Sentences with phrase «in the dysfunctional family as»

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The movie's family seems to have it all when it comes to money and fame, but as their patriarch, Royal Tenenbaum, attempts to finally make peace with his children (in his own dysfunctional way), we see that the only thing that really matters is love and relationships.

I really wonder how a organization that wields the power to tell us what is deviant or not deals with the internal struggles that even in a family would be classified as dysfunctional at best.

The funny thing was that as I worked hard to try to save the church, I was repeatedly told in a joking manner, «We're just a big dysfunctional family.»

From dysfunctional family... from dysfunctional church... I left... and in my journey I left several times more when I encountered the same old traps.They could no longer ensnare me as they had in the past.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

West Ham has always liked to represent itself as a family club but increasingly it has the look and feel of one of the many dysfunctional families that regularly turn up in Albert Square; at least if you take notice of the angry brigade that dominate social media.

New York's Working Families Party is holding its convention this weekend, and just as it was in 2014 and 2010, the event promises to highlight the party's extraordinarily dysfunctional relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

As we organise events and ceremonies to celebrate them, let us also remember their role in saving dysfunctional families, broken homes and bitter marriages.

If a supervisor is perceived as having favorites, it can have a devastating effect on productivity, akin to sibling rivalry in a dysfunctional family.

«We know that young children are susceptible to numerous adverse factors that they may be exposed to in the home environment — including cigarette smoking, indoor triggers, and even, as this study shows, dysfunctional families and associated domestic violence» said allergist James Sublett, MD, ACAAI president.

-- Found they were too shy to attempt a relationship due to emotional issues from family dysfunctional dynamics — Had physical or mental disabilities that were not diagnosed, or treated, that kept them closed up and to themselves — Buried their themselves in drugs from mental and physical abuse and didn't know what to do when they finally became clean — Where hiding their sexual preferences so did not form any emotional relationships with anyone, except a few friends — Some boomers, even as young teens, found themselves in the position of taking care of a parent, usually a single parent — mother or father

If she dates out she may find personal happiness and family which she deserves, but we still shrink as her offspring will likely not find or want to find mates in a dysfunctional ever dwindling BC.

Robin Williams plays Joel McHale's dad in this dysfunctional family Christmas tale that follows McHale's Boyd Mitchler as he tries to retrieve his son's Christmas presents before sunrise.

However, it does a very good job of showing Kurt as a troubled boy, growing up angry within a dysfunctional family, and the tragedy that evolves from him pretending not to care about being cool while desperately wanting to be loved and failing to deal in a healthy way with any kind of rejection.

Winter's Bone (R for profanity, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the Ozarks, about a spunky 17 year - old's (Jennifer Lawrence) perilous trek through the Ozark Mountains in search of her meth - dealing father who has jumped bail after putting up their house as collateral.

For a film based upon a dysfunctional family's struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant — Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as a modern classic; an absolutely wonderful cinematic release.

For a film based upon a dysfunctional family's struggle across America to enter their daughter into a beauty pageant — Little Miss Sunshine should go down in history as a

As that list might suggest, Steven Spielberg is an obvious influence on Midnight Special, particularly in the emphasis that writer Jeff Nichols puts on the dysfunctional family at the heart of the story.

And it features an endearingly dysfunctional family with Jason Bateman and Tina Fey at its center, both of whom wisecrack aplenty as they keep their wackier clan members in check.

Robespierre's sophomore feature «Landline» also features Slate, as one - fourth of a dysfunctional Italian - Jewish New York family, and once more, there's an occasionally alchemic mix of relationship malaise and bawdy humor (peeing is back, albeit in the shower, as a sign of one couple's intimacy).

Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, ethereal in her role of a teacher having an affair with her young student; Abigail Breslin as a smart, irrepressible offspring of a dysfunctional family in «Little Miss Sunshine» (she has her emotional hooks into everybody); Rinko Kikuchi, as a deaf grieving teenager in «Babel» whose life becomes a target in her world, and Adriana Barraza as the Mexican maid who becomes the victim of a border guard while returning from her son's wedding in «Babel.»

Nevertheless there has been a discernible change in Leigh's work since his last dysfunctional - family opus, Life Is Sweet — a change well described by Australian critic Adrian Martin in a recent letter to me: «I think that as a certain angry anti-Thatcher 80s politics has drained from Leigh's work, he has gravitated to either the bombastic nihilism of Naked (a film I have incredibly mixed feelings about) or the soft - heartedness of Secrets and Lies.»

Then there's Pariah, a gritty, dysfunctional family drama ostensibly inspired by Precious (2009), as it is set in the «hood in New York City and features a comedienne (Kim Wayans) cast against type as a monstrous, child - abusing mother.

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

It's true that Landecker can hardly be considered a neophyte, and just recently played Louie's Mom in the flashback episodes of «Louie,» but «Transparent» gives her her most nuanced central role yet, as ostensibly the most well - balanced of this dysfunctional family, yet also the one who effects, along with her father, the biggest life change of any of them when she leaves her husband for her lesbian college lover.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Angels Crest (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family drama chronicling the blame game played in the wake of the accidental death of a toddler (Ameko Eks Mass Carroll) as his estranged parents (Thomas Dekker and Lily Collins) and members of their tight - knit community try to make sense of the tragedy.

In fact, the movie could be viewed as a kind of dysfunctional family — both genetic family and work family.

In a World... (R for profanity and sexual references) Lake Bell wrote, directed and stars in this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated maleIn a World... (R for profanity and sexual references) Lake Bell wrote, directed and stars in this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated malein this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated malein the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated males.

In the film, the writer of such acclaimed dramas as After the Wedding, In a Better World, Red Road, and Brothers, investigates the knotty and perverse family tree that two troubled, dysfunctional, eccentric brothers living on a remote Danish island belong to.

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of noncorfomist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stil the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Unlike most King works, this is an adventure fantasy epic that is for the most part not set in our real world, yet the premise — a young boy in a dysfunctional family who dreams of a violent fantasy world — is as King as it gets.

But here we have Little Miss Sunshine, which might aptly be described as «dysfunctional family hits the road,» or in other words: National Lampoon's Vacation meets The Squid and the Whale.

Comedic turns by veteran Glynis Johns as the mother in law from hell and Christine Baranski as a judgmental sister in law round out this dysfunctional family.

The human side of the family comes off as dysfunctional, and sometimes unlikable, but we still root for a reunion because we like the animals enough to want them to achieve a happiness in the end, even if it is with petulant doofuses (kidding!).

«The Glass Castle» Release Date: TBD Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson and Max Greenfield Synopsis: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Some of the story gets very dramatic and heavy in the way of the dysfunctional character development which works well on stage as you sit on the edge of your seat watching and hearing these massive family fights.

These films take a subtle approach, burying their ideas in stories that often mix hallmarks of the horror genre with characters belonging to dysfunctional families that function as metaphors for the global mood.

It's the story of a family coming together for Christmas and the conflicts the erupt, but that's as close as this film gets to the familiar comedies of dysfunctional families reluctantly gathering for the holidays and colliding in slapstick scenes.

The four women in «Lovely & Amazing» have been described as a dysfunctional family, but they function better than some, and at least they're out there looking.

Far too often, the dynamics of a dysfunctional family are portrayed as commonplace in the current cinema, yet each domestic unit is composed of different and variable elements.

A girl named Jeannette (Brie Larson) comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

This time he adapts the memoirs of Jeannette Walls, as played by Brie Larson, a woman growing up in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father.

Set in a multicultural school in West Yorkshire, this gritty dramedy explores the lives of students, teacheers, and families alike as they all try to get by in this dysfunctional, wild, wonderful world.

SYNOPSIS (via iMDB): A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

We soon find ourselves in a medieval community (what's past is prologue...), ruled by a dysfunctional family, where water is scarce and prisoners like Max are used as «blood bags» to revive injured warriors.

As he did in Little Odessa, The Yards, and We Own the Night, Gray introduces us to a dysfunctional family and a criminal subculture prone to preying on the weak, going light on narrative twists to focus on the milieu and the interplay between his main characters.

We have many invisible at - risk kids with dysfunctional families in schools in which few teachers can also act as counselors.

Some see Wilkinsburg's plight as evidence of a broken school funding system that shortchanges children from poor families, while others see it as an argument for investing in charter schools instead of trying to turn around dysfunctional school systems.

As the novel opens at their elaborately staged — not to say excessive — wedding in Pittsburgh, we see them already closing ranks against their dysfunctional extended families.

At the workshop, Levinson recounted how, as the youngest of four kids in a dysfunctional family, he was sexually abused and neglected as a child.