Sentences with phrase «film mother starring»

Recipe and photo from 101 Cookbooks The challenge this week: on the theme of movies, try to find a copy of Albert Brooks» film Mother starring Brooks and Debbie Reynolds.

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In excerpts released from the book, Princess Caroline (his older sister) was candid about her relationship with her parents, specifically her mother who was film - star - turned - princess Grace Kelly.

Dynamic mother - daughter duo Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds filmed a documentary called Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

In the trailer, Fisher is preparing to film Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is helping her mother pack and talks about the way aging effects people, in reference to her mother.

Advocacy Few understand just how deeply the compassion that comes with being a donor matters more than the film and TV star and her mother, Nancy Heigl.

Romantic comedy film starring Catherine Zeta - Jones and Justin Bartha is about a housewife and mother who discovers that her husband has been cheating on her.

An Argentine native who spent her formative years exiled to Spain, Cecilia Roth was a regular in Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's early films and a star in Argentina long before she became an international critics» darling as the title character in Almodóvar's Oscar - winner All About My Mother (1999).

Starring real - life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson as an estranged mother and daughter, the film won a number of positive notices, further establishing Rickman as a man of impressive versatility, both in front of and behind the camera.

Gaspar Noé's Climax (detailed below) was the big winner at the Directors» Fortnight, taking home the Art Cinema Award, and Lucia's Grace, directed by Gianni Zanasi and starring Alba Rohrwacher as a single working mother struggling to find balance in her life, won the Europa Cinemas Label Award for the section's best European film.

However, unlike silent star Marsh, Parker's characters usually enjoy a satisfying «worm has turned» moment — one of her first major film roles was as the abused wife in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) A more self - reliant Parker was seen in the 1990 AIDS - related TV movie Longtime Companion, as the supportive «earth mother» to a group of urban homosexual men.

Adapted from a play called A Vampire Story, Byzantium stars Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother - daughter vampire duo who pissed off the wrong vampires a few centuries ago, and those leads both earned praise from multiple critics, as did the film's visuals.

In 2010, he starred in a film called I KILLED MY MOTHER directed by Xavier Dolan and was awarded the Vancouver Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor.

Reprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga («Up In the Air,» TV's «Bates Motel») and Patrick Wilson (the «Insidious» films), star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor will direct and act alongside rising star Elizabeth Olsen in the independent film Liberal Arts, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, the film stars Mackenzie Foy as Clara, who «enters the Fourth Realm to take on a tyrant called Mother Ginger», played by Helen Mirren.

Expect lots of casting updates to follow, with the film still looking for its Colonel Stars, Lieutentant Stripes, Remembering Tommy, Rocket - Man, The All - Seeing Eye, Moon - Bird, The Enforcer, and new villain, Mother Russia.

Against All Odds is an interesting but ultimately flawed remake of the film noir classic Out of the Past (which is paid homage to by casting the star of the original (Greer, The Big Steal) as the mother).

Written by Diablo Cody, Ricki and the Flash is a feel good film about an absentee rock star mother, who returns home to provide support for her daughter in her time of need.

The film stars Radha Mitchell as Rose, a concerned mother desperately seeking a cure for her adopted daughter, Sharon (Jodelle Ferland), whose random fits of sleepwalking include the mention of a place called Silent Hill.

When the film begins they don't even know each other, but before long these two star - crossed lovers have to battle against Dorian's Machiavellian mother, played wickedly by «SCTV» alum Catherine O'Hara, and his loose - screw, murderous brother Angus, played by Jake Busey.

In Hoboken, New Jersey in 1927, 12 - year - old Rose, apparently deaf since birth, runs away to New York in search of her mother, a silent film star.

Little Women — The 1994 film adaptation of this classic novel stars Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, and Claire Danes as sisters living alone with their mother while their father is away fighting in the Civil War.

Nicolas Pesce's debut feature The Eyes Of My Mother views its deeply disturbed heroine through the lens of hardy, immigrant - born midcentury stoicism, and Pesce chose a similarly controlled - yet - disturbing film for our marathon: The Night Of The Hunter, Charles Laughton's classic thriller starring Robert Mitchum as a killer who disguises himself as a preacher.

How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor's second directorial feature Liberal Arts is one of the most buzzed about films of the fest.

The films stars Dee Wallace, who also produced, as a mother who must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger.

But writer - director - star Alice Lowe, who previously co-wrote and acted in Ben Wheatley's 2012 film Sightseers, takes prenatal terror in a new direction with Prevenge, in which an unborn child bids its expectant mother to commit a string of murders.

When Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her friends reluctantly attend a anniversary screening of Camp Bloodbath, the infamous 80s horror film that starred Max's late mother (Malin Akerman), they are mysteriously sucked into the silver screen.

Based on the book Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, the film stars Ellen Page as a Texas teenager named Bliss Cavendar who rebels against her beauty pageant - obsessed mother by joining a female roller derby league.

The film stars Ryan Gosling as a drug smuggler in Bangkok who is forced by his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) to avenge the death of his brother.

Her films have demonstrated her ability to gain intimate access to the people she films — be they rock stars, first ladies, dissidents, teachers or mothers — resulting in keenly observed moments and nuanced narratives.

Benjie is the thirteen - year - old star of massive success film Bad Babysitter and after a troubled summer of drugs, his mother (Olivia Williams) and father, new age therapist to the stars (John Cusack) are seeking to get him back earning.

But according to our Rodrigo Perez when he saw the film at Tribeca last year, it can sit alongside any all - star Hollywood cast, proving to be an «affecting and moving examination of family, mothers, connectedness and the ripple effect of tragic consequences.»

Lawrence is Katniss Everdeen, another inexpressive rural heroine from the films» concentration camp Appalachia; the similarities between the characters of her first two star turns has been cited regularly, but the echo of the mother / daughter scenes may have escaped most viewers» notice.

Back in 2003, Dante Tomaselli, sole's cosin, was supposed to begin filming a reboot of Alice, Sweet Alice, with Kathryn Morris cast to star as Catherine, Alice's mother.

The film also stars Allison Janney as Harding's ascerbic mother, LaVona Golden.

The fantastic Narges Rashidi, who gave one of the best performances I saw in three dozen films at Sundance this year, stars as Shideh, a mother left alone with her daughter in a Tehran apartment in 1989, as bombs were falling regularly on the city.

Most recently was the feature film about Harding's life, «I, Tonya,» written by Steven Rogers and starring Margot Robbie as Tonya and Allison Janney as mother LaVona, who won an Oscar ® for Best Supporting Actress in the role.

The stories were thought to be essentially truthful when Asia Argento adapted them and made this film, in which she stars as the boy's drug - abusing, mentally deranged mother.

Written and directed by Mark Noonan, the film stars Aidan Gillen as Will, who is released from prison on compassionate leave to care of his niece Stacey, after the death of her mother.

But the film's star is Liam James, as he struggles with adolescence, but stumbles upon the greatest summer of his life while on a trip with his mother (Collette) and prickish potential step - father (Carell).

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Meanwhile, young Mitsuko (who stars in the toothpaste ad that opens the film, the jingle for which echoes incessantly through the rest of the runtime) comes home to find that her mother has massacred a group of gangsters sent to kill her Yakuza boss father Muto (the familiar Jun Kunimura).

The film stars Michelle Pfeiffer as the titular Kyra, a Brooklyn woman who loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother's income.

While those new additions come in the form of talented veteran stars like Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, Susan Sarandon, and Peter Gallagher, the film's decision to shift the focus away from the relationship of its original three women to their tattered bonds with their even worse mothers results in a disappointingly uneven and scattershot comedy.

The film, which stars Jennifer Lawrence, has already attracted attention after it released a gruesome poster — on Mother's Day, no less — featuring an illustration of Lawrence holding her own bloodied heart in her hands.

In addition to those listed above, the film stars Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Meg's mother Dr. Kate Murray, Michael Peña as Red, and Zach Galifianakis as Happy Medium.

Starring Viola Davis as Lila, a mother who has lost her son in a seemingly accidental drive - by shooting, Lila & Eve is a film that can't quite grasp a perspective and stick to it.

The two had previously starred together as mother and daughter in Stewart's first big film, David Fincher's Panic Room (2002).

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

The film stars Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio («Blood Diamond,» «The Aviator,» «The Departed»), Oscar winner Russell Crowe («Gladiator,» «A Beautiful Mind»), Mark Strong («Stardust»), Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani («M for Mother»), Oscar Isaac («The Nativity Story») and Simon McBurney («The Golden Compass»).