Sentences with phrase «most dysfunctional family»

To see Groot and the rest of the galaxy's most dysfunctional family in action, pick up «Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2» in 4K Ultra HD and Blu - ray!

Star Wars has been mostly about the Skywalker family, and these 15 hilarious memes prove they might be the most dysfunctional family in the galaxy!

As with most dysfunctional family movies, there is a dinner table scene... this one occurring after a funeral.

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is an acerbic comedy that proves that even the most dysfunctional families can pull together when they need to.

Tracy Letts adapts his own prize - winning play into a blistering depiction of one of cinema's most dysfunctional families ever.

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.

Reality is that most families are dysfunctional, men love their wives, but they adore their mistresses and too many children suffer physically and psychologically at the hands of abusive / tired / angry / frustrated / unhappy parents.

I can't say for sure if I think being gay is a choice or decided by nature, but it TO ME it seems like most gay people come from a dysfunctional family or didn't fit in with their all american peers and found comfort in the gay culture.

This fact will probably be lost on the preachers, however, because in most cases they also will have come from a dysfunctional family — one in which expression of emotions is discouraged or repressed, usually through compulsive substance abuse.

I learned that most of us grew up in «dysfunctional» families and the way that we parent our children is influenced much more strongly by what we subconsciously learned from our own experiences in childhood, than by what we now consciously learn from books.

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 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.

and so most of my family is in Beijing which sucks cause sometimes all I want is to have the classic dysfunctional large family gathering.

But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional.

What he's (Jonze) ended up with strikes me as one of the most empathic and psychologically acute of all movies about childhood — a «Wizard of Oz» for the dysfunctional - family era.

The most endearing, functional dysfunctional family in all of TV gets off to multiple good starts in the new season of Showtime's The United States of Tara.

Girl Most Likely (PG - 13 for sexuality and profanity) Dysfunctional family comedy about a suicidal, struggling playwright (Kristen Wiig) who moves back to Jersey from Manhattan to live with her gambling - addicted, ex go - go dancer mother (Annette Bening).

Hulk — Halfway between a regular Ang Lee movie (dysfunctional families, lots of slow drama) and a modern comic book movie (the Spider - Man and X-Men movies), most people hated this film.

«One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent Broadway history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest — and absolute worst.

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.

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.

If the incredibly convincing Hoffman is the film's pitiful central character, most of the action actually revolves around the problems of a dysfunctional New Jersey family.

Besides the aforementioned Thompson ties, it fuses Dali surrealism, film noir (Beatty's corrupt mayor is modeled on John Huston's character in «Chinatown»), «Don Quixote» (for Alfred Molina's quixotic armadillo) «Star Wars» and «Apocalypse Now» (for a batty canyon chase set to «Ride of the Valkyries»), Peckinpah's «Ride the High Country» (for the dysfunctional family of mole varmints), and, most notably, Sergio Leone's famously over-the-top Westerns.

The opening section of The Simpsons Movie, the long - awaited big - screen debut of America's most recognizable dysfunctional family (the bright yellow skin probably helps), is a fine reminder of why I loved the show so many years ago.

Director Jonathan Demme (an Oscar winner for Silence of the Lambs) and writer Diablo Cody (an Oscar winner for Juno) inexplicably drop the family drama soon after the dinner scene and we spend most of the second half watching Streep and Rick Springfield play out their dysfunctional relationship onstage.

Peter Hedges, who scored with a similar hit about a dysfunctional family who find unity through a tragedy in Pieces of April continues to generate warmth and laughs by creating three - dimensional characters that, like most families, are annoying but loving at the same time.

Though dysfunctional family dramas are not everyone's cup of tea, and the Westons are a more volatile clan than most who've graced the silver screen, August: Osage County emerges as a very thoughtful, insightful, and well - acted drama that manages to break from the staginess of the play to be quite a good dramatic film on its own.

I asked him what we could do to stitch together the frayed social fabric of the most disadvantaged and dysfunctional families and communities.

I've been a psychologist, professional vocalist, activist, artisan and teacher before becoming a writer, but my most profound lessons have come from learning to cope with my dysfunctional family.

That's surely where most addictions and personality disorders form, and I suspect it correlates with dysfunctional families.

Launching June 2 for PS4, Xbox One and PC, Tekken 7 takes the iconic fighting game franchise to new heights with a slew of new characters, tons of online options and a sweeping story mode about the most dysfunctional video game family ever.

Most of my clients at disinherited.com come from what generally might be described as dysfunctional families that ultimately result in a disinheritance for a number of complex reasons.

My therapeutic effort includes a push for clearer boundaries, increased flexibility in family interactions, practice more empathy toward others in the family, and most importantly to teach modifications of the dysfunctional structure.

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.

Don't create unnecessary contests between the parties: Deciding who is the «better parent» or the «most attached parent» or who is the «most truthful party» and other contests are damaging to family systems, especially dysfunctional family systems.

However, other researchers emphasize the need for home - based, intensive, and long - term interventions for some of the most disturbed and dysfunctional families.4 There is obviously a need for more research to identify what characteristics of attachment - based interventions best meet the needs of specific families.