Sentences with phrase «eldest son»

All seems to be well among them until eldest son Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) returns home and starts to reveal some of the darker secrets the clan has kept buried for years.

But when their sneering ruler Mehmed II (a hammy Dominic Cooper) comes to demand the eldest son from every family as a hostage, Vlad seeks the help of an ancient vampire who offers him a terrible deal that might just save his people.

We wind up with Maria, a physician who has stopped working to raise the kids, and her eldest son, 12 - year - old Lucas (Tom Holland).

Huppert haunts the film, a ghost in her son's dreams, a happy but fading memory to her husband, an enigma unraveling in her eldest son's eyes as he scours the data files of her digital SLR, in advance of a retrospective of her work.

Like their white neighbors, they too send a child off to war: their eldest son Ronsel (Jason Mitchell), who later becomes an army sergeant and indulges his sexual appetites with a white German lover.

Employing multiple third - person narrators, obscured quotations, and playful shifts in time, Trier (Oslo, August 31st) navigates lives in stasis: eldest son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), a sociology professor who doesn't want to go back home to his wife and baby; dad Gene (Gabriel Byrne), stalling before a retrospective show dedicated to his late wife, Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), an acclaimed war photographer; and youngest son Conrad (Devin Druid), 15, living mostly in his own head, still unaware of the circumstances of his mom's death.

Louder Than Bombs follows a father (Gabriel Byrne) and his eldest son...

Jaws 3 sees the sons of Sheriff Brody (from the first two films) now in Florida (apparently afflicted with accelerated aging), as eldest son Mike (Quaid, Breaking Away) has laid the foundations for a two - year project to bring an underwater structure in the lagoon at Sea World to life.

In a brilliant moment, their eldest son, wastoid Scooby (Mark Webber), offers: «So, what you're saying is that if it wasn't for Hitler, I wouldn't have been born.»

Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), meanwhile, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm, comes home from war a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen...

Separately, the Jacksons» eldest son Ronsel (Jason Mitchell) also takes up arms, joining a tank battalion.

Eldest son Aaron (Rock, who's also one of the producers) just wants a dignified ceremony, but signals trouble early when he looks inside the coffin and finds that the perfectly embalmed, peaceful - looking man lying there is not his father.

The first half focuses mainly on Maria and her eldest son trying to get medical attention for a fairly gruesome injury.

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.

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).

Director: Adam Wingard Cast: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Lance Reddick, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser, Tabatha Shaun Plot: A family are devastated over the death of the eldest son in Afghanstan, when the son's best friend, a handsome, smooth - talking, compassionate soldier (Stevens) turns up to comfort them.

Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor both deliver some of the best work of their careers as the two parents stuck in a difficult situation, while newcomer Tom Holland announces himself to the world with a star - making turn as the couple's eldest son.

Aside from the pratfalls and the dismemberment, there's a surprisingly tender romance between Binoche's gender - swapping offspring Billie (played a by a striking newcomer named Raph) and the eldest son Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville), but that strand of the film ultimately takes a jarringly brutal detour too.

With her husband at death's door, Floyd takes over the family business, frustrating her eldest son, «Dodd Gerhardt» (Jeffrey Donovan).

It is, in fact, the eldest son, Louis (a great David Oyelowo)-- a rebel who refuses to accept his father's acquiescence to white power and becomes a Freedom Rider and, later, a Black Panther — who drives the story forward through his battles against racism and subsequent tension with Cecil.

Per his wishes, his funeral is to be held at the large house he shared with his eldest son, Aaron Barnes (Chris Rock).

When, early in the piece, eldest son of the Friedman clan David addresses the camera directly in what he warns is a personal journal, Capturing the Friedmans subverts the exploitive voyeurism that defines cinema, particularly pornographic cinema, in a way that is as cannily, uniquely, ironically filmic as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.

Anthony (Dylan Minnette), the eldest son, is trying to please a perfectionist girlfriend (Bella Thorne), and Alexander's birthday is also the day Anthony might finally get his driver's license and drive his girlfriend to prom.

The Jacksons» eldest son, Ronsel (Straight Outta Compton's Jason Mitchell, outstanding), is headed for combat with the 761st Tank Battalion, a real - life unit composed primarily of African - American soldiers, who by federal law were forbidden to serve alongside white troops.

No one is a better example of this than the Jacksons» eldest son, Ronsell, who departs to fight for his country in World War II and returns to find that it doesn't matter what he did as long as the color of his skin hasn't changed.

The eldest son, Wilson, plans a detailed itinerary traveling on an Indian train - the Darjeeling Limited - designed to encourage a reconnection amongst the siblings.Hide

Fassbender is Chad Cutler, the eldest son looking for a way out.

The other half of the movie involves Cecil's home life, which is reduced to his wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey) turning from a life of heavy drinking and carrying on an affair with a neighbor (Terrence Howard) to becoming a better person, and a contrived series of subplots involving his eldest son Louis (David Oyelowo), who sees his father as weak and wants to fight the good fight for equality.

Abigail Harris (Williams), a well - bred society girl and former water polo champion, had married Gerry's third eldest son, John Paul Getty Jr, in 1964.

Eldest son Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his tightly wound girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker), home for Christmas, who then fails to make an impression.

Santa's eldest son, and next in line to take over the role of Father Christmas, is Steve (Hugh Laurie, House), a muscular man with a beard shaped like a Christmas tree and ambition that will further revolutionise the act of present delivery.

«Sally Field was miscast as Mrs. Lincoln, Joseph Gordon Levitt as Lincoln's eldest son was OK but he really didn't add anything to the story.

Never buy a house with a basement, and while you're at it, avoid old Dutch Colonials in which the previous occupants were murdered by an eldest son possessed by demons.

Josh Wiggins, making his feature - film debut, co-stars as Hollis» eldest son, Jacob, the film's hellion.

There are subplots that drag, such as one about the president's eldest son wanting to enlist in the Union army; in the role, the typically charismatic Gordon - Levitt struggles unsuccessfully to hold the frame opposite Day - Lewis (though the scene in which he follows a bleeding wheelbarrow culminates in the movie's most graphic and striking visual, a rare example of an assertion of image over dialogue).

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War hero or not, Ronsel must leave through a back door after being challenged by Pappy (Jonathan Banks), while the eldest son, Henry (Jason Clarke), follows his father's lead.

When one such guest (an aged - up Tilda Swinton) dies and leaves Gustave a priceless painting in exchange for years of companionship, the woman's eldest son (Adrien Brody) frames him for her murder, forcing Gustave and Zero to go on the run until they can prove his innocence.

The unusually well - defined cast of characters includes a family of thieves living in the mountains in southwest France — a widower and grandfather named Victor (Ivan Desny), his eldest son Ivan (Didier Bezace), Ivan's wife Mireille (Fabienne Babe), and Ivan and Mireille's son Justin (Julien Riviere)-- as well as Ivan's kid brother Alex (Auteuil), who has rebelled against his family by becoming a cop in a Lyons suburb.

Real Name: Emilio Estevez Image: 80s film star turned up - and - coming director Birth Date: May 12, 1962 Best Known For: Being part of the Brat Pack Early Life: Born in New York, Emilio is the eldest son of actor and activist Martin Sheen.

And Joseph Gordon - Levitt can't do much with the role of Lincoln's eldest son, a student itching to enlist in the Union army.

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.

Soon the crops fail, the goats start milking blood, the twins become obsessed with a Billy goat they call Black Phillip, and the eldest son (Harvey Scrimshaw) goes missing one morning, only to return later that night, naked and bloodied, seemingly possessed.

The actor portrays the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic, currently shooting in Petersburg, Virginia.

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.

The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father.

His eldest son, Gabe (Aaron Stanford), works in a restaurant pretty much non-stop in an effort to save up as much money as he can before leaving for Tampa to work on a boat.

Georges and the eldest son, Constant (Nicolas Giraud), intermittently visit the farm on small periods of leave from battle over the years, intensifying the drama and suspense, as the audience doesn't know if it will be their last time visiting or not.

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.

Synopsis: Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.