Sentences with phrase «living in a dysfunctional family»

I'm apprehensive that you'll disqualify yourselves on the grounds that you work in a noisy office or live in a dysfunctional family or don't have much interest in that kind of life.

In this study, 36.8 % of high - genetic risk adoptees living in a dysfunctional family environment were found to have developed a schizophrenia - spectrum disorder, compared to only 5.8 % of those in a healthy family environment.

A child who suffers living in a dysfunctional family may try to run away from home and land from the frying pan, into the fire.

Not exact matches

Suburban life is highlighted at its most dysfunctional in this best picture Oscar winner that looks at a father (Kevin Spacey) in a midlife crisis and the drama surrounding the rest of his family.

Former Exec VP of Disney Lee Cockerell shares his life story, how he grew up in a dysfunctional family, and important leadership lessons.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

very hard thing to come to the realization when I was 19 that I had grown up in a dysfunctional family and that it had given me a footprint that I would carry for the rest of my life.

Angelique Cabral spends her days playing Colleen in the comedy Life in Pieces, which follows one big happy (and sometimes dysfunctional family), but at home, she is spending time with her own family....

While ODD can develop in children from loving and stable families, it's not uncommon for these children to have had a dysfunctional home life and / or exposure to violence.

In addition to dysfunctional family relationships, some of the key stress - creating factors in life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the listIn addition to dysfunctional family relationships, some of the key stress - creating factors in life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the listin life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the list).

Many of us default into the unhealthy patterns we observed in our parents, and the «dysfunctional family» may describe many or even most of our early - life experiences.

Cooper is to make a remarkable intervention in the lives of a dysfunctional local family, whose appallingly inadequate paterfamilias is Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), a welder of low ambition and low IQ, acrimoniously divorced from his alcoholic wife, and now living with his dubiously loyal girlfriend Sharla (Gina Gershon), who has the unfortunate habit of answering the door naked from the waist down.

Academy Award ® Winners Meryl Streep * and Julia Roberts ** star in the darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

Fierce People (R for nudity, profanity, sexuality, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama about a coke - addicted single - mom (Diane Lane) struggling to survive in NYC who decides to try to get her life back on track by showing up with her 16 year - old son (Anton Yelchin) at the sprawling, suburban estate of a wealthy, elderly client (Donald Sutherland) of hers.

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a par with pork belly futures.

It sounds puke - awful: a formula farce about a dysfunctional family from New Mexico that hops in a VW bus and heads to California, where seven - year - old Olive (Abigail Breslin) will enter the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant and teach her elders what really matters in life.

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a... Read More»

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.»

The story follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

The third film in director - producer - writer - every other film role you can hyphenate Wes Anderson's repertoire, The Royal Tenenbaums centers on the dysfunctional titular family and their equally off - kilter lives, loves and losses.

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.

ABOUT «AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY» AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

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.

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.

Part of a dysfunctional family, his mother is in jail and he lives with his mother's boyfriend and his grandfather, both rough troublemakers.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comfamily - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comFamily Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

Set on Christmas Day in 1985, the movie centers around a dysfunctional suburban clan, the Cooper family, headed up by Gordon (Jones) and Nancy (Bee, Jones» real - life wife).

It's an entire subgenre unto itself: the indie comedy - drama about a guy in his 30s who goes back to his small town to deal with his wacky, dysfunctional family and learn some important life lessons.

The play is about a dysfunctional Irish family, living in a grotty London flat, who each day enact the same ludicrous farce detailing the supposed circumstances around the father's departure from Ireland.

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.

Our Little Sister (PG for mature themes and brief mild epithets) Dysfunctional family dramedy about three sisters (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa and Kaho) living in their late grandmother's home who invite a half - sibling (Suzu Hirose) they meet at their father's funeral to move in with them.

«August: Osage County» in 2008, which explores the lives of several members of a dysfunctional family, the Westons, who travel to their childhood home headed by patriarch Beverly Weston (Shepard, Out of the Furnace) and his wife Violet (Streep, It's Complicated), who is afflicted with cancer of the mouth (both literally and figuratively) that causes her to seek a variety of prescription medications that, while alleviating the pain, also makes her exceedingly ornery to others.

Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stability.

NAREN is about one thing: Pulling together into a collaborative FORCE to make the difference that society, government, and dysfunctional families have not / cannot / will not make in these children's lives.

Hikari's life and her role in this family were dysfunctional due to the way she was raised and the lack of love or even feeling from Killian that she experienced.

I've not reached the stage yet where I had to recruit beta readers for my own stuff, but I have done quite a bit of beta - reading for friends with shorter works, and recently attempted to beta - read a novel for someone, but real life got in the way (my family is so dysfunctional it's not even funny), and I had to drop it.

Once I left home, learned a bit about my contemporary's family lives, and saw some really dysfunctional mother / daughter relationships I realized I was pretty lucky in the Mom Lottery.

Frequent GalleyChat contributor Cynthia Baskin is an early admirer and says, «This terrific sophomore effort is about two dysfunctional families whose lives intersect and overlap in healthy and not - so - healthy ways.

Richard Billingham, the photographer who has made art out of images of his dysfunctional family, in their tower block home which his alcoholic father Ray rarely lives, is also nominated for his recent startling change of direction to deserted urban streetscapes under blazing blue skies.

The inner - city kids going nowhere from broken and dysfunctional families would learn self - discipline and other values necessary for success in life, breaking the intergenerational cycle of hopelessness, and some of the lefty kids might become a tad bit more patriotic... or at least not so hateful of our military.

«I specialize in relationships, sex therapy, recovery from dysfunctional and abusive families, healing the inner child, loss and grief, stress, life transitions, women's issues, and personal empowerment.

I have worked extensively with adults who have grown up in addictive / abusive / dysfunctional families, as well as adults who are experiencing here - and - now life challenges.

They might identify patterns carried over from childhood that cause problems in their adult lives, especially if one or both partners were raised in dysfunctional families.

The belief that children of divorce could be better off than if they lived in dysfunctional, but intact families, is false for most all kids except those in very high - conflict households where physical separation was the only immediate choice.

Individual therapy to begin to change dysfunctional dynamics, rectify skill deficits, and uncover problematic issues in the family of origin that impair «living life on life's terms»

If one's family of origin was dysfunctional; faced issues such as abuse, substance abuse, poor health, or poverty; did not provide children with real - world skills; or did not adequately demonstrate love, that person may experience difficulties in these areas later in life, especially if they start a family of their own.

we found in each of our lives that codependence is a deeply rooted compulsive behavior born out of our dysfunctional family systems

For over 25 years I've specialized in helping biological, legal guardian, step, foster and adoptive families with difficult or challenging children to understand and transform dysfunctional behaviors, so they may experience joy in their lives and peace in their family relationships.

A small sample of comparison boys with emerging problems also were living in more dysfunctional families and their mothers reported using more negative discipline at age 9 years.