Sentences with phrase «movie about being a mother»

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In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

That «new mother glow» that you've heard about from family and friends and that you've seen in movies and magazines is nowhere to be found.

FMCA Founder and CEO Sandra Scheinbaum, PhD., spoke with celebrity nutrition and fitness expert J.J. Virgin during an hour - long Facebook Live session about the event that changed Virgin's life forever and inspired her new movie, «You Are Stronger Than You Think,» and book «Miracle Mindset: A Mother, Her Son, and Life's Hardest Lessons.»

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The movie was about mothers love and her struggle to prove her innocence to raise her child outside the prison.

It was not only a movie about a mother's struggle to raise her child in a prison, but it was more then only that.

Have you ever seen a movie where a family loses it's wife / mother and the father is understandably having trouble letting go, the teenager is a complete complete brat about everything because of it, the little girl is almost sickeningly adorable, and they all eventually live happily ever

Room is simply a movie about mother and son trying to adapt to the outside world after years of forced captivity.

From tornadoes and tsunamis to asteroids and volcanoes, there is no shortage of movies about humans fighting Mother Nature to survive.

In the movie version based on Langston Hughes» play, Young Langston (newcomer Jacob Latimore), a Baltimore teen who narrates his biography in rhymed couplets, but whose mother (Oscar winning actress Jennifer Hudson) is about to lose their home.

In no ways does it try to proselyte to the unbeliever — the movie is merely a comedy about coming to appreciate the important role of a mother (whether religious or not) in a world where parenting isn't always easy or appreciated.

A movie about the splendidness of a rebellious teenager becomes a movie about what it's like for her mother, and what she's going through, too, and what she's worried about, and what her marriage has been like.

The man only wants to make movies — but to make a film, in China, about the mother of a man sentenced to death, is an act of courage.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

And while there are a number of strong sequences sprinkled throughout (eg Cole talks to his mother (Toni Collette's Lynn) about her own deceased parent), The Sixth Sense's funereal atmosphere ultimately lessens the impact of the much - vaunted climactic twist and it is, in the end, clear that the film doesn't entirely work as either a drama or a spooky thriller - with the movie's mild success due mostly to Shyamalan's considerable talent and his ongoing ability to wring top - notch work from folks both in front of and behind the camera (ie this is an exceedingly handsome production, undeniably).

DESOLATION is a pared - down, surprisingly character - driven horror movie about a Rob Zombie - looking stalker (Claude Duhamel) who follows a grieving mother, accompanied by her teenage son (Toby Nichols) and her best friend (Alyshia...

But it will also leave you feeling manipulated and more than a little disgusted: Is it any surprise that this movie gets under your skin, when it's about a young mother whose obsession with protecting her newborn could be slowly killing him?

I think we have a lot of examples of father - son movies and I feel there aren't just as many about mothers and daughters.

Bassett is positively resplendent as Black Panther's Queen Mother Ramonda, but if there's one thing to nitpick about her performance in the movie, it's that there just isn't enough of it.

Breaking In (May 11): Gabrielle Union's movie about a woman hell - bent on revenge after her daughter is captured has the summer's best tagline: «Payback is a mother.»

Hollywood is full of movies about pushy and / or overbearing mothers.

To sum up for the impatient folks, this is a movie about a dead kid's attempt, from beyond the grave, to exact revenge on the abusive stepfather of the girl on whom he has a crush, using his grieving mother as the tool of vigilante justice.

Max's climactic and hilarious play about Vietnam — staged at Grover Cleveland with elaborate special effects in the movie's final and longest sequence — is dedicated to his mother and to Rosemary's late husband («the friend of a friend»), pointedly bringing all three together.

While The Guardian «s Amy Nicholson praised the film as «a marvellous movie about a struggling mother saved by a millennial Mary Poppins,» she criticized the film for its flat, on - the - nose third act:

But the Oscars and the public were far more inclined towards the movie about the single dad and the feminist mother who felt suffocated in the confines of her domestic life.

Sohn showed a rough animation he made about his own life, and how animation showed him the power of visual storytelling — as Disney animated movies were the one type of film he didn't need to explain to his Korean mother, who didn't know English.

Even though the trailer says this movie is about motherhood in 2018, this will surely resonate with plenty of parents in general out there, whether they're mothers or fathers.

A deeply wrongheaded fantasy about a Jewish shoe repairman who uses a magical stitching machine to commit manslaughter, creep his way into women's homes, and enact Oedipal scenarios with his dying mother, The Cobbler is a movie that has absolutely no idea what it's doing, but puts real effort into doing it anyway.

Not much else is left so say about The Guilt Trip, other than the fact that this is the perfect movie for a son to see with your mother.

The movie took a few swipes at how underappreciated mothers are, but mostly it was about how guilty they feel for failing, in one way or another, to live up to their own stressed - out standards of maternal enlightenment.

When Gerwig realised she was writing about mothers and daughters, she started thinking about movies that covered a similar theme.

As for the chronological thing, I did it on my first movie because my mother had given me a book about John Cassavetes and in the book it talked about how he shot his films in chronological order so I was like «oh, maybe I'll do that too.»

A woman drops her robe, but we only briefly see her back and shoulders; a man is seen naked on a bed with a pillow covering his private parts (check the movie's trailer if you want to preview this) and a short reference is made about a person being conceived during a cult ceremony (it is vaguely implied that the mother may have been raped).

This movie depicts an altercation between young men after one youth makes crude sexual remarks about another's adoptive mother and sister.

But if we're going to talk about Lady Bird as a gorgeously rendered movie about what it's like to be a teenager, we have to talk about the one character who so perfectly puts Lady Bird herself into context: Laurie Metcalf as her mother, Marion.

Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Carla Garguino and director Brad Payton, were on hand to promote their disaster movie, SAN ANDREAS (May 29) which is about the wrath of mother nature.

What feels borderline revolutionary about the movie is the way it looks at motherhood through the mother, not her relationship with her kids.

The movie, about a boy (Thomas Mann) whose mother (person - we - wish - we - were, Connie Britton) forces him to befriend a former Hebrew school classmate with leukemia (Cooke), may sound like dying - teen schmaltz, but don't dismiss it just yet.

Susan Sarandon is starring in not one but two movies about mothers and daughters this spring.

Videodrone talked to Ms. Sarandon about working with directors Jay and Mark Duplass, her own life as the mother of two sons, and what she's watching when she's not making movies.

Considering the subject matter, it's easy to feel distressed at just how funny this movie about the rape and murder of a young girl, the ostracism of her mother as she seeks justice and revenge, a cop dying of cancer and his powder keg of a racist underling stirring up trouble, but the humor is undeniable.

When word first spread that Roland Emmerich was going to direct a movie called «The Day After Tomorrow,» we were delighted to hear that Allan Folsom's compulsive page - turner about the mother of all Nazi conspiracies was coming to life on the big screen.

Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder from Cornerstone also commented, «Adam Shankman and Kate Beckinsale are perfectly matched to this funny, audacious and profoundly moving story about a dysfunctional mother / daughter relationship that will resonate with buyers across the world looking for a female - driven movie with a big heart.»

Reverend Mother doesn't take kindly to the change, and the movie is just as much about her resistance to the evolving world around her as it is her molding of the young lives in the name of God.

And before anybody gets up in arms about me making a mass generalization that this role is only for Mom, I'm referring specifically to the movie Tully and the physiological imperatives that only mothers like Marlo (an exasperated Charlize Theron) can provide a newborn.

Runners up: Fight Club (David Fincher), Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter), Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson), American Movie (Chris Smith), The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf), Holy Smoke (Jane Campion), Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar), My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese), Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay), Three Kings (David O. Russell), Audition (Takashi Miike), The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)

He hinted to his mother about the Schwinn in every way he knew, and finally pointed it out to her one night when they were walking home from the movies (the show had been The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, which Bobby didn't understand but liked anyway, especially the part where Dorothy McGuire flopped back in a chair and showed off her long legs).

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