Sentences with phrase «elder son robert»

The action quickly shifts to Washington, where Mary Todd Lincoln (Sally Field) still mourns the loss of son Willie and elder son Robert Todd Lincoln (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) longs to join the Union Army.

The trappings of family occupy subplots where his eldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) rages to enlist — his father wants to shield him even as he sacrifices countless unknown sons — and his unstable wife Mary (Sally Field) exhausts him with her headaches and heartbreak, even as she turns a Rottweiler's frown upon her husband's opponents.

At the same time, as Lincoln is cajoling Mary into allowing her eldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) to follow his own path into the military or reminding Robert himself of his father's influence — such that the son ends up assisting Ulysses S. Grant (Jared Harris) and not on a frontline — you see as well the sometimes unsettling intimacy with which he wangles his authority.

It's just a shame that everyone else — a showboating Tommy Lee Jones as progressive Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, Sally Field as Lincoln's hysterical wife Mary, Joseph Gordon - Levitt as their eldest son Robert — seem like they're part of the Lincoln exhibit at Disneyland.

He embraces every moment with his youngest son Tad (Gulliver McGrath) but is almost dismissive of his eldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), who wants to join the Union Army despite his parents» protests.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has told Trump's lawyers that they want to grill the commander - in - chief over a June 2016 meeting between several Russians and his eldest son, son - in - law and then campaign manager.

Though his sons (David, Keith and Robert) followed him into show business, the elder Carradine didn't encourage them.

Lincoln manages to encompass many aspects of the president's last three months: his arguments with his unstable wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field); his determination to keep their eldest son, Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), out of uniform; his grief over the recent death of their 11 - year - old son, Willie, and the thousands of other sons taken by the war; his magnanimous friendships with the former political enemies who joined his cabinet; and of course his assassination (which Spielberg ingeniously represents with a scene from a children's play).

While viewers glimpse The Witch's titular evil early in Robert Eggers» stunning debut feature, it's not until the central family's eldest son gets lost in the woods that we get a full, creeping view.

In 1997 Robert Compton handed over the property to his younger son, Richard, his elder son James having inherited the Invercauld estate near Balmoral in Scotland.