Carla, as an adolescent, lives in
desperate poverty with her younger brother and grandmother in Guatemala after her mother illegally immigrates to the U.S. in order to provide for her family.
Not exact matches
1) Most Americans oppose Obamacare 2) Our President had to lie to get it passed 3) So the Left is here frantically and paradoxically and hypocritically trying couple Religion and State 4) Which confirms just how
desperate our government and their media lapdogs have become 5) When I refuse to define
poverty you'll know I'm a marxist disguised as a «social justice» Christian (yes... we can tell) 6) Now we can get back to the name - calling and church bashing from folks
with a «tolerance» bumper sticker on their car
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.»
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.
With tar sands project, Canada looks like a scientifically illiterate high
poverty desperate country trying to go after the dirtiest forms of energy when it does not have to.