Sentences with phrase «deadbeat dad»

Manitoba's online initiative matches an Ontario site called Good Parents Pay, which shows photos, last known location, and other information on a rogues» gallery of deadbeat dads.

Having just lost his restaurant inspector job and been dumped by his live - in girlfriend (Amanda Peet), Ritchie reluctantly agrees to visit deadbeat Dad in Atlantic City.

Hugh Jackman, recently outed as a close pal of Rupert Murdoch, plays deadbeat dad Charlie who, in need of cash, offloads his estranged pubescent son (Dakota Goyo) to relatives, but then bonds with the kid during a summer hiatus on the fight circuit.

I have a problem with public «shaming,» too — whether it's being used on deadbeat dads, the customers of prostitutes, or those who fail to pick up dog waste.

Real Steel's human drama is wrought between deadbeat dad Charlie (Hugh Jackman), his abandoned but headstrong son Max (Dakota Goyo, who resembles Jake Lloyd but at the very least has better dance moves), and love interest Bailey Tallet (Lost's Evangeline Lilly).

Adapted from Willy Vautlin's 2010 novel, Lean on Pete follows young Charley, a soft - spoken teen living in Oregon with his father Ray, a stereotypical deadbeat dad given a slightly more multifaceted turn by actor and ex-model Travis Fimmel.

You hear about this type of «deadbeat dad sting» operation every few years, but the most recent one carried out in Alabama used some almost irresistible bait to lure fathers into the police's trap: the promise of two free tickets to the 2011 Alabama - Auburn football game.

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We can't get deadbeat dads to pay up now.

Regardless of athletes» varying levels of emotional involvement with their out - of - wedlock children, they point out, rightly, that they are anything but deadbeat dads.

It's the charismatic deadbeat dad vs. mild - mannered stepdad in the new comedy Daddy's Home, which opens Christmas Day.

There are cameos from Kenan Thompson as a wisecracking retail manager, and Matt Dillon, who smirks his way through his role as the cop, and Christopher Lloyd, embarrassingly hung out to dry in some cruel parody of dementia, and Peter Serafinowicz, in a perplexing role as the simpleton stoner deadbeat dad to Caine's grandchild.

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Since then he has cropped in a lot of tortured - artist roles: He played a struggling musician and deadbeat dad in So Yong Kim's «For Ellen,» an aspiring playwright in «Being Flynn» opposite Robert De Niro as his father, a successful novelist in the comic fantasy «Ruby Sparks» (written by his girlfriend and co-star Zoe Kazan), and a cross-dressing literary aspirant in «The Extra Man.»

Lean on Pete stars Charlie Plummer, right, as Charley, a soft - spoken teen living in Oregon with his father Ray, a stereotypical deadbeat dad, played by Travis Fimmel, left.

In an operation reminiscent of the «deadbeat dad sting» I discussed here (that used the irresistible bait of two free tickets to the 2011 Alabama - Auburn football game to lure fathers with outstanding child - support warrants into the police's trap), the Derbyshire (U.K.) police were able to arrest 19 suspects with the promise of a crate of beer.

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Start - ups in the field, from day - care - referral businesses to collection services targeting «deadbeat dads,» find that piggybacking on large companies is a great way to tap consumer markets.

After a childhood marred by substance abuse and a deadbeat dad, I made a friend who would change my life.

Your belief that family planning is destructive to society and leads to licentious living and deadbeat dads is naively simplistic.

If you are opposed to deadbeat dad / moms, do nt become one yourself.

They have the option of being distant fathers, deadbeat dads, and moving on with their lives with little repercussions but a child support bill they may or may not pay.

But that surely didn't stop her from accusing Travis Scott of being a deadbeat dad, or of not caring or being involved in the pregnancy.

I never before could imagine how any father could become a deadbeat dad and forsake his children, and I will never do that!

Calling one parent a hero to the exclusion of the other sets up an unhealthy and unnecessary divisiveness exactly at a time when more men are hands - on dads, when we're talking about more egalitarian partnerships and when even so - called poor «deadbeat dads» are actually finding meaningful ways to be involved in their children's lives.

After a divorce, some men retreat from their children's lives, but the stereotype of the deadbeat dad is misleading: The same dads that refuse to pay child support are usually men who provided little support before they got divorced.

Since the 1970s the academics Charlie Lewis and Michael E Lamb, among others, have challenged stereotypical and one - dimensional portrayals of fathers as «deadbeat dads» or «play partners» incapable of the serious business of rearing a child.

As for «deadbeat dads,» I do discuss above that there are multiple sides to see, that what you see changes over time, and that what you see comes from interactions between parents.

While it's sad that this little boy won't know his dad, he has a mom who'll always be in his corner, and that counts for so much more than a deadbeat dad who has to be forced to be a father figure.

Rangel says he was raised «on the other side of the tracks on Lenox Avenue in Harlem» by an abused mother and a deadbeat dad (of Puerto Rican heritage).

They're often branded as thoughtless and irresponsible, but teenage mothers and deadbeat dads may be making the best of their bad situations

There's no need to say that your divorce was just final after three years of divorce court, that your ex doesn't support you, or that he's a deadbeat dad.

(In Over The Top, Sylvester Stallone similarly plays a deadbeat dad who must win back his son and the title.)

Only Hugh Jackman could make a deadbeat dad likable.

This is the story of a deadbeat dad developing a lasting relationship with his son, that happens to have robots.

Occasionally a movie comes along that's such an awkward compilation of ideas it fascinates: The Forger, a Boston - set melodrama involving cancer, Impressionist art and deadbeat dads, is only about half that good.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

If you're a successful rap star, you might want to think twice before returning to the ghetto to track down the deadbeat dad you never knew..

Chandler grows some scruff and shaggy hair to play the deadbeat dad to Miles Teller's character.

Nor is that a slam on the rest of the cast, all of whom do impressive work — especially Friday Night Lights's Kyle Chandler, whose performance as a deadbeat dad might be best described as «Bleary Eyes, Pickled Heart, Totally Lost.»

Summary Capsule: The squandered potential of an upper class family of geniuses gets one last chance at redemption when the deadbeat dad, the architect of their woes, attempts to win his back into the fold.

The second act begins with Joe seeking help from his ex-son-in-law, Murphy (Peter Serafinowicz), whom is a drug dealer and a deadbeat dad.

«Janie Jones» gives a new meaning to the word «heart - warming» as adorable / awkward tween Breslin is suddenly dumped on her deadbeat dad, a burnt - out punk rocker played by Alessandro Nivola, in what is surely his best screen performance to date.

She and her sister were illegitimate daughters of a deadbeat dad.

The span of Linklater's story, if it can even be called that, allows him the latitude to leisurely explore Mason's relationships to his mother (Arquette), sometimes - deadbeat dad (Hawke), sister (Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter), and a rotating cast of friends, girlfriends, and step - siblings.

Wheeling from his mother's death, Decker begins a wayward journey through the underworld of art forgeries, and finds himself living in Las Vegas with his deadbeat dad.

Eliot is equally uncomfortable with his lawyers» intention to dig up all the dirt they can find on Eloise's drug - using, deadbeat dad.