Sentences with phrase «backwater town»

A five - man unit of cops on night patrol get more than they bargain for when they arrive at a creepy backwater town in the middle of nowhere after a call comes over the radio for backup.

Give me London Road, a modestly scaled but more biting musical from BBC Films about an English backwater town trying to recover after a local man is charged with the serial murder of five street hookers.

When a storm hits their sleepy backwater town, the mother of the family starts bleeding from her mouth.

Harington hails from the Ozarks and, in the tradition of William Faulkner and his invented Yoknapatawpha County, writes about a fictional backwater town called Stay More, Arkansas... [Harington] never falters, and you never doubt him for a second.

A single «pastor», his word, not mine, of a 60 member church, in a backwater town in Florida, can cause a global disaster.

Besides being a backwater town, Galveston was vulnerable to the overwater to the storm surges of category 3, 4 and 5 hurricanes.

It's always nice to welcome the president of the United States to our area, some backwater town boards excepted.

An ambitious executive has a life - changing experience when she accepts an assignment to restructure a manufacturing plant in a backwater town.

But Mike is not a helpless man - baby, he's actually a super-spy left to stagnate in a backwater town after his CIA program was disbanded — think Jason Bourne with a bong.

Co-written by Moorhouse's husband, P.J. Hogan, «The Dressmaker» utilizes Kate Winslet as a catalyst that turns a backwater town upside down but makes ample room for the terrific talent of Judy Davis in the role of Tilly's mother, Molly known as Mad Molly, who is convinced that her daughter is guilty and has no hesitations about growling and grousing until, realizing that her little girl may be innocent, takes out her hostilities against the townspeople.

The critically acclaimed Boys Don't Cry is based on a well - documented hate crime in a backwater town in Nebraska.

«If you are a really smart kid in a backwater town in Mississippi — I don't care if you're white or black — this has never been a better time for you,» he said at our event.

Born into a traditional lower - middle - class family and living in a backwater town with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali's prospects don't look great.

My guest post today is by C. Lee McKenzie, blogger and author friend, who has a new middle grade book out that looks awesome: Alligators, witches and a spooky mansion aren't your average neighbors... not unless you live at the edge of the Ornofree swamp in the backwater town of Hadleyville.

This is no backwater town that is fighting to stay relevant in modern society.

The backwater town of Alleppey in Kerala is one of the most romantic places in India.

A backwater town, a creepy clown, and a dead body in the river — it's not Stephen King, but boy, it should be.

«Five hundred years ago a monk in a backwater town at the edge of Germany took on the most powerful men in Europe — the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope — and he won.