ex-gay ministries — the kind whose Web sites promised «healing» and «deliverance» from homosexuality, complete with testimonies from «ex-gay» men and women that included pictures of them smiling with their families.

Movies were his escape as a young man and a constant for the son of a Navy man whose family moved often.

; the devoted Christian and family man — all seems too wonderful, like the high school senior whose yearbook entry is six times as long as anyone else's.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

Men and women whose parents split while they were growing up are just as likely to have a happy marriage as are folks from intact families, reports a team of Michigan sociologists.

The civil rights activist has served as a spokesman for the family of Garner — a 43 - year - old Staten Island man whose chokehold death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner following a July 18 attempt to arrest him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes — and is also heavily involved in the case of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Mo..

Cast as a man whose desperate attempt to escape the monotony of suburban life includes a bundle of large helium balloons and a lightweight deck chair, Ifans charmed Australian audiences in the family - friendly effort.

Cianfrance's follow - up to the acclaimed Blue Valentine stars Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper as men — one a traveling motorcycle stuntman and new father, the other an ambitious young cop — whose decisions and families are destined to intertwine.

Derek Cianfrance's follow - up to Blue Valentine 81 stars Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper as men whose decisions and families are destined to intertwine.

«Mad Men's» John Slattery co-stars as Lesley's mill worker husband whose own job is in jeopardy, compounding the family's catastrophe.

In addition to the scaling of the peak, we also get the nervousness such treks put upon the families the men leave behind, knowing that people with as much skill have died in the process, including Anker's former partner Mugs, whose dream had always been to climb that particular mountain.

The movie is showing us Barnum as an affable family man whose worst trait is the desire to be accepted by his snooty in - laws.

This reasonably solid B movie, one in the continuum of bizarre Harrison Ford vehicles that combine high - stakes action with household horror, stars Ford as a man whose family is being held hostage by a homicidal crook (Paul Bettany), who needs Ford's help to rob a bank.

Salma and Laila also face turmoil: Laila has found love with a modern Muslim man whose acceptance proves less than unconditional, and Salma discovers that her Christian family in a northern Galilean village is not as liberal as they claim.

Heading the police investigation is Inspector David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo), a man who is as committed to finding the truth as Graysmith but whose willingness to sacrifice family and career for it puts him at odds with the cartoonist.

Well, he's bored white collar type John Clark, a man whose loving family (among them Susan Sarandon as wife Beverly) aren't quite enough to compensate for the throes of mid-life crisis.

The Governator was never more charismatic than he is here, playing a superspy whose cover as a boring family man is killing his marriage.

Affleck plays the central character, Bobby Walker, a suburban family man whose $ 180,000 salary supports a plush lifestyle, and Wells follows him over the course of a year as he suffers the humiliation, rage, despair, and self - loathing of a man cast out of his workplace.

THE PRINCE has a focus on a family man (played by Patric) whose secret past as a high - level Las Vegas mob enforcer is exposed when his daughter is kidnapped.

Jamie Bell is even more touching as Grahame's much younger British ex, whose common man decency is matched only by that of his do - the - right - thing family.

Based on the Broadway hit by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the film featured the top - billed Davis as a spinsterish secretary whose relationship with a local newspaper man (Richard Travis) is temporarily disrupted by an acerbic radio personality (Monty Woolley) forced to stay with an Ohio family after suffering an accident.

Apparently Tim Allen, Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin were all too busy to jump onboard the «RV,» but fellow I - can't - believe - you're - making - this - crap comedian Robin Williams takes the dive as soda corporation exec Bob Munro, a family man whose lost touch with his two kids (played by pop singer JoJo and Josh Hutcherson) ever since he's begun to rise the ranks within his company.

Delivering an explosive performance as a desperate father whose every move could be his last, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson (Fast & The Furious, G.I Joe: Retaliation) stars in Snitch — a story inspired by true events about consequences, redemption and justice, and the lengths that a man will go to in order to protect his family.

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as a Nazi - sympathizing Jew in The Believer, a half - baked teacher in Half Nelson, a man in love with a blow - up doll in Lars And The Real Girl, and most recently, a fledgling musician whose temper and lack of ambition prove destructive to his family in Blue Valentine.

John Hawkes stars as Master Legend, a homemade superhero whose alter ego is Las Vegas resident Frank Lafount, a family man who doesn't get respect at home.

Mads Mikkelsen stars as Lucas, a dedicated teaching assistant at a pre-school in a small town in Denmark, and Annika Wedderkopp is Klara, the pre-school-age girl who adores this gentle man, a family friend whose warm presence is an escape from the tension at home.

As ever, «Mr. Turner» balances out a refreshing sense of humor (here, mostly in the form of the bellowing Spall and his many variations on the grunt) with an affecting story of a deeply troubled soul; a man whose relationship with his father, his colleagues, and his different kinds of families all suffered due to his inability to fully express himself.

So that may be why Fryer — as a 25 - year - old newly minted Ph.D. who had just come to Harvard to be part of the Society of Fellows — reacted so viscerally when a reporter from a major newspaper threatened to out exactly how exceptional he was: a man whose family members were in prison for dealing crack, who had grown up in a profoundly unstable home but had made it to the pinnacle of academia anyway.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

As the danger to More and his family increases, two men will vie for Meg's affections: John Clement, her former tutor and More's protégé who shares Meg's passion for medicine, but whose true identity will become unclear, and the great Holbein, who's artistic vision will forever alter her understanding of the world.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

On the surface, a story by ABC 7's Karen Jordan on Wednesday, December 19 about a young man whose family has been through an unspeakable tragedy receiving a puppy as a gift from Petland seems to be intended as a feel - good piece.

Approximately half of all dogs in the United States are purebred dogs whose breeds were developed to work alongside man as Guide Dogs and Service Dogs, Search and Rescue Dogs, Conservation Dogs, military dogs, trackers, hunting dogs and herders — and always, to be companions, helpers, and the heartbeat of a family and home.

It was shipped back to Sweden to be offered as a prize in the Swedish Association for Art's Christmas raffle, and was won by a man called Fredrik Bergwall, whose family held onto it ever since.

His jury verdicts have ranked in the top 10 highest jury awards in Massachusetts in 2001, 2006, 2007, 2011 and 2014, and include a $ 4.9 million verdict for the family of a man whose leg injury resulted in death, as well as a $ 3.5 million verdict for a woman whose breast reduction surgery resulted in the loss of both breasts.