Sentences with phrase «earlier family drama»

Chomko captures the energy of family friction with painfully realistic attention to character; Producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa challenge the bar raised by their own earlier family drama, Little Miss Sunshine.

As expected from a Ridley Scott - directed sword / sandals epic based on the story of Moses leading 600,000 slaves out of Egypt, the trailer and footage teased killer action sequences and battle scenes, a cast of thousands which includes Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingley, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Paul, John Turturro and some of history's earliest family drama between Moses and Rhamses (Edgerton).

Not exact matches

Shoplifters is a return to the family - centered drama of those earlier films after a dip into genre with The Third Murder.

In place of the voyages of the Beagle and that bizarre menagerie on the Galapagos Isles, we get a sodden family drama, set in early Victorian England, focusing on guilt over a lost child and an exaggerated moral struggle between a sickly husband who chooses reason over religion and a prim wife who prefers faith to fact.

Early on, this based - on - real - events drama sets its course on two narrative paths: one that follows King (Helen Hunt) and her team during their nearly two - decade quest to find that cancer - related genetic link, and another that follows Annie Parker (Samantha Morton), a Toronto wife and mother whose family is shattered brutally and repeatedly by the disease.

Early on, the film seems to be shaping up as a moderately absorbing drama about a close - knit family coping in adversity.

For some Anglo - Saxon spectators who only discovered Assayas with Irma Vep (1996), a worn - out cliché reigns supreme — that there would be «two Olivier Assayas»: one exquisitely crafting intimate family or relationship dramas, such as Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September, 1998) or L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours, 2008); and one coining genre fictions sweeping several countries and dealing head - on with globalisation: demonlover (2002) or Boarding Gate (2007).

Language: English Genre: Crime / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Francis Ford Coppola Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall Plot: The sequel to «The Godfather,» we are taken back to the begining of the Corleone family, and how it all began back in the early 1900's.

The English - language drama is set in Florence in the early 15th century, where Cosimo de» Medici (Madden) finds himself at the helm of his supremely wealthy family, when his father, Giovanni (Hoffman), dies suddenly.

What turns this fairly ordinary - sounding family drama into something on the edge of epic is its use of landscape and setting — the desert Southwest, California's San Fernando Valley (also the setting for Wenders's 1997 The End of Violence), and the concrete canyons of Houston — reinforced by the stunning cinematography of regular early collaborator Robby Müller and a plangent slide - guitar score by Ry Cooder (with whom Wenders would later make the Oscar - nominated documentary Buena Vista Social Club).

Few have crafted stronger drama out of family conflict than A Separation director Asghar Farhadi, who apparently developed his gift for plumbing the crevices of middle - class Iranian life as early as 2006.

Scott's early montages explaining Getty's accumulation of wealth and power (thanks to Saudi oil, among other things), intercut with the present - day (1973) kidnapping and family drama, give the first half of the film an energy that promises great rewards, a promise thereafter unfulfilled.

Over the last few years, though, Hollywood has started breaking from its annual tradition of dumping their stragglers in the winter graveyard and saving their best films for the warmer months, and while 2011's early film slate still contains its share of obvious duds, the studios have seen fit to bring us plenty of movies worth getting excited about, from animated and / or family - friendly fare to comedies, dramas, and action.

Like that earlier film, «Loveless» is a shatteringly bleak family drama that expands into a corrosive critique of its country's social, political and spiritual ills.

The family favorite, hit drama series will stream in its entirety in early 2018 on Hulu.

The Savages are a family, made up of freelance writer Wendy Savage (Laura Linney), drama professor Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and their father Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), showing early but rapidly -LSB-...]

In her earlier works, she has dealt with the unsettling human dramas at the centre of personal relationships — teenage sexuality, family relations, mental disintegration and death.

An exemplary British period drama, Downton Abbey is an examination of the politics and personal lives of an aristocratic British family in the early 20th century.