Sentences with phrase «film about a mother»

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

The Second Mother Director: Anna Muylaert Running time: 112 minutes Certificate: Brazil - set film about a mother who leaves her daughter behind to work as a nanny for a rich family.

Overall, Snatched is a fun film about a mother / daughter vacation that goes terribly awry.

Lenny Abrahamson's film about a mother and son locked in a single room by their captor «Old Nick» has amassed four Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe for its leading actress Brie Larson.

Julianne Moore plays a washed - up actor trying to get the lead role in a film about her mother, a star from the bygone age.

The Juno team (Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody) are behind Tully, a film about mother of three Marlo (Charlize Theron, left) and her night nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis).

-- Carmen Electra — indeed, that Carmen Electra — starred in this 2009 film about a mother's struggle to accept her son's sexuality and boyfriend.

Neil Jordan's sexy and stylish new film about mother and daughter vampires dealing with the pitfalls of eternal life.

Andrea Torrice is an award winning documentary and public television producer in Cincinnati who is currently working on a very personal new film about her mother.

Note: Sonia Gechtoff's daughter Susannah Kelly is a film maker and is creating a series of short films about her mother and her mother's work and process.

The TV set plays Thomas's moving film about her mother, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» offering a back story that gives the initially silly pair of shining Crocs a new emotional heft.

She's also nominated for her contribution to the Documenta 14 exhibition in Athens, including a film about mother - and - daughter artists in self - imposed exile in Guatemala.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

David Roark writes a blog for RELEVANT about two 2010 films that matter, Please Give and Mother and Child.

In the film, Kate's part was just a brief glimpse of a 2013 newspaper article about a mother being fired from her job for breastfeeding.

The other significant thing this film is doing is to keep healthcare providers thinking about the importance of the microbiome so that if and when a c section is necessary for the baby's survival, then they will make every effort possible to allow skin to skin contact and breastfeeding as soon as possible after the birth so that the baby is exposed to the mothers skin flora if nothing else.

Tonight sees a gathering of 150 influencers at the House of Lords, organised by Malaria No More UK to mark UK action and global progress on malaria, shortly after the UK premier of «Mary & Martha», the new film written by Richard Curtis about two mothers who unite to save lives after losing their own sons to malaria.

In the film, Zoe plays a distressed single mother in search of answers about the origin of her son's allergies and sickness.

In a recent interview with InStyle, Union — who is a stepmom to three boys from her husband, Dwayne Wade — opened up about a negative comment she received on the trailer for her new film Breaking In, in which she plays a mother.»

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.

When we first see Kathy Nicolo in the film, she's in bed alone lying to her mother about her husband and her life.

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).

Theron plays Marlo, a suburban New York mother of two young children who is about to give birth to a third at the start of the film.

Right up there with All About My Mother as Almodovar's best film - he seems to get better and better.

In its use of flippant humour to deal with dark subject matter, the film has a similar tone to that of the satirical 1990s Holly Hunter drama, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader - Murdering Mom (based on a similar story about a mother accused of having her daughter's classmate bumped off to improve the daughter's chances of making the cheerleading team).

Beyond Lorraine's remarks about her mother, the film gives very little clue as to how much her predicament is down to Andrea, compared to more general social problems or her own free will and foolishness.

I can't help but worry about her safety and mental state, especially after reading that she had crying bouts while filming mother!

This new film reminds me of «All About My Mother» or «Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown».

I understand that the conflict between Henry and Jane Fonda informs the film's contemporary interpretation, but as it plays today, there needs to be more setup than Chelsea's weeping into her mother's arms about Norman's placidity.

The Second Mother is a subtle and compelling film about social transgression.

Most of the film is about a love story between down and out Andrew and epileptic Sam, who is making her way through life while keeping her disability a secret and trying to connect to someone besides her loving and yet embarrassing mother.

Tiny Furniture (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy about a rudderless, recent college grad (Lena Dunham) with a worthless degree in film appreciation who moves back into her mother's (Laurie Simmons) loft in Soho where she has to settle for an unfulfilling job as a restaurant hostess.

Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is an uncommonly nuanced and intelligent film about the volatile relationships between teenage girls and their mothers, and it begins with a brash, borderline - surreal expression of frustration.

When the film opens, Alma's sexual awakening is already chugging right along, though it's about as tragically amusing as it gets, punctuated by routine calls to a phone sex line and a mother who just doesn't get it.

Many watching the film find in it a redemptive story about a mother's relationship with her child.

At the film's press day, Collider spoke to actress Katee Sackhoff (who plays the mother of the siblings in flashbacks) for this exclusive interview about what attracted her to Oculus, being a fan of director Mike Flanagan's work, how she approached this character, her concerns about having to be intensely physical with the younger actors, and the technical challenges of the show.

Like Ballad of Narayama, they are often essentially musicals: Karumen kokyo ni kaeru (Carmen Comes Home, 1951), Japan's first colour film, had characters break into song and dance and even put on a climactic show in the Hollywood manner; Kinoshita's masterpiece, the experimental melodrama Nihon no higeki (A Japanese Tragedy, 1953), is about a failed singer turned geisha and abused mother.

The man only wants to make movies — but to make a film, in China, about the mother of a man sentenced to death, is an act of courage.

Writer - director Peter Hedges («About a Boy» scribe) carved out the darkly humorous film based on his own mother's death.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

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.

All the Money in the World A first - rate thriller from Ridley Scott, about the Getty kidnapping in 1973, the film is highlighted by terrific performances from Michelle Williams as the victimâ $ ™ s mother and Christopher Plummer (a last - minute re-shot substitution for Kevin Spacey) as the tightwad billionaire, J. Paul Getty.

And while there are a number of strong sequences sprinkled throughout (eg Cole talks to his mother (Toni Collette's Lynn) about her own deceased parent), The Sixth Sense's funereal atmosphere ultimately lessens the impact of the much - vaunted climactic twist and it is, in the end, clear that the film doesn't entirely work as either a drama or a spooky thriller - with the movie's mild success due mostly to Shyamalan's considerable talent and his ongoing ability to wring top - notch work from folks both in front of and behind the camera (ie this is an exceedingly handsome production, undeniably).

I Am Love This is an occasionally intriguing but ultimately flat film, about an Italian industrialist family in transition and an insecure but wealthy wife and mother (Tilda Swinton) who finds herself, in middle age, wanting something more.

My Life as a Dog: Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray Swedish with English Subtitles Before cranking out hit films like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, Swedish director Lasse Holstrom hit the scene big - time with this little indie about a boy who goes on a journey of discovery when he is sent away to give his dying mother some rest.

Both a film about filmmaking and a shrewdly understated character study, Italian writer / director Nanni Morettis Mia Madre focusses on middle - aged director Margherita (Margherita Buy), whose mother (Giulia Lazzarini) lies terminally ill in a Rome hospital.

The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother.

Joan probably remains the most opaque character in the film — The Squid and the Whale is in part about the children's re-discovering of their mother after all — but Linney puts in a heartfelt performance every bit as good as the one we witnessed in You Can Count on Me.

«Spielberg» has the feel of official business, with the man himself happily participating in long conversations about his creative process, while dozens of other sources — his 100 - year - old father, Arnold, and his mother, Leah, who died at 97 in February; his siblings, peers, longtime collaborators, actors, film critics and historians — supply their own observations and asides.