Sentences with phrase «life of his teenage son»

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In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

She lives with her husband and three teenage sons in the picturesque mountains of western New Jersey in the United States.

a woman who is grieving the loss of a baby a friend who is surviving throat cancer and learning to eat whole foods again a woman who is separated from her husband and dealing with crippling anxiety a friend who is remembering the death of her teenage son two years ago another blogger who is dealing with chronic pain and reconstructive surgeries after a life - threatening plane crash and severe burns that cover her body

Follows three generations of the same Cuban - American family living in the same house: a newly divorced former military mother, her teenage daughter and tween son, and her old - school mother.

Haha... if i lived closer, we could take each other out for shots... now that my 3 kiddos are out of school and my giant teenage sons are eating me out of house and home and using my car every moment, I'm ready for summer to be over, lol!

In the fall of 2007, we uprooted our lives, our teenaged son, and left life as I always knew it for the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

He was a widower having a teenage son, but was contriving to get married to his actual girlfriend whom he met on one of the free live seeing sites.

And, while his almost villainous rigidity is so well defined, and the glimpse into the lives of Iranian exiles are valuably drawn, the character of his teenage son Esmail (Jonny Ahdout) is not, making his last act of desperation a mere device to provide a climax.

Position Among the Stars (Stand Van De Sterren) / Netherlands (Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich)-- The effects of globalization in Indonesia's rapidly changing society ripple into the life of a poor Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta with her Muslim sons and teenage granddaughter.

Bening will play Dorothea Fields, a mother who's trying her best to raise her teenage son, Jamie and taps the wisdom of two other women in her life, each from a different era of the 20th Century.

A family of three lives in a secluded mansion in the woods and consists of father Paul (Joel Edgerton), mother Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), and teenaged son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.).

With the help of Karen and her rebellious teenage son (Judah Lewis), Davis begins to dismantle his old life to understand what went wrong.

This dramedy sees Ben Stiller star as Brad, a father who embarks on an East Coast college tour with his teenage son and winds up encountering an old friend who makes him feel bad about his life choices, throwing him into a confidence crisis of sorts.

«Mommy» Shot in a rare 1:1 (square) ratio, Xavier Dolan «s mother - son drama reflects through its constrained frame the constricted life of a working - class matriarch (Anne Dorval) as she attempts to keep her violent and emotionally volatile teenage son (Antoine - Olivier Pilon) from being institutionalized again.

Shot along the chilly shores of the Barents Seaww, Leviathan stars Aleksei Serebryakov as Nikolay, a local handyman who lives with his young wife and teenage son in a quaint wooden house by the sea.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

Cinematographers Bárbara Alvarez — «The Second Mother,» «Whisky» C. Mitchell Amundsen — «Ride Along 2,» «Now You See Me» Adam Arkapaw — «Macbeth,» «McFarland, USA» Sergio Armstrong — «No,» «The Maid» Michael Barrett — «Ted 2,» «A Million Ways to Die in the West» Natasha Braier — «The Rover,» «The Milk of Sorrow» Lula Carvalho — «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,» «RoboCop» Caroline Champetier — «Holy Motors,» «Of Gods and Men» Enrique Chediak — «The 5th Wave,» «The Maze Runner» Charlotte Bruus Christensen — «Far from the Madding Crowd,» «The Hunt» Sofian El Fani — «Timbuktu,» «Blue Is the Warmest Color» Mátyás Erdély — «Son of Saul,» «The Quiet Ones» Frank Griebe — «A Hologram for the King,» «Cloud Atlas» Kirsten Johnson * — «CitizenFour,» «This Film Is Not Yet Rated» Judith Kaufmann — «13 Minutes,» «Inbetween Worlds» Jeanne Lapoirie — «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,» «My Little Princess» Hélène Louvart — «The Wonders,» «Pina» Félix Monti — «Our Last Tango,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Peter Pau — «The Forbidden Kingdom,» «Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon» Daniel Pearl — «Friday the 13th,» «Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem» Poon Hang - Sang — «Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,» «Kung Fu Hustle» Gökhan Tiryaki — «Winter Sleep,» «Once upon a Time in Anatolia» Kim White — «Inside Out,» «Toy Story 3» Jo Willems — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Steve Yedlin — «Carrie,» «Looper» Nelson Yu Lik - Wai — «A Simple Life,» «24 City» Haris Zambarloukos — «Cinderella,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» Zhao Fei — «The Sun Also Rises,» «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion&raquof Sorrow» Lula Carvalho — «Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,» «RoboCop» Caroline Champetier — «Holy Motors,» «Of Gods and Men» Enrique Chediak — «The 5th Wave,» «The Maze Runner» Charlotte Bruus Christensen — «Far from the Madding Crowd,» «The Hunt» Sofian El Fani — «Timbuktu,» «Blue Is the Warmest Color» Mátyás Erdély — «Son of Saul,» «The Quiet Ones» Frank Griebe — «A Hologram for the King,» «Cloud Atlas» Kirsten Johnson * — «CitizenFour,» «This Film Is Not Yet Rated» Judith Kaufmann — «13 Minutes,» «Inbetween Worlds» Jeanne Lapoirie — «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,» «My Little Princess» Hélène Louvart — «The Wonders,» «Pina» Félix Monti — «Our Last Tango,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Peter Pau — «The Forbidden Kingdom,» «Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon» Daniel Pearl — «Friday the 13th,» «Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem» Poon Hang - Sang — «Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,» «Kung Fu Hustle» Gökhan Tiryaki — «Winter Sleep,» «Once upon a Time in Anatolia» Kim White — «Inside Out,» «Toy Story 3» Jo Willems — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Steve Yedlin — «Carrie,» «Looper» Nelson Yu Lik - Wai — «A Simple Life,» «24 City» Haris Zambarloukos — «Cinderella,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» Zhao Fei — «The Sun Also Rises,» «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion&raquOf Gods and Men» Enrique Chediak — «The 5th Wave,» «The Maze Runner» Charlotte Bruus Christensen — «Far from the Madding Crowd,» «The Hunt» Sofian El Fani — «Timbuktu,» «Blue Is the Warmest Color» Mátyás Erdély — «Son of Saul,» «The Quiet Ones» Frank Griebe — «A Hologram for the King,» «Cloud Atlas» Kirsten Johnson * — «CitizenFour,» «This Film Is Not Yet Rated» Judith Kaufmann — «13 Minutes,» «Inbetween Worlds» Jeanne Lapoirie — «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,» «My Little Princess» Hélène Louvart — «The Wonders,» «Pina» Félix Monti — «Our Last Tango,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Peter Pau — «The Forbidden Kingdom,» «Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon» Daniel Pearl — «Friday the 13th,» «Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem» Poon Hang - Sang — «Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,» «Kung Fu Hustle» Gökhan Tiryaki — «Winter Sleep,» «Once upon a Time in Anatolia» Kim White — «Inside Out,» «Toy Story 3» Jo Willems — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Steve Yedlin — «Carrie,» «Looper» Nelson Yu Lik - Wai — «A Simple Life,» «24 City» Haris Zambarloukos — «Cinderella,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» Zhao Fei — «The Sun Also Rises,» «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion&raquof Saul,» «The Quiet Ones» Frank Griebe — «A Hologram for the King,» «Cloud Atlas» Kirsten Johnson * — «CitizenFour,» «This Film Is Not Yet Rated» Judith Kaufmann — «13 Minutes,» «Inbetween Worlds» Jeanne Lapoirie — «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,» «My Little Princess» Hélène Louvart — «The Wonders,» «Pina» Félix Monti — «Our Last Tango,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Peter Pau — «The Forbidden Kingdom,» «Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon» Daniel Pearl — «Friday the 13th,» «Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem» Poon Hang - Sang — «Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,» «Kung Fu Hustle» Gökhan Tiryaki — «Winter Sleep,» «Once upon a Time in Anatolia» Kim White — «Inside Out,» «Toy Story 3» Jo Willems — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Steve Yedlin — «Carrie,» «Looper» Nelson Yu Lik - Wai — «A Simple Life,» «24 City» Haris Zambarloukos — «Cinderella,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» Zhao Fei — «The Sun Also Rises,» «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion&raquof Viviane Amsalem,» «My Little Princess» Hélène Louvart — «The Wonders,» «Pina» Félix Monti — «Our Last Tango,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Peter Pau — «The Forbidden Kingdom,» «Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon» Daniel Pearl — «Friday the 13th,» «Aliens vs. Predator — Requiem» Poon Hang - Sang — «Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster,» «Kung Fu Hustle» Gökhan Tiryaki — «Winter Sleep,» «Once upon a Time in Anatolia» Kim White — «Inside Out,» «Toy Story 3» Jo Willems — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Steve Yedlin — «Carrie,» «Looper» Nelson Yu Lik - Wai — «A Simple Life,» «24 City» Haris Zambarloukos — «Cinderella,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» Zhao Fei — «The Sun Also Rises,» «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion&raquof the Grandmaster,» «Kung Fu Hustle» Gökhan Tiryaki — «Winter Sleep,» «Once upon a Time in Anatolia» Kim White — «Inside Out,» «Toy Story 3» Jo Willems — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Steve Yedlin — «Carrie,» «Looper» Nelson Yu Lik - Wai — «A Simple Life,» «24 City» Haris Zambarloukos — «Cinderella,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» Zhao Fei — «The Sun Also Rises,» «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion&raquof the Jade Scorpion»

Set in the summer of 1979, it will tell the story of a woman trying to raise her teenage son while looking for additional guidance from two other women in her life.

His scenes with real - life son Frank, best - known as Harry Potter's teenage Tom Riddle, but also the beneficiary of at least some of his dad's acting genes, are especially warm and touching.

When divorcee Lucy Emerson (a wonderful Dianne Wiest) moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to small town Santa Carla («The Murder Capital of the World» according to some graffiti spray - painted across the not - so - welcoming sign on the community's outskirts) in northern California, with her teenage sons Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), to live with her offbeat old man (Barnard Hughes).

Their simple life of women and working out is put on hold when the teenage son of Vince is dropped off on their doorstep by Priya, one of his old high school flings.

Amid the crumbling houses of American everytown Lost River lives single mom Billy (Christina Hendricks) and her two sons, preadolescent Franky (Landyn Stewart) and teenage Bones (Iain De Caestecker).

Clearly invoking Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan is a fairly clear - eyed look at the State of Things in today's Russia, encapsulated in a bitter dispute between hotheaded mechanic Kolia (Alexei Serebriakov)-- who lives in a house overlooking the coastal town with his young wife, Lilya (Elena Liadova), and teenage son by a previous marriage — and the corrupt local mayor who has obtained legal authorization to appropriate Kolia's land and demolish his home to make way for a vaguely described «communications center» for the town.

Watching a show with my teenage sons is a happy retreat from reality, away from arguments, exams and the friction of daily life

So I couldn't help but cringe with the obvious metaphor opening scene where Hugh Jackman's character (Keller Dover) experiences one of those life - bonding moments with his teenage son Ralph (played by Dylan Minnette).

Adding another layer of complication to the couples» already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen - year - old Julius Jaffe's life.

Life in a campaigning family isn't easy, especially when Kate's values conflict with her father's platform... and when the teenage son of her father's opponent catches her eye.

Pru struggles with her deep love for her teenage son — watching him grow up, learning to let go, while still living with the pain of a loss that happened many years before.

He lives in Florida with a teenage daughter; he has two sons in college, both with goals of being authors or screenwriters.

My cousin, the mother of a teenage son and daughter, lived with an electrified fence around her home, two guard dogs and a gun under her pillow.

There are few life events more terrifying than putting the car keys into the hands of your beloved teenaged son or daughter.

In the fall of 2007, we uprooted our lives, our teenaged son, and left life as I always knew it for the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.

And when dads do talk to their sons about sex, these «talks» usually involve jokes, awkward silence, and a tendency to keep the more serious issues at a distance.2 This is a shame because by a wide margin teenage boys report that their parents are the most influential figures in their lives when it comes to making decisions about sex.3 And a lack of open and honest sexual communication has negative consequences.

Let's say that Mom is trying to uphold standards of caution and safety with her teenage son's social life.

Born in poverty to a teenage mother and an incarcerated father, Michael Tubbs never imagined he would one day be elected mayor of his hometown, or have an award - winning documentary, «True Son,» made about his life.