Sentences with phrase «hapless father»

That's some dark place for an unemployed, innumerate, angry and hapless father of two to find himself at just past midlife.

It was in the cucina that she found solace, cooked and captured bittersweet memories of her overpowering mother, hapless father, six older brothers, and younger Siamese twin siblings.

Bradley (Jason Sudeikis) is the hapless father to two daughters who is still reeling from the death of his wife nearly a year earlier.

R.V. follows the same formula of the Vacation movies, complete with hapless father, unsupportive wife, precocious older sister, and mischievous younger brother.

His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons.

Not exact matches

It was there in Manhattan he was born in 1819, at 6 Pearl Street, down by the Battery, while his ambitious, hard - driven father busily bankrupted the family with a hapless importing firm three blocks away.

A blue - collar sitcom that countless viewers could relate to, The King of Queens detailed the life of a hapless postal carrier who shares his Queens, NY home his wife, Carrie (Leah Remini), and her eccentric father, Arthur (Jerry Stiller).

Cannavale (Danny Collins) is wasted in a role that doubles both as the hapless husband to Lang's ex father to the daughter Lang is trying to reconnect more with, and the face of the cops who get involved in the mix of things (and, conveniently, seems to be the first cop on the scene no matter where the action takes place).

Young Rusty Griswold is grown up now, played by Ed Helms in the image of his father: a nice guy, clumsy, hapless, often clueless, but usually well - meaning.

In «Meet the Parents» (2000) and its wildly popular (and wildly inferior) sequel «Meet the Fockers» (2004), he's a psychic punching bag for Robert De Niro; in «Night at the Museum» he plays hapless divorced father Larry Daley, reduced to taking a job as a night guard at the Museum of Natural History, where the wax dummies come to life and terrorize him.

M.V.P.: Among a wondrous cast, including J. Smith Cameron as Lisa's mother, John Gallagher Jr. as her hapless prospective beau, Kieran Culkin as a manipulative, callous rival, Rosemarie De Witt as the prickly, paranoid wife of Mark Ruffalo's character, Stephen Adly Guirgis as a long - suffering cop, Michael Ealy as a smart - as - a-whip attorney and Lonergan himself as Lisa's hen - pecked absentee father, it's the great Allison Janney (also the best thing in «The Help «-RRB- who lingers in a one - scene cameo as the victim of the bus accident which sets the plot in motion.

Every performance was perfect from start to finish, including Paul Reiser as the hapless widowed father.

The narrative canvases loosely depicted his own childhood growing up with an alcoholic mother and hapless salesman father.

Isn't that hapless conclusion about good alternate fathering (nevermind what it follows), itself actually right in line with much that Wade Horn and the fatherhood - exaltation agenda is spouting now as their «step one programs» — unwed biological father «involvement» and rights, male parental responsibility, joint custody, and so forth?