Sentences with phrase «desperate father who»

Meanwhile, Christopher Meloni plays her sad and desperate father who feels completely lost and abandoned.

«Ant - Man», due to begin production in April, stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, the desperate father who steals Dr. Hank Pym's (Michael Douglas) technology, which enables a human to change size.

Hugh Jackman stars as a desperate father who kidnaps the main suspect (Paul Dano) in the disappearance of his daughter and her best friend.

Not exact matches

In the Old Testament we read of Tamar's desperate evening with her father - in - law Judah, Hosea marrying the prostitute Gomer to prophetically represent Israel's unfaithfulness to God, and Rahab, a prostitute and brothel owner in Jericho, who heroically enabled Joshua's spies to escape.

Based on a novel of the same name by William P. Young, The Shack tells the story of desperate father Mack Phillip who has an encounter with God after his youngster child, Missy, disappears.

While all the interested clubs will be desperate to make a move happens this summer, it's added in the report that it's even more unlikely as Mbappe's father, who is also his agent, prefers to stay at Monaco for another season.

Single parents struggling with children on their own, grandparents exhausted from trying to hold families together, fathers desperate to maintain contact with kids who've been moved miles away: these make our society an unhappier place and blight the life chances of children.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

When he evicts Dennis Nash (Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) and young son (newcomer Noah Lomax), Nash becomes so desperate to provide for his family that he goes to work for Carver — the very man who evicted him in the first place.

(We learn that Duryea never knew his father and is perhaps in desperate need of a father figure who could show him the ropes, like teaching him how to drive.)

Desperate to find answers, he seeks information from his loving father Mr. Ping (voice of James Hong), a man who has never faltered in his care for, or pride in, his son.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG - 13 for profanity, disturbing images and mature themes) Post 9/11 drama about a 9 year - old boy's (Thomas Horn) desperate search for the lock that matches the mysterious key left behind by his father (Tom Hanks) who perished in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

Left out of the awards season this year is the equally amazing Ewan McGregor who could bring anyone to tears in his turn as the desperate father and husband.

The other story involves a boy, played by Oakes Fegley (of Pete's Dragon), desperate to meet his father who he believes is in New York.

It's way too easy to draw a parallel between bittersweet chocolate and this German director's exquisite new film, Toni Erdmann, a black comedy about a stressed - out corporate exec, Ines (Sandra Hüller), and her practical joker of a father, Winfried (Peter Simonischek), who — disguised as a false - toothed life coach named Toni Erdmann — attempts a desperate intervention to save her soul.

The first of his collaborations with director Denis Villeneuve, a foreign artist also trying to make a great impression with his first studio project, «Prisoners» had Jóhannsson apply his stark, solemn inclinations to the painful story of a father (Hugh Jackman) who is incredibly desperate to find his missing daughter.

John Cusack («1408,» «The Martian Child») is the divorced father of two who is desperate to escort his family to safety.

That Girl in Yellow Boots (Unrated) Mumbai thriller about a desperate woman (Kalki Koechlin) who takes a job at a seedy massage parlor in order to find the father she's never known only to end up trapped inside the city's seamy underworld.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

With a husband who proves elusive and often absent, a punishing father, and a faith in God damaged beyond repair, Irma appears trapped in an untenable and desperate situation.

Kevin Kline, basically a screw - up who is desperate to get his father's approval, decides to sell advertisement spots in numerous areas of the zoo, including on animals.

The game, which was developed in partnership with filmmaker Josef Fares, tells the tale of two sons who are desperate to find a cure for their dying father.

Schein is an award - winning, puzzle platformer that tells the story of a father who enters a mystical swamp in desperate search of his son.

Schein PC Games Free Download: Schein is an award - winning, puzzle platformer that tells the story of a father who enters a mystical swamp in desperate search of his son..