Sentences with phrase «harrowing ordeal»

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in...

A fascinating account of an unassuming hero's harrowing ordeal during a futile, decade - long effort to bring the truth about Bernie Madoff to light.

It's a welcome change of pace because self - congratulatory violence would undermine this truly harrowing ordeal.

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in order to survive.

Tuzman described his prison time to the New York Times as a harrowing ordeal: The former CEO claims he was abused, raped, and threatened at knifepoint by Colombian authorities.

But, in an interview with Vogue, Serena opens up about the harrowing ordeal she went through after giving birth to Alexis Olympia in September.

Desdemona Dallas Meck, 30, of Brooklyn, testified at a NYC Council hearing about her harrowing ordeal reporting a sex crime to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit in Manhattan.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «Our thoughts are with Washiqur's friends and loved ones throughout this harrowing ordeal.

A retired NYPD detective fatally shot a would - be carjacker after the guy and a pal tried to rob him in Brooklyn early Tuesday, and later tearfully recounted his harrowing ordeal,...

Nearly a year after his harrowing ordeal while hiking, Cohen has regained full function of his leg, though he still wears a black compression stocking.

Spotted off the eastern coast of South Africa, in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area, a humpback whale calf some 4 metres long endured a harrowing ordeal, beset by a group of dusky sharks, each 2 to 3 metres long.

In the aftermath of this harrowing ordeal, he comes to stay in a small Canadian town with Linda, a highly functioning autistic woman whose life has also been touched by tragedy.

When four hijackers takeover an Air France jet en route from Tel Aviv to Paris on June 27, 1976, the 248 passengers aboard are unaware of the harrowing ordeal that awaits them.

Digging into the trenches with four infantrymen stationed in France in the final months of World War I, Pabst illustrates the harrowing ordeals of battle with unprecedented naturalism, as the men are worn away in body and spirit by firefights, shelling, and the disillusion that greets them on the home front.

Since the picture, perhaps a little too convincingly conveys the harrowing ordeal of a desperate female in Gabita's predicament, before watching this movie you still might want to make sure you're in the mood for a feel - bad flick.

Hence, rather than ratcheting up the tension of a harrowing ordeal, the film merely recounts the assorted highs and lows of a poorly - planned camping trip run amuck.

Northup went on to write his biography, which told of this harrowing ordeal and the time apart from his loved ones.

The film follows a sextet of women who go cave exploring only to undergo a harrowing ordeal at the hands of the elements, their own secrets, and the terrifying subterranean creatures they find down there.

Michael Dowse helms the film about a mild - mannered Uber driver (Nanjiani) who picks up a grizzled cop (Bautista) hot on the trail of a brutal killer and is thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he has to keep his wits, his life, and his five - star rating.

Survival romance «The Mountain Between Us» seems straightforward enough — a couple of strangers are bonded forever when they endure a harrowing ordeal after their charter plane crashes on a mountain in Utah.

Throughout the harrowing ordeal, their friendship never wavers, making it their greatest weapon and allowing them to save the lives of the more than 500 passengers on board.

9/11 (R for profanity) Fact - based drama recounting the harrowing ordeal of five strangers trapped inside an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower after the building was struck by a hijacked airliner on the morning of September 11, 2001.

The Revenant (R for profanity, graphic violence, gory images, brief nudity and a rape) Adaptation of Michael Punke's tale of survival, set in Wyoming in 1823, about a frontiersman's (Leonardo DiCaprio) harrowing ordeal after being mauled by a bear and left to die in the wilderness by members of his hunting party.

In 1599, the early days of Tom Hazard's long life, his quasi-immortality results in a charge of witchcraft leveled against both himself and his mother, and he is forced to witness the harrowing ordeal of her trial.

Zavion manages to survive the harrowing ordeal, but he has difficulty dealing with the emotional trauma caused by the storm and the recent death of his mother.

Their resilience and trust despite their harrowing ordeal really moved me.

After Sara's harrowing ordeal, you would think that she would be timid and untrusting, but she is just the opposite.