Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional homes who»

Besides, Justin reasons, there are plenty of people who grow up in horribly dysfunctional homes who turn out straight!

Not exact matches

Here's the thing: For the film's many storytelling flaws and clichés, it may be the best presentation of the confusion, nostalgia and cognitive dissonance that many people who grew up in dysfunctional homes struggle with.

The only families interested in buying a home in a dysfunctional school system are those who do not wish to enroll their kids in that school system.

The story follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Hank's mother is dead, and he's back for the funeral, reuniting briefly with his two brothers, one (Vincent D'Onofrio) who bears a grudge and another (Jeremy Strong) whose childlike mental state means he still lives at home, the innocent ingredient in a dysfunctional domestic stew.

Gun Hill Road (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the South Bronx, about a just - paroled ex-con's (Esai Morales) return home after a three - year stint behind bars to an emotionally - estranged wife (Judy Reyes) who's been unfaithful and a troubled, teenaged son (Harmony Santana) contemplating a sex change operation.

Sitcom follows the going - on in the home of a dysfunctional upper middle - class French family who no longer know how to communicate with one another.

Cyrus (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family comedy about a divorced guy (John C. Reilly) who thinks he's met the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei) until he has to deal with her 21 year - old son (Jonah Hill) still living at home.

Our Little Sister (PG for mature themes and brief mild epithets) Dysfunctional family dramedy about three sisters (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa and Kaho) living in their late grandmother's home who invite a half - sibling (Suzu Hirose) they meet at their father's funeral to move in with them.

«August: Osage County» in 2008, which explores the lives of several members of a dysfunctional family, the Westons, who travel to their childhood home headed by patriarch Beverly Weston (Shepard, Out of the Furnace) and his wife Violet (Streep, It's Complicated), who is afflicted with cancer of the mouth (both literally and figuratively) that causes her to seek a variety of prescription medications that, while alleviating the pain, also makes her exceedingly ornery to others.

The term is most often used to describe kids who have emotional problems that interfere with school performance, come from dysfunctional home environments, have had some problem with the law, and / or have been frequent behavioral challenges in school.

The mentees who participated in the program demonstrated lagging performance in reading, dysfunctional family structures, low socioeconomic status, and a lack of a print - rich home environment, based on the input from the school counselor, social worker, and classroom teacher.

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»

By the second chapter, you've fallen in love with the hilariously dysfunctional Foxman clan, who return to their childhood home on Long Island for seven days to sit shiva for their dead father.

A child who suffers living in a dysfunctional family may try to run away from home and land from the frying pan, into the fire.

Animal rescuers and shelter volunteers are compassionate people who open their hearts and homes to provide a safety - net for animals others may have abandoned and whom our dysfunctional shelters betray even further by killing.

Richard Billingham, the photographer who has made art out of images of his dysfunctional family, in their tower block home which his alcoholic father Ray rarely lives, is also nominated for his recent startling change of direction to deserted urban streetscapes under blazing blue skies.

Gedwill's mindset is common among those who owned homes during the crash, and it's a factor in the still - dysfunctional housing market, according to market analysts.