Sentences with phrase «ersatz family»

There's certainly a pathetic loneliness to ex-Black Ops agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), still taking ersatz family photos with a disposable camera and struggling to direct the attention of his teenaged daughter Kim (25 - year - old Maggie Grace, in a borderline grotesque woman - child performance) away from the rich asshole (Xander Berkeley) now married to his ex-wife (Famke Janssen).

This familiar dramatic contrivance — «Alienated strangers who seem to have nothing in common are forced together on a journey and become a sort of ersatz family» — has been the basis of scores of films, from «The Wizard of Oz» to the 2008 Iraq veteran drama «The Lucky Ones.»

Not exact matches

In fact, if you serve up quality often enough, your family's taste buds (and yours) will soon learn to reject the ersatz flavored, overly sugared items that line the shelves of stores and cafes across America.

In the strange simulacrum of London there in the sewers, he barely has time to get oriented to the ersatz Picadilly Circus before he gets caught up in nasty struggle between plucky Rita (Kate Winslet), a toothsome she - rat with an adventurous taste in accessories, and an evil toad (Ian McKellen), whose adventurous nature includes worshipping the royal family and plotting to wipe out the rat population.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

Now all we will have to look forward to is frenetic computer - generated eye - candy fests full of noise, music, all - too - obvious in - jokes, potty humor, puns, and ersatz messages of family unity.

The moral quandary at the center of the film may not be an original one — Danish commander Claus Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) must go to court over a split - second decision made during a firefight in which his actions saved a comrade while unknowingly leading to a number of civilian casualties — but Lindholm takes seemingly ages to get to that point, allowing the audience to soak in the monotony and incessant - if - buried burden of Pedersen's position: serving as ersatz father for his unit while knowing, intuitively, that his family desperately needs him back home.