Sentences with phrase «fractured family»

She holds a bachelors in Education and founded TEACH through Love as a vehicle to help heal multi-generational cycles of fractured family relationships by providing conscious parents with new tools for communicating with kids.

Ola, a 14 - year old school girl is the focal point of Anna Zameca's intense documentary on fractured family in Poland.

With fractured families comes grandparent visitation.

His sensitive, tormented recollections of fractured family relationships and tension - filled interactions within their ordinary Craftsman - style house and roaming their suburban neighborhood are evocative of a time, a place and an American cultural ethos.

Movies about fractured families are easy to come by at the Sundance Film Festival, so it takes something special to make them stand out.

Unlike many champions of family values who are evasive about their own fractured families, West and Hewlett are frank about the difficulties of raising children.

I think I'm doing the best work of my life right now, but that's just one man's opinion,» crows the self - centered sculptor played by Dustin Hoffman in Noah Baumbach's latest survey of fractured family dynamics amid New York creative types.

Outrageously funny yet firmly grounded in reality, this observant comedy from German director Maren Ade (Everyone Else) explores fractured family bonds through the story of a workaholic corporate strategist (Sandra Huller) who doesn't have the time to deal with her goofy father (Peter Simonischek), who only wants the two of them to be closer.

So if this data have been known since 2001, why isn't shared parenting the norm for fractured families?

A new Tulane University School of Medicine study finds that the more fractured families are by domestic violence or trauma, the more likely that children will bear the scars down to their DNA.

Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate's follow - up to «Obvious Child» offers a believably fractured family, but never rises above shopworn genre

In strong support, with little to do, are Leavey's fractured family members.

While his loving but fractured family pulls together to prepare Sally for surgery, John takes a second look at the life he left behind.

(In Arabic, Hebrew and English with subtitles) Grace Is Gone (PG - 13 for teen smoking, mature themes and brief profanity) Fractured family drama about a recent widower (John Cusack) who takes his pre-teen daughters (Shelan O'Keefe and Gracie Bednarczyk) on a cross-country trip from Minnesota to a Florida theme park while trying to figure out how to break the news that their soldier mom has perished over in Iraq.

Forget the fictional fractured families with which Brad and Kate contend.

Sure it's not a profound viewing experience, it's a romcom - but it captures certain aspects of modern life, fractured families etc really well.

-- Bob Turnbull [LOVED] Andrey Zvyagintsev's latest work is a visually stunning and emotionally devastating look at a couple whose selfishness rips their already fractured family apart in an unimaginable way.

You make a good point about how our modern - day fractured families resemble classic fairy - tale families.

The rippling effects of war lie at the heart of Amanda Hodgkinson's haunting debut novel, as one fractured family tries to build a new life together while each member struggles to bury memories from the past.

But as Leah is about to discover, her actions have the power to forever fracture her family.

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an attachment - based approach that combines both systemic and experiential interventions to mend broken bonds and heal fractured families.

Rogue One has a strong story, centred on a more concise tale of fractured family.

You can not have a society like America's: multiethnic, with fractured families, dog eat dog, win or lose, limited healthcare, and a history of violence — and then let people buy guns easily.

The parallel adventures of Aiden and his daughter Lily convey themes of the importance of loved ones as they set out to reunite their own fractured family.

We are a generation distracted by the sounds coming from our pockets — and we're paying for it with sleep deprivation, increased stress levels, and fractured family relationships.

A work from one of Britain's most loved authors finds itself in the hands of American indie auteur Wes Anderson, best known for his arch and perfectionist takes on eccentric schemers and fractured family dynamics.

It's also a touching look at growing up that managed to plant thematic seeds that would end up blossoming in future Baumbach endeavors (delayed maturity, creative stasis, the tenuousness of friendship and fractured family bonds).

Inside a fractured family fable.

Today the Einsteins are a fractured family.

After falling into a reckless affair with a cocky guy from her college days (Wittrock, all teeth and bad - boy charm), an anguished Dana temporarily moves back in with her unhappily married middle - age parents and younger sister, Ali (Quinn, who uncannily resembles Slate), to hide out from her other half, who knows nothing about her transgressions, and to recalibrate her life in the sagging bosom of her fractured family.

The Fighter is the inspirational, true story of these two brothers who, against all the odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family, redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard - luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.

The story of this fractured family has a ring of authenticity, but lacks the hands of an artist to shape it into something more profound and affecting.

So Aidan is left scrambling for educational options while sacrificing his own career and trying to bring his fractured family — including his nerdy brother (Josh Gad) who lives in a trailer — back together both physically and emotionally before his father's impending death.

Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

Set in a town of low - income and fractured families, «Thumper» is centered around a group of teens that are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer.

The picture, based on the play by Tracy Letts, centers on a fractured family and the crisis that reunites them under the roof of their dysfunctional matriarch (Streep).

For Farhadi, it's less a chance to flex his Agatha Christie muscles (although this is superficially a whodunnit and a who's - got - her) and more the opportunity to turn a fractured family and community inside out.

Created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong (Lee Daniels» The Butler) and with musical supervision by Timbaland, Empire is an appealingly soapy look inside a fractured family - run entertainment conglomerate.

Since we met this fractured family in Daddy's Home, Brad (Will Ferrell) and Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) have managed to figure out how to get along well enough to be in the same room together with their kids and Sara (Linda Cardellini), Brad's wife and Dusty's ex.

As a freak blizzard suddenly engulfs the neighbourhood, all hell begins to breaks loose as beloved Christmas holiday characters take on a monstrous life of their own, reaping havoc to the fractured family's home, forcing them to fight for each other if they hope to survive.

Too melodramatic to be a real thriller, Thierry Klifa's «His Mother's Eyes / Les Yeux de Sa Mère,» (France) about a writer's plan to ingratiate himself into a fractured family, is still intelligent, engrossing and features an easy - on - the - eyes cast, which includes ever - lovely Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Géraldine Pailhas and Jean - Baptiste Lafarge.

The film doesn't sugarcoat the senility that creeps up on Clarence, which Caine plays with a state of confusion and helplessness that can be terrifying, but by the end of the film it becomes a healing kind of mourning and a new start for our fractured family.

Ingmar Bergman plumbs the depths of a fractured family and gives Ingrid Bergman a shocking star role.

This film couldn't really be more timely if it tried, as it traces the length to which a fractured family is willing to go to survive financial turmoil.

Miles Teller («21 & Over») stars as Sutter, a hard - drinking high school senior with a fractured family life and no future plans beyond phoning in a college entrance essay — a composition replete with curse words and a decidedly devil - may - care bent.

Besides, Shelley has an exceptionally good reason to want to not only compete but to reassemble her fractured family.

Throughout, there continues to be a disjointedness with the story, often eager to explain storylines we didn't think hard about (Belle's mother's backstory, The Beast's fractured family) nor really need.

However, the real heart of the story is in the fractured family dynamic, particularly the bond between sisters.