Sentences with phrase «eccentric family when»

The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down - and - out «forgotten man» as their butler.

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Some information from previous generations may be vague or not formally diagnosed (for example, in the early 1900's a person might have been said to have a «mental breakdown» - which resulted in them being temporarily treated in a psychiatric hospital, given shock treatments and released; or maybe you had a «eccentric uncle» that lived by himself in a cabin away from society and only very rarely socialized with family, and spoke of conspiracy theories when he did talk.

Even when I wore it, my friends and family didn't understand why I was sporting such an eccentric pack but soon fell for its original charm.

When big - city speculators cheat him out of his farm, old - time, eccentric Virginian Nathaniel Banks leaves his family and makes a new home in a cave on the creek, inspiring a community - wide rebellion as he eventually forces his way back home.

Cameo appearances drop at regular intervals, evoking the same dread surges as when an eccentric uncle overdoes it on the Schnapps during Christmas lunch and / or a family wake.

Dark Shadows was largely dismissed is a frivolous exercise in style and Burton excess when it was released but at heart it's another Burton family of eccentrics that finds itself when it embraces its difference, thanks to the arrival of Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp, once again committed to the Burton vision).

An eccentric family's Thanksgiving get - together threatens to unravel when an estranged daughter makes a surprise visit home for the first time in 15 years.

All that begins to change when the family receives a visit from an eccentric, long - lost relative from Italy, Uncle Nino, played by veteran character actor Pierrino Mascarino.

Nidali mixes humor with a sharp, loving portrait of an eccentric middle - class family, and this perspective keeps her buoyant through the hardships she encounters: the humiliation of going through a checkpoint on a visit to her father's home in the West Bank; the fights with her father, who wants her to become a famous professor and stay away from boys; the end of her childhood as Iraq invades Kuwait on her thirteenth birthday; and the scare she gives her family when she runs away from home.

When 13 - year - old Saffron discovers that she's adopted, she leaves her deliciously eccentric English family behind and sets out to find her roots.

A boy, living quietly with his widowed mother who runs a bed and breakfast, finds himself in a series of often hilarious, occasionally dangerous, scrapes, when a wild and eccentric family moves next door.