Sentences with phrase «film about a dysfunctional family»
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In 2012, she completed work with Griffin Dunne on Justin Schwartz's film THE DISCOVERS, a human comedy about a dysfunctional family.
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Tamara Jenkins dubs her own hyphenate intelligentsia yawp The Savages, casting Baumbach's Squid mom Laura Linney as Wendy Savage, a temp and frustrated writer submitting as the film opens her grant proposal for a new play about a dysfunctional family to various endowments.
Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»
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.
The film is based on the memoir written by Jeannette Walls about «a young girl who comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads.
Harrelson, Naomi Watts and Brie Larson star in the film — based on the memoirs of Jeannette Walls — about a deeply dysfunctional family who wanders from state to state in order to escape the large debts they have incurred.
Noah Baumbach's new film about dysfunctional New York family also stars Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson
The film is as much about Harding's dysfunctional family life as her achievements on ice.
Leaving aside the fact that none of these folks look like they belong in the same gene pool (and The Wire has a funny article about how only one of the actors in the film is actually Jewish), the premise has promise, since forcing the members of a dysfunctional family (and there is much «dys» here) to spend time in a small space could lead to some funny results.
The film is a comedy about a dysfunctional fake family as much as it is about the importance of caring about those around you — without shoving it down our throats too much.