Sentences with phrase «mother haunted»

Streep brilliantly embodies the grief - stricken, aged Mary, mother of Jesus, as she recounts her unusual life in a tired, world - weary tone that suits a mother haunted by her son's tragic death.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

Strayed endured years of heroin abuse and reckless behavior; when the dissolution of her marriage and the memories of her mother haunting her every move, Strayed made the rash decision to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Coast Trail — on her own and with no experience.

Ultimately both the speaker and her mother haunt the house where they once dwelled, just as the «land plowed by tractors / Is haunted by oaks, by the circling / Protests of sparrows unnested.»

Not exact matches

Beloved functions not as a supernatural but as a frightening natural presence, in her double significance as both the child killed by her mother to spare her a life of slavery and the haunting memory of all blacks who suffered and died under slavery.

The crying may eventually subside, but the residue of rage and hopelessness can haunt the child and influence the relationship with both his mother and father for years to come.

But her ability to mother again after such a devastating and, I can only imagine, haunting experience seems very unique — as well as courageous.

As a new mother, the fear of going back to work haunted me as my maternity leave days grew smaller and smaller.

They neglect to say that putting the county in charge of the child's future comes with a court order terminating their parental rights, a negative that can later come back to haunt the mother and affect her parental rights to other children.

I was afraid of a Birth Mother changing her mind and stalking me, kidnapping «her» child back and haunting me forever.

His crying may eventually subside, but the residue of rage and hopelessness can haunt the child and influence his relationship with both his mother and father for years to come.

It was a provocative enough question that I wanted to explore it and as I started to broaden my internet scope past MDC a few other internet haunts, I found that there were mothers everywhere blogging.

«The succession question is the mother of all problems bedevilling the party and it will continue to haunt the party until its resolved,» said Eldred Masunungure, a political scientist from the University of Zimbabwe.

Burn these places into your brain as bad date spots and never, ever make the mistake of taking a woman to any of these places on a first date: X-rated movies, an overnight trip, your mother's house, any place where there is even a 1 percent chance you will run into your ex, a haunted house, a keg party, a strip club or another country.

We'll I'm a single mother of a beautiful 3 year old little girl I'm very outgoing funny I love to cut up and joke around love spending time with my mom and daughter I do volunteer work on the weekends for the haunted theatre which will open this Friday from 7to 11 I have long red hair big...

A nasty incident with scissors haunts her past and suggests her mother might have cause to exert control; and when she meets Pascal (Johnny Flynn, perfect), an insinuatingly handsome poacher, she cleaves to him as one would a kindred spirit.

Inspired by the frightening true - life tale of a family that moved into a converted funeral home and subsequently fell under supernatural attack, director Peter Cornwell's The Haunting in Connecticut follows the quest of a desperate mother to free her family from the grip of an evil beyond human comprehension.

Nearly every character has a raging conflict within them (Daniels's Abe is perhaps the lone exception) and Johnson fluidly presents these conflicts and resolves them in completely unique and often visually dazzling ways, from both Joes to Blunt's haunted mother to Gagnon's brooding, quixotic boy wonder.

But it is now in decline and its inhabitants — mother, son and daughter — are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life.

A teen who lost her mother befriends friendly ghost Casper while staying at a mean heiress's haunted mansion.

SYNOPSIS: A few years before the haunting of the Lambert family, psychic Elise Rainier is called upon to help a teenage girl try to contact her dead mother.

This is an image which haunts the dreams of the successful author, Delphine de Vigan (Emmanuelle Seigner), who has made a financial killing by memorialising the tragic life of her late mother.

DEN OF GEEK — The mother of almost all ghost stories is coming to Netflix with a TV series adaptation of Shirley Jackson's 1959 horror novel The Haunting of Hill House, which happens to be one of Stephen King's favorite books.

His kindly therapist (Jacki Weaver) is happy that he has the social stake of employment, unlike his mother who, by letting go, became the most cacophonous of the personas that haunt her son.

Returning to settle his mother's affairs, with the help of a family friend named Linda (Geraldine Chaplin), Martin finds that in addition to the turmoil of pain, both raw and repressed, he is haunted by the recollection of Lola, a childhood acquaintance (Salma Hayek plays the adult Lola).

Magnolia Pictures has released a second trailer for the B&W indie horror drama The Eyes of My Mother, timed for release on Halloween because it's a twisted little tease that will haunt you well into the night.

A desperate single mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted, real - life Amityville house to try and use its dark powers to cure her comatose son.

This second instalment — in what will be four films from the phenomenally popular Suzanne Collins book trilogy — finds Katniss, haunted by the ordeal of her inspirational victory in the 74th Hunger Games, back in dystopian, post-Apocalyptic Panem's miserable mining community District 12 with her mother, sister and stoic sweetheart Gale (Liam Hemsworth).

These two paranormal investigators, based on a real - life couple, return here to investigate spirits that are haunting a single mother's home.

In conjunction with our latest Adventures in Moviegoing episode, we're presenting two films by director Rebecca Miller, who transitioned from visual art to filmmaking with her 1995 directorial debut, Angela, a haunting tale of a young girl who retreats into her fantasies to cope with her emotionally volatile mother.

It's pretty much an updated, creepy take on Amityville with a story involving a single mother moving into the haunted house with two daughters and a son with an injury that has left him in a coma.

Again directed by James Wan («Furious 7,» «Saw»), the followup film features returning stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as they come to the aid of a single mother in London whose family is haunted by evil spirits.

It doesn't broadcast those ideas, but folds them into a story that's also a maternal melodrama about a poor white mother (Minnie Driver) and a black daughter (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) who's as talented as she is haunted by her place in the world.

Who: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan and Kurtwood Smith What: A single mother moves her three children into a haunted house, unaware of its bloody history.

Part Baby Jane, part Norma Desmond, part porn star, she languishes in the shadow of her dear departed mother Clarice (Sarah Gadon)- also an actress and, annoyingly for Havana, a fondly remembered one - who Havana claims sexually abused her and whose youthful ghost haunts and taunts her throughout.

Will he win it at a casino, get it from his feisty mother (the underused Jessica Lange), deal with notorious loan shark Frank (images of a shirtless John Goodman will haunt me for days), or just tap out?

As Jack spends more and more time in his childhood home, and with his mother, he is haunted more and more by his past.

Havana is haunted by her dead mother (played by Sarah Gadon), Benjie is haunted by the hospital girl, who's died of cancer.

Roy is too haunted by past demons and his backstory in the religious cult created around his son, one that's only marginally fleshed out through some conversations with Alton's mother, Sarah (Kirsten Dunst), who shows up late in the film and doesn't get nearly enough to do.

Indeed his last film, «Cosmopolis» (his first team - up with star Robert Pattinson who returns here in a pretty amazing ensemble) made it onto the Croisette in 2012 and this one has an even more appealing premise: it's a twisted Hollywood story following two former child stars and their run - ins with drugs, pyromania and a movie star haunted by her dead mother.

Kat (Woodley) is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve (Green), an enigmatic and haunted woman, disappears.

The brief description: A troubled young woman is forced to home and has to deal with an eccentric mother who is laughed at when she says her house is haunted.

The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce, 2016) Distilled black and white essence of the American Gothic planting haunting images and lingering soundscapes deep under my skin.

Collette plays a woman left reeling following the death of her mysterious, difficult mother, and soon her family is being haunted by a seemingly demonic force that shouldn't be trifled with.

But as you say, Alissa, fashion ultimately exists in this film as a way to give us information about Reynolds — about his fastidiousness, about his pride, about the way he's haunted by the memory of his mother — and his relationship with Alma, rather than to tell us anything about fashion.

Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gösta might save her from self - destruction.

More strangely still, Alma doesn't run screaming like she's seen Reynolds» mother's ghost, by whom he's haunted.

«The Uninvited»: Psychological thriller, also on Blu - ray, about a teen, fresh from a mental hospital, haunted by a vision of her late mother prompting her to investigate Mom's unexpected death and Dad's marrying Mom's nurse, who may not be all she seems, shortly after; with Elizabeth Banks, Emily Browning.

Sister Jeanne des Anges (Vanessa Redgrave), the sexually repressed hunchback Mother Superior of the convent becomes infatuated with Grandier, and her striking sexual fantasies haunt her guilty conscious.

But two women are the scissors — three if you include Woodcock's late mother, who haunts him still.