Sentences with phrase «as a surrogate father»

The introduction of the character of Artie - a high - school kid who's the target of bullies and Mean Girls - only adds another layer of sitcom - level bonding, as Shrek finds himself acting as a surrogate father for the kid he is hoping to force to assume the burdens of royal office.

And the kid has a bond with the robot as a surrogate father of sorts.

Surprisingly limiting itself to a single passing prison - rape joke, the screenplay (written by Reynolds himself, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) starts to fill in the outlines of an actual moral arc here, as Randall looks to Deadpool as a surrogate father figure, while Deadpool rebuffs every opportunity to play the protector — at least until the arrival of Cable (Josh Brolin, finally giving this franchise an iron - sphinctered straight man), a bio-enhanced super-soldier from the future, who smashes his way into the Ice Box intent on killing Randall.

With this, the film becomes more sure on its legs — particularly after what should have been strong performances from heavy hitters Buscemi and Sevigny, but instead served mostly to run narrative paces (Buscemi as a surrogate father, Sevigny as a surrogate pragmatist) for Charley and Pete.

Between this and «Looper,» Willis had a good year, but his lonely, lovelorn sheriff in «Moonrise Kingdom,» who finds a new lease on life as a surrogate father to the orphaned Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman), is one of the best, warmest and most atypical performances he's ever given.

Finally, Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) finds one of the best roles of his illustrious career in Bobby, the gruff but sympathetic manager of Orlando's Magic Castle Motel, acting as a surrogate father or benevolent protector to all who stay under his roof.

Cassel's character Gregori acts as surrogate father to the kids, but also trains them in more violent ways than most regular upbringings would offer.

Duck Duck Goose (PG for rude humor and mild action) Animated parable about a bachelor goose (Jim Gaffigan) who matures enough to serve as a surrogate father to a couple of ducklings (Lance Lim and Zendaya) he accidentally separates from their flock.

So Nathan Dawkins played by Willem Dafoe, takes her to his laboratory and acts as her surrogate father throughout most of the story which spans from Jodie's up - growing between ages 6 - 7 to 20 +.

Hard family situation and violence that he suffered from his stepfather, forced him to retreat to his own world that sometimes involved his teddy bear toy which he adopted as the surrogate father figure.

Not exact matches

As I'm twice their age, I could easily be their biological father, and I suspect for a few of them I am a kind of surrogate parent.

They suspected that the speaker was radically relativizing the nuclear mother - father team in order to replace it by some, vague model of the church as a new family surrogate.

In our history, in our society, in our churches, the heterosexual box is that into which girls are pressed into ladies who should marry and who must be held within the social order as subordinate to husbands, fathers, or father - surrogates — regardless of the unique and individual capacities, needs, and desires of either women or men.

On Friday, Brown was joined by a large entourage, which included members of his own family and that of Chris and Andy Tripp, the godparents whom he regards as a surrogate mother and father.

-- Amber Campanelli, on her feelings towards the baby she carried as a gestational surrogate for the first father - father birth certificate ever issued in Montana (she works for us now!)

For example, Germany requires that intended parents work with surrogate who are single; otherwise the surrogate's husband will be treated as the father of the child.

In the surrogacy process, this research applies to both surrogate partners and intended fathers as both parties are affected by the pregnancy.

After desperately trying various methods to rid himself of his new «problem», Joon - soo embraces life as a teenage surrogate father.

«Dogtooth» involved a family sequestered by a perverse father, and «Alps» explored grief with a bizarre story of amateur actors who rent themselves to families as surrogates for the recently deceased.

Consider that even the climactic set - piece involves a monorail system Bruce's father built as a way to ease the financial burden of the city's desperate classes being used by a surrogate father intent on wielding terror as a weapon of mass destruction.

It goes without saying that Batman Begins is the best prequel of the summer, a film that allows Liam Neeson as Bruce Wayne's mentor / surrogate father figure to make amends for The Phantom Menace and offers a peek, along with Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, at the full grim panorama of what the Star Wars films have squandered.

Jesse Pinkman fans should be pleased, as Paul graduates from playing a rebellious surrogate son to a frustrated, flawed father in writer - director Kat Candler's third feature.

With her recently - late grandfather a comrade - in - arms to Miyagi - san, Miyagi goes to live with Julie as a surrogate — wait for it — father to help her through the Scylla and Charybdis of dead parents and puberty.

The surrogate father motif is alive and well in «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» as M. Gustave seems to be jackass louche who has his way with women including the very old and recently deceased Madame D.

At the university, Jesse forged a close relationship with his track coach, Larry Snyder (Jason Sudeikis), who also served as something of a surrogate father.

But a specific type of surrogate father, the cad, has appeared in several as well.

Exorcist II: The Heretic stars a particularly impliable Richard Burton as Father Lamont, an exorcist asked by the Catholic church — for reasons unclear no matter how often they repeat the word «heresy» — to investigate the final days of the exorcist, Father Merrin (Max Von Sydow, reprising his role from the original film in mock flashbacks), necessitating that Lamont pay a visit to Regan (Linda Blair), The Exorcist's pre-teen victim and Merrin's surrogate killer.

Seimetz is also terrific (and terrifically sad) as Martha, a depleted surrogate mother and father who finds some comfort in sleeping with her father's young attorney.

With Morris From America, Craig Robinson finally gets to exhibit a little dramatic range, playing a concerned father (actual, rather than surrogate) as complex as the one Ali portrays in Moonlight.

And so begins not so much a friendship as a professional dependency and surrogate father / son relationship.

These anthropomorphic, NYC sewer - dwellers have been trained in the martial arts by a rodent referred to as Master Splinter (Mako), their sensei and surrogate father.

There's always the hovering director, Anderson taking the role of surrogate father echoed in so many of his films (the paternal mentor being a key figure in all his features bar Punch - Drunk Love (2002)-RRB-, willing (as Hall says) a specific kind of performance and, like a stern parent, ensuring there'll be no skylarking among his actors by determinedly interposing himself and his camera between them.

Rather than focus on the lowest point in Lee's life — the tragedy that drove him from the film's titular town and estranged him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams)-- Lonergan moves back through time freely, showing specific moments in Lee's past, even as he struggles with a new challenge: being a surrogate father to the now - teenaged Patrick after Joe dies.

Greeting her at the door where they're sitting Shiva is Rabbi Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), her father's disciple / surrogate son, her childhood friend, soon to be chosen as her father's successor.

Along the way we get plenty of macho bonding, laddish hazing and a wily Jeff Bridges as the Hotshots» surrogate father.

But really, what's happening is that the new McGregor is falling for Bea, and as they grow closer, Peter becomes more and more unhinged, threatened by, essentially, the potential step - father wooing his surrogate mother — after the death of his parents, Bea took care of Peter and his siblings, and he resents the new McGregor for coming between him and Bea.

Suffice to say that Danny DeVito, as a fertility doctor, impregnates the hero, who is both father and surrogate mother of the embryo.

The surrogate father - son relationship that develops between Gary and Joe is as familiar as they come, while there's no doubt whatsoever everything is building up to a violently melodramatic conclusion.

responds an angry Bob Hoskins as Bobby Darin's father, who, one part Brooklyn hood and one part Russian bear, acts as the artist surrogate trying to pre-empt the chief criticism most will have of this creepy exercise in flaccid masturbation.

Meanwhile, The Last Samurai lifts the nursing - from - injury / courtship / surrogate father cycle whole from Peter Weir's Witness (an accidental voyeur moment nearly shot - for - shot), marking the piece as over-familiar even as the realization that we are in this film only about sixty - years before the Japanese begin their massacre of the Chinese at the onset of WWII provides the piece a sort of ambivalence that compels as the one thing truly its own.

The film is also about surrogate fathers and defenders; watch for a young Robert Duvall as the mysterious Boo Radley, a ghost and a hero.

The cold, clear beauty of Hanks» performance saves the movie from its director's misguided priggishness regarding bloodshed, and the chemistry he works up with Paul Newman and Daniel Craig, as a very bad father surrogate and a far worse faux - brother, respectively, is anything but bloodless.

He thrives on the easy, solid human relationships he's formed, first as big brother and surrogate father to Mark when they were abandoned as children, and now as a loving husband and father to his wife (Sienna Miller) and rambunctious kids.

Joel and Ellie start off as uneasy companions, but they're going to grow on each other, and soon after that, Joel will become a surrogate father to Ellie.

You play as Jodie Holmes, wonderfully acted by Ellen Page, as you follow her throughout various stages of her life, from a young child to adulthood, as she deals with possessing supernatural powers from being linked to an incorporeal entity named Aiden, who has been with her since birth, with Willem Dafoe co-starring as Nathan Dawkins, a researcher in the Department of Paranormal Activity and Jodie's surrogate - father - figure.

Who is treated as the child's father / second parent is complicated, and depends on factors including the surrogate's relationship status and where conception takes place.