Sentences with phrase «monstrous mother»

I think a daughter always wants approval no matter how monstrous the mother is.»

The story begins when Moll flees her own birthday party — especially her prissily monstrous mother (Geraldine James)-- and ends up on the beach at sunrise.

• Dumping a baby on the floor as casually as any other thing that a monstrous mother (Mo'Nique) devours and discards — Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire...

Pariah (R for sexuality and profanity) Shades of Precious abound in this coming out drama, set in Brooklyn, about another monstrous mother's (Kim Wayans) mistreatment of her troubled, teenage daughter (Adepero Oduye).

The most monstrous mother is yet to come.

We want to believe that her monstrous mother loved her, just as we want to believe that Tonya knew nothing about the attack.

Building on various interviews with Gillooly, Eckerd, Harding and her apparently monstrous mother LaVona Golden, the narrative is a patchwork quilt of memory, accusations, and reluctant apologies.

Summary: Washington is superb as the paranoid soldier out to seek the truth, as is Streep as the enjoyably monstrous mother whose ambitions for her son supersedes all else.

Mad of eye and teased of hair, Olympias, played with nose - flaring gusto by Angelina Jolie, was the mother of all monstrous mothers, a literal snake charmer whose love for her only son had the stench of incestuous passion and the tedium of the perpetual nag.

Not exact matches

When will we follow the example of Mother Teresa, quietly and tirelessly ministering to those who are suffering, instead of the countless televangelists, screaming holy fire and brimstone from the pulpit while amassing monstrous wealth for themselves and eventually succumbing to the temptations of debauchery that such excess provides?

It concludes with him literally going toward the light and finding himself at the door of a brightly lit family reunion, where his mother (a monstrous woman who once took out a hit on him) and the rest of his departed relatives have gathered to greet him.

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.

In Lady Bird, Gerwig somehow found a new angle on the mother - daughter movie that doesn't shy away from each character's flaws but never makes either of them remotely monstrous.

Once in the house, she is dominated by Alexander's mother (Leopoldine Konstantin), a monstrous Fraulein from hell.

The plot begins with Chris Smith (Emile Hirsch) deep in debt to a local mobster after his monstrous, unseen mother steals two kilos of coke that he was meant to sell.

James Mason gives a fearless performance as Humbert Humbert and Shelley Winters is suitably monstrous as Lolita's mother, while the improvisational skills of Peter Sellers in the role of Clare Quilty were allowed full rein.

An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

You guide 6 - year old boy El Hijo on his quest to find his mother, by escaping a monastery, fighting his way through the desert and avoiding monstrous creatures, and outsmarting horrible gangsters in the saloon of a villain town.

The women lawyers in Laws of Attraction, Michael Clayton and I am Sam are understood to be mad or monstrous because they are neurotic, ambitious, and bad mothers, respectively.

Whilst painting the mother as unloving, stupid, mad, lying, malicious and monstrous, the father portrays himself as good, rational, victimised, but heroic.