Sentences with phrase «film focuses on a family»

December 21 The Impossible: Set amid one of the worst natural disasters in history, this film focuses on a family's struggle to survive the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

No one in the entire film actually seems related, or has chemistry... and the entirety of the film focuses on a family.

The film focuses on a family living on a farm.

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In response to such forces, Disney shrank its film - productions arm to focus on family - oriented titles — concepts at little risk of dying from loneliness.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Ffamily is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the FamilyFamily.

Focus on the Family, known for its right - of - centre approach on moral issues, called the film a «great opportunity» for Christians «to have conversations with friends and family about matters of eternal significance&rFamily, known for its right - of - centre approach on moral issues, called the film a «great opportunity» for Christians «to have conversations with friends and family about matters of eternal significance&rfamily about matters of eternal significance».

Recently she filmed a pilot for a TV show that's focused on helping overweight families make better food choices.

Ellen's family sends her to a recovery program in a group home for young people, and the remainder of the film's trailer focuses on her recovery.

And both films focus on a young boy who follows his musical dreams at the risk of disappointing his family.

In the second place, if Wilkerson were to concentrate on his family's history, he'd narrow the focus of the film, when what he wants is to stretch it to the horizon.

And in that sense, you wish the film hadn't focused so much attention on Blocker and his subordinates at the expense of the chief and his family.

After the B - thrillers Power 98 (1996) and My Brother's War (1997), Garth focused more exclusively on the last several seasons of 90210 and starting a family with actor - husband Peter Facinelli, whom she met while filming An Unfinished Affair (1996).

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

Two, as the film wore on we focussed far more on Marjane and her relationship problems with friends, family, boys and the world at large.

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

When the film is about the specific individual characters, it's still interesting, but it takes the focus away for a spell on the thematic material, even if it seeks to expose how immoral the propagators of foreclosures - for - profit have to be in order to maintain their businesses in the face of daily suffering for many families in their broken communities.

The film focuses on the sprawling Moochmore family comprised of five daughters, a Sound of Music - obsessed mother Shirley and a mainly absent dad.

For example, Garrel casts his own father and son in his movies; in his lovely Summer Hours, Assayas traces the fortunes of a family at the point of dispersal; and Desplechin focuses relentlessly on family dynamics, from his first film, La vie des morts, up through The Sentinel, My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (where the collegial circle becomes a second, substitute family), Esther Kahn, Kings and Queen, and now A Christmas Tale.

Based on the true story behind the Perron family's terrifying haunting of their Rhode Island farmhouse in 1971, the film focused on real - life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren's efforts to rid the house of the demonic presence of the witch Bathsheba.

Set after an apocalyptic nightmare in which ugly - ass blind giant insect - y creatures (looking like atomic grasshoppers) have done in most of the planet, Krasinski's film focuses on one family in rural New York who have abandoned their farmhouse to live in the barn where it is easier to control the sounds they make.

Instead of one wealthy family, this film focuses on a group of middle or low - income individuals caught in the crossfire as the sixth annual purge begins.

Jeff Nichols» fourth film continues a streak of smart, idiosyncratic genre tales that focus on family matters.

The film focuses a bit too much on Pitt's family after the inciting incident, as they mostly serve as symbols of what Pitt's fighting for / avoiding with his adventures, but I suppose it hammers home the idea of Pitt's fear of settling down.

Unfortunately, the film focuses on this bland character and her unbelievable relationships with Steve and Ben (plus an extremely sad scene involving a chicken), when centering on the Baker family dynamics or the men's friendship would have been more interesting.

The film focuses on Ines, a photographer who is aiming to finish a project before the birth of her first baby, an undertaking that loops if not obsessively, then emphatically back to her family's pained past.

Directed by Simon Curtis, who previously helmed the tremendous My Week with Marilyn, the new film focuses on an older woman's quest in the 1990s to retrieve a famous painting that once belonged to her family.

If so, that would be an interesting direction for the film that focuses on one of Marvel's most prominent royal families, as well as pave the way for Angela Bassett's Ramonda to have a key role in the film.

One of the things that has made the series so popular has been its focus on family and being a fully diverse cast, making it much different than many of the other bigger films coming out of Hollywood.

In this clip, Friedberg focuses on the architecture, specifically how the film's three homes were «cast» and what the style and architectural era of each of them say about the family who lives in it.

This becomes the film's central focus, but side threads open and continue, such as Ryan's efforts to hit on a barely legal family friend (Regine Nehy) and Uncle Russell's toilet troubles.

Miguel focuses on playing Ernesto's biggest hit, «Remember Me,» which is a recurring theme throughout the film, and he plans to play it at the Dia de Muertos show before his family gets wind of it and smashes his guitar to bits.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

The film focuses on former Mrs. Flora, Jackie Siegel, and her husband, timeshare king David Siegel, as they create the largest single - family home in America — modelled on the palace of Versailles.

10:15 am — TCM — The Man Who Came to Dinner A rare comedic film for Bette Davis, though the film mainly focuses on Monty Woolley as an acerbic newspaper critic forced to take up residence with a midwestern family when he breaks his hip outside their house.

The film is dated to modern eyes, and the struggles each of the men deal with are certainly subdued and edited for family viewing (and therefore, not very realistic), but the simple fact that a film focused on these problems before any other film had done so is something quite extraordinary.

The film focuses specifically on Truman's masterpiece In Cold Blood (1965) and much of the film is set in Holcomb, Kansas where he went with friend Harper Lee to investigate the aftermath of a hideous family murder.

Even as the film's far less effective fantasy characters enter the fray, Reid holds our attention and keeps our focus on the themes of faith, family, and self - worth.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Man Who Came to Dinner A rare comedic film for Bette Davis, though the film mainly focuses on Monty Woolley as an acerbic newspaper critic forced to take up residence with a midwestern family when he breaks his hip outside their house.

Taking elements of the crime genre the film's real focus is on the corrosive nature of a dysfunctional family.

This French film focuses on one winter when sculptor Camille Claudel is removed to an asylum by her family, never to sculpt again.

But at its heart, the film is focused on an alternative family unit, one that just so happens to have two powerful mutant mentors attempting to protect and train a new young recruit.

A series of contrivances sticks the two families together on a joint trip to Africa that places the uninterested parents on an inevitable course to romance, but the film places most of its focus on Lauren and Jim's respective mid-life crises.

The success of this film over the other more recent depressing efforts of the big animation studios could be that it's based on a syndicated comic strip, though I doubt the original had quite the family - oriented focus about it.

Shot in Medan in North Sumatra, the film focuses on Adi's family.

The film focuses as much on the stories of two of those kids as it does on Hsiao - kang and his family, and with them Tsai is at his most conventional (though they do live in the requisitely flooded apartment).

Though she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature, Sweetie, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned - down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil - may - care sister, Sweetie — and on their family's profoundly rotten roots.

The film tries to play the family angle, focusing on the solidarity of the group and the fatherly roles of both Brian and Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson).

As Donald gets drawn into her life, family issues come into focus — in a film that also aims for gangster grit, community awareness and emotional impact, but compromises on everything.

The film focuses on the Cajun Latour family, in particular Alexander Napoleon Ulysses Latour, whose youth and innocence personifies the virgin wetlands, recalling the figures of Nanook and Moana from the earlier films.