Sentences with phrase «as desperate mother»

Flightplan features Jody Foster as a desperate mother who has lost her child on a large airplane.

Gabrielle Union as a desperate mother hellbent on saving her two children being held in an impregnable home.

Lesley Manville glitters as desperate mother Mary in O'Neill's grim family portrait.

Not exact matches

Simply put, as part of a desperate attempt to keep America out of recession and himself out of the ranks of unemployed Americans, Obama has torn a page from the questionable Keynesian play book and just asked his political opponents for permission to toss the mother of all Hail Mary passes.

We tend to think of prostitution as a desperate circumstance — a single mother driven to her last resort or a young girl forced into a brothel.

We had all, as medical students, been inculcated with the idea that these mothers were inadequate, if not downright incompetent, and in desperate need of our advice.

So ebil obstetricians are both trigger - happy scalpel fiends, desperate to cut wombyn open as soon as look at them, AND lazy, lackadaisical layabouts who won't go near wombyn with a scalpel until it's too late... Also, you said the woman still wanted to try for a vaginal delivery, so in other words the midwife wanted to overrule the OB AND the woman, and force an operative birth on the mother.

Despite the riveting plot summary, the only things that rescue «The Deep End» from being bland are Tilda Swinton's strong performance as a terrified, desperate mother and a somewhat interesting music score.

As the mother (Reese Witherspoon) of one of the murdered boys tries to come to grips with this unspeakable tragedy, she is desperate to believe that the killers have been found and will be brought to justice.

Synopsis: A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a...

Though the fatal drive - by shooting that incites «Lila and Eve's» plan for vengeance has nothing to do with the police, it's the cops» eager willingness to dismiss 18 - year - old Stephon's (Aml Ameen) death as just another unsolvable casualty in the drug - turf wars — and by extension his mother's desperate need for justice — that sets the fast - moving plot into motion.

Synopsis: A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).

The film's broader shift in perspective is its most impressive, as its sympathies gradually tilt from Lady Bird, a teen desperate to transcend her upbringing, to Marion, a mother who sacrifices her time and her body for her family without reward.

SING stars Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world's greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family's felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award - nominated Tori Kelly.

For her searing turn as a grieving, unapologetically outspoken mother desperate for the local authorities to catch her daughter's killer, Frances McDormand nabbed the Best Actress award for the darkly comedic drama «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Marion Cotillard was named best actress for her performances in two films, «The Immigrant,» as a Polish emigre in New York, and «Two Days, One Night,» as a young mother desperate to save her job.

The movie centers on Max (Taissa Farmiga), a young woman desperate for a deeper connection with her mother (Malin Akerman), a failed actress best known for her role as the «shy girl with guitar and clipboard» in a 1980s slasher classic.

This includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead as the girlfriend who isn't just spectating the madness, Amy Poehler as a bitchy step - mother and Jane Lynch as a fame and accolade hungry faux therapist (or rather researcher) desperate to write a follow - up book to her original studies about Carter and other children living with divorce (hence the film's title).

She is at odds, as teenagers are, with her mother, a hard - working nurse, who's always reminding her how poor the family is and nagging at her to tidy her room, but they're still close and Marion is desperate for her daughter to stay in California.

Convincing herself that the precious keepsake was delivered by a guardian angel on behalf of her long - lost mother, the desperate 12 year - old seizes on the discovery as a promising sign of a possible reunion.

Equally Oscar - worthy is Hayley Squires as a young mother so desperate to provide for her children that she becomes prone to having her impulses drown out her good sense.

Martin McDonagh's dark comedy - drama, which stars Frances McDormand as a mother who takes desperate measures to bring her daughter's killer to justice, received a total of four nominations in total, with nods for McDormand (best female actor), Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell (supporting actor) and best ensemble.

And it raised an uncomfortable question: Could the allegations from Farrow, her brother Ronan Farrow and her mother Mia Farrow, have the potential to derail Blanchett's chances at adding an Oscar to the long list of awards she's received for her performance as a desperate, pill - popping alcoholic in Allen's film?

Vincent (Bill Murray) is a slovenly alcoholic who inexplicably befriends his young neighbor (Jaeden Lieberher) after desperate circumstances force the boy's single mother (Melissa McCarthy) to use the vulgar man as a babysitter.

It has a lot of good supporting work, including Jason Schwartzman as Jack's desperate agent, and Shirley MacLaine as Samantha's mother (her theory on actors: «Sometimes deep down there is no deep down»).

The film banks most of its ambitions on the relationship between Hickok and McCall, depicted here as a cowardly youth desperate to revenge himself upon Hickok for seducing, loving, and then abandoning his mother.

On that note, many of the film's most desperate attempts at humour revolve around the late Queen Mother's continued pronunciation of hotdog as if it were two words.

Julianne Moore stars as Havana Segrand, an actress desperate to headline the remake of a movie her mother, who died in a fire, starred in 30 years ago.

A large part of that is down to the performances she cajoles from her leading cast; Essie Davis is a revelation as a mother desperate to shield her child from the horrors of this taunting beast.

Michelle Williams (Certain Women), as Paul's mother Gail — who married into the family and then antagonized them by divorcing her husband, addiction - prone J. Paul Getty, Jr. — especially shines as a woman desperate to save her son, and who must accept all manner of indignities to get even a fraction of the ransom money.

Mildred Hayes, the ornery Everywoman she plays in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, may prove every bit as enduring a character as Marge, but Mildred is an altogether different type of justice seeker: a mother desperate to have the murder - rape of her daughter solved.

Kirsten Dunst gives another powerful performance as the young boy's desperate mother, while the cast is rounded out by Sam Shepherd as the cult leader and Joel Edgerton as a state trooper supporting the family in their bid for freedom.

As Jack turns five, his curiosity growing and his mother's mental stability starting to fray, Ma understands the boy can not endure this imprisonment much longer and she concocts a desperate plan for their escape.

Mr. Oscar Homolka, a slow, kindly, desperate Mr. Verloc, and Miss Sylvia Sidney, as his innocent wife, raise the melodrama at times to the tragic level, and Mr. William Dewhurst gives a superb performance as the Professor, a soapy old scoundrel who supports his shrewish daughter and her bastard child with a bird business, concocting his explosives in the one living - room, among the child's dolls and the mother's washing.

Breaking In stars Gabrielle Union as Shaun Russell, a desperate mother trying to break into a home with impenetrable security where her two children... Read More

But as Katie, a friend he meets in the welfare line, Squires plays an exhausted, desperate single mother of three unable to afford life in a gentrified London.

As a single mother of five and in desperate need of a new vehicle with out any knowledge of cars I walked cautiously into Tri County Toyota and was me... t by Don Richards.

As a single mother of five and in desperate need of a new vehicle with out any knowledge of cars I walked cautiously into Tri County Toyota and was me

On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street... I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.

Carla, as an adolescent, lives in desperate poverty with her younger brother and grandmother in Guatemala after her mother illegally immigrates to the U.S. in order to provide for her family.

o The distress is not desperate as the child trusts his or her mother to return.

Guys feel cheated as their alone - time with the new mother gets crowded out by the baby's endless, desperate needs.