Sentences with phrase «deadbeat father»

She would invent completely fictional scenarios tainting him as the «deadbeat father» stereotype to try and make him and those around him believe her lies.

In it, Irving has requested a social worker to mediate a conversation between himself and Billy's deadbeat father.

The Goldfinch tells the story of Theodore Decker who, after surviving a terrorist bombing at an art museum, with his mother being killed, goes on an adventure that sees him involved in art forgeries and living with his deadbeat father in Las Vegas.

Charged with taking his 8 - year - old grandson Billy (a perfectly cast Jackson Nicoll) from Nebraska to live with the boy's deadbeat father in North Carolina, Zisman makes frequent stops to do things like hit on women (at a male strip club at one point), play bingo, shoplift, and generally get in trouble.

SEE ALL TRAILERS BELOW Review: This traditional family drama about a child abandoned by his deadbeat father when he goes to prison and is adopted by modestly distant family has been done many times before.

Treeless Mountain (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in Seoul, about a six year - old girl (Hee - yeon Kim) taken out of school to care for her two year - old sister (Song - hee Kim) by their financially - struggling mother (Soo - ah Lee) who leaves them in the care of their selfish, alcoholic aunt (Mi - hyang Kim) so she can search for their deadbeat father.

Odenkirk's Ross Grant has long given up on a relationship with his deadbeat father (Dern), instead turning to his mother (Squibb's Kate Grant) as his lone figure of parental guidance.

He was even running when Del hired him, on a fast dawn jog through whatever small town in Oregon he and his genially deadbeat father (Travis Fimmel) had just moved into.

I'm named after a useless, deadbeat father.

Not exact matches

Look at Mr. Graham — a deadbeat drug addict that fell into his fathers business, conning people for their money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Awful Nice (R for profanity and sexuality) Tale of redemption about a popular college professor (James Pumphrey) who tries to mends fences with his deadbeat brother (Alex Rennie) as they drive cross-country to their father's funeral.

Boy also prays for the return of the deadbeat - dad (Taika Waititi) he barely remembers but has nevertheless placed on a pedestal, by alternately fantasizing that his father is a war hero, a deep sea diver or a friend of his one - gloved idol, Michael.

Garmadon's villainy extends beyond his island - conquering desires: He's also a deadbeat dad, an absentee father whose egotism and narcissism has left him incapable of the whole fatherhood thing.

Hunter (Ike Barinholtz) is the third father in their little group, but he isn't overprotective but instead sort of a deadbeat dad.

Swallowing his Mexican accent so that he sounds like Pee - Wee Herman's masculine bellhop from Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, the overexposed, generally unpleasant Gael García Bernal plays Elvis — no, not that Elvis (the pic's cheeky title and scattershot allusions notwithstanding), but a sailor who takes his leave of the Navy and tracks down his deadbeat dad, David (William Hurt, who could only be Bernal's biological father in the same metaverse where Marc Anthony sired Dakota Fanning), now a pastor living in Corpus Christi.

John's divorced, deadbeat brother (Sharlto Copley, slightly less grating than usual) and verging - on - bankruptcy father (Richard Jenkins, eternally delightful) are having extreme difficulty coping with the thought of the family matriarch in peril.

But when their deadbeat biological father Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) suddenly arrives in town looking to make up for lost time, the two men engage in a battle of wits to prove who is the better dad.

One of Jenna's greatest sins was letting people believe Tommy's father wasn't around because he was a deadbeat.

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.

The government is again targeting fathers they claim are «deadbeats» and are trying to get out of supporting their children by fraudulently denying they are the father.

While the media correctly portray the difficulties imposed upon women and children by the «Deadbeat Dad» phenomenon, the cameras have yet to honestly capture the warfare waged by a select group of fathers against child supporting, nurturing mothers.

The «deadbeat dad» roundups by law enforcement of fathers who are behind in child support needs to stop.

Colman — who says he prefers the term «family rights» over «father's rights» — starting hearing their stories, and developed a growing awareness of the issues faced by fathers plagued by the so - called «deadbeat dad» stereotype.