Sentences with phrase «daughter story»

She got that it was a father / daughter story as much as it was a love story.

Thanks for sharing your lovely mother - daughter story from the porch.

By turns quirky, hilarious, and vividly sensory, Kitchens of the Great Midwest is an unexpected mother - daughter story about the bittersweet nature of life — its missed opportunities and its joyful surprises.

This year, films with strong mother - daughter story lines, from «Lady Bird» to «The Florida Project,» are dominating the awards landscape.

Anchored by an expressive mother - daughter story in which unconditional love and enmity often seem one and the same, and elevated by an entrancing Saoirse Ronan (easily among the best and most intimate actors of her generation), Gerwig's accomplished second directorial effort makes you wish she'd spend more time behind the camera.

Director Maren Ade's father - daughter story won sustained applause and rapturous reviews when it debuted on Friday

I think fans of the 80s slasher films will absolutely love this film and I think many will be shocked with how well the mother / daughter story works and the amount of heart it brings to the film.

The film never takes itself too seriously and even manages to throw a touching and heartfelt mother / daughter story into the mix.

In a World works because it is not just silly nonsense like many of this summer's comedies, but a compelling father daughter story set in the goofy, yet interesting, niche world of Hollywood voiceover artists.

Somewhere By Nicolas Rapold How close to home is Sofia Coppola's father - daughter story of Hollywood malaise?

The film moves briskly from one set piece to the next, but there are these little touches along the way that lend the father - daughter story real depth.

Exploring similar themes to Aliu's short story collection, Domesticated Wild Things (winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize), Brass is a unique twist on a mother - daughter story as well as an immigrant's tale, with reflections on abandonment, dreams, disappointment and the kind of resilience it takes to endure, despite all odds.

The father - daughter story line was pretty effective, but the anger management issue could have been explored more effectively since it was so crucial to the story and Hope's personality.

As my friend Alexandria wrote, her daughter Story's love of «boy» things was celebrated:

So when I try to read my daughter a story?

I understand your daughters story quite well as all 3 of my boys had similar issues with different teachers in school until I pulled them and we homeschooled.

I've been telling my daughter a story about the little princess who had to pee.

Despite an underbaked effort to boil Molly's defiance down to a father - daughter story — an overindulged Sorkin instinct in Steve Jobs too — Molly's Game rips along at an exciting pace.

Hollywood has always been lacking in epic mother - and - daughter stories.

I had several issues with it... outside of the core father - daughter story.

It wasn't completely a six year process, because it was on - and - off again, but we always knew it was going to be a mother and daughter story.

Local theatrical productions this week are headlined by the dramatic mother - daughter story, 26 Miles, by the UW - Milwaukee Theatre Department.

Brave has a nice central relationship that feels neutered by meshing wacky hijinks with an earnest mother - daughter story.

Mother - daughter stories have dotted Academy Awards history since the days of «women's pictures.»

«August» was an anomaly in a progression toward authentic mother - daughter stories that began with 1983's «Terms of Endearment.»

Putting that film in the mix gives 2017's mother - daughter stories an unprecedented degree of realness and of timeliness, in larger themes of money worries and challenging authorities.

TheWrap's Steve Pond described it as a «hysterically funny but deeply touching father - daughter story that... doesn't waste a moment.»

I really actually got caught up in the friendship story and the father / daughter story and the fun action sequences and the underdog nature of the movie.

It's also a movie that has serious daddy issues, featuring parallel father / daughter stories — from Scott's attempt to regain visitation rights with Cassie (the adorable Abby Ryder Fortston), to Hank's fractured relationship with his estranged daughter, Hope (Evangeline Lilly), who blames him for the mysterious death of her mother — that drive the overall narrative.

In another father / daughter story that is often referred to as a «story of female empowerment,» Otto Bell's documentary «The Eagle Huntress» exuberantly took over Telluride with Aisholpan's tale; a 13 - year - old Mongolian girl that dares to overturn a long - standing male tradition and become the first female eagle hunter in 12 generations.

It's a wonderful mother - daughter story that I could relate to as well.

Why We're Excited: Director Brett Haley is back at Sundance with Hearts Beat Loud, the father - daughter story that is sure to make our hearts burst with joy.

She has co-written a bestselling memoir with her daughter, Ann Kidd Taylor, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother - Daughter Story (2009), as well as authoring several acclaimed memoirs, including The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (1996).

Fans of Caribbean literature and father - daughter stories should pay attention.

In her second novel, The Photographer's Wife, she continues this trend, choosing the relatively unexplored setting of early 20th - century Jerusalem as the backdrop to an intriguing father - daughter story, with an Atonement-esque exploration of the differences between child and adult understanding.

A moving mother - daughter story, A Special Education is an inspiring account of one mother's journey to acceptance and understanding as well as a family's triumph over daunting circumstances.