Sentences with phrase «movies about dads»

Fans will notice the recurring theme in these movies about dads and their daughters.

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Me and Hungry Hubby have the mental age of about 8 so we'd be there with you and your dad in the movies too lol.

Many BabyCenter en Español moms and dads found names in telenovelas, TV shows, or movies about organized crime or horror — although they tended to choose the names of celebrities who battled the villains in these stories or fought for a more just world.

Some dads are all about movies.

It was February half term and the rain was thudding against the front room window, I was whinging to my dad about how bored I was and my dad searched on Teletext for what was on the television that day then he said «watch this movie, I bet this girl wishes she was bored».

:) im Dave 38 from north jersey, im a single dad, musician singer in a rock band, been singing since i was about 12, love concerts football, nascar horror movies,

I'm a 5»10 white lady that weight about 205, I have 4 kids all by same dad, I love just about anything outside, love football and very laid back, I like walk, shopping, dancing, movies..»

Somehow that moment says everything we need to know about his negligent upbringing, though Haigh weaves in other clues: Charley's home is a sty, messier than the stables where the horses sleep, and the only fatherly advice his dad has to offer is, «All the best women have been waitresses at one point,» even if the movie bears out that observation.

Here's how I saw Erik's motivations: He knew about Wakanda from talking with his dad, Prince N'Jobu (it's N'Jobu's voice narrating Wakanda's creation myth to the young Erik at the start of the movie).

Ever since my dad first told me about this movie, and fond memories he had of seeing it when it came out (and wanting to see it again), I too became very interested and determined to see it.

Billed as a «dark and hilarious twist on the classic Oedipal theme,» the movie is about an 11 - year - old boy with an «inappropriate obsession» with his mom who comes up with a scheme to try to kill his abusive dad so he can get more attention from his mom.

He joins Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst and Michael Shannon in the movie about «a father and son who go on the run after the dad learns his 8 year - old child possesses special powers.»

Depardieu's performance in Jacques Attali's «The Gates of Heaven» won bravos, but a lot of people walked out, finding the play — about love, death, power and Francois Mitterrand — too long and even a bit boring... President Clinton, whose childhood was troubled by alcohol - fueled abuse, asked Lions Gate for a print of «Affliction,» the acclaimed Nick Nolte movie about a man coping with the results of early years spent with an abusive, alcoholic dad.

While the movie's tone never dips too, too deep into abject misery, there are enough moments of solemnity that when a joke about T'Challa's dad sandals pops up, you're not really prepared to laugh quite that hard.

Music really isn't this movie's top priority, and as further evidence, before the band even performs three - quarters of a song in front of a crowd, the screenplay by Ryan Landels has already given us the subplot about the robot, which leads the sisters on a hunt to find some kind of message from Jerrica and Kimber's father to the former (Sorry, Kimber, but only Jerrica gets a posthumous pep talk from dad).

Earlier this year, Nicolas Cage signed on to star in Mom And Dad, a very Nicolas Cage - y movie about a mysterious mass hysteria that compels a mother and father to try and murder their children.

«American Pie» was the first movie that meant something to them because all of their friends were talking about it and their dad was actually in the movie playing a dad, and that was like a big thing to them.»

Befuddled in a toothpaste - stained tie, its hero stumbles through the movie like a 1950s sitcom dad adrift in the 1990s, mumbling about CD - ROM speeds and trying to field his daughter's questions about why her friend has two moms.

It's nearly impossible to ignore the immediate urge to see a movie about Nic Cage desperately wanting to murder his children — I'm pretty sure the audience for a movie like Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad is literally everyone.

You can actually see on Emily Mortimer's face the moment Lizzie realizes the husband hasn't changed, the grandma, played by Mary Riggans, glaring at The Stranger is one of the best parts of the movie, and when he learns about what the dad did you can see the anger on his face [Sis, «Wow.

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.

The mix of hope and anguish in Curtis» voice is something any parent can recognize — and leaves just about any dad who watches this movie sniffling.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Due Date (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Robert Downey, Jr. and Zack Galifianakis co-star in this raunchy road comedy about an uptight dad - to - be who hitches a ride across the country with a wacky slacker in order to make it on time to witness the birth of his baby.

The group also talks about some of the greatest movie and TV dads from yesteryear.

With it, weekend audiences can enjoy quality science fiction, while my friend can finally add to his long list of fatherly accomplishments that a movie was «made about» his dad's journey into deep space.

Initially, the movie looks like a rumination on the creative frustrations of documentarian Pierre (Stanislas Merhar), who's developing a project about the French resistance during WWII with his wife Manon (Clotilde Courau) in the wake of Pierre's resistance fighter dad's recent death.

He's also a great dad, to a teenager (an ebullient Grace Van Patten) about to go off to college as the movie opens.

(The harmless in - jokes about the movie business are the film's most personal element, since the Affleck character's rote estranged - dad role is utterly generic.)

Given what Ryan's said about his dad, about how he conceived of Creed because of his father's declining health, inspired by how they used to watch Rocky movies together, well, look at his face — that's one of the reasons he's so excited.

Like that film and Wes Anderson's «The Royal Tenenbaums,» «The Meyerowitz Stories» is very much about the burden of having a difficult dad, although toward the end I could have sworn the movie also morphed into a screwball remake of «Summer Hours,» Olivier Assayas» wonderful 2009 film about three siblings trying to figure out how to deal with an artistic inheritance.

The last time we heard anything about the movie where Owen Wilson and Ed Helms try to find out who their dad is, it was called Bastards and it was supposed to be released in January.

There are a few docs, a studio horror movie, a hardcore work of exploitation shot in a Thai prison, and even two Sundance darlings about dads and their daughters coming of age together.

Tom Elrod and Josh Spiegel, both cinephiles and dads, talk about watching the same movies dozens of times.

John Mahoney's good as the dad, it's just that this should be a movie about Lloyd, a truly classic character and performance.

One - sentence pitch: «It's a very classic thriller told in a very unconventional way: The classic part is it's about a dad searching for his missing kid and the unconventional part is that the whole movie takes place on his daughter's laptop as the dad breaks into his daughter's computer to look for clues.»

Had Tom Cruise uttered this famous line from the movie Risky Business today rather than in the early 1980s, his suburban teen character most likely would have been talking about his mom's Cayenne rather than his dad's 928.

I've watched Steve McQueen's Le Mans movie with my Dad, and he's told me about racing in the rain and driving from daylight into darkness.

I remember watching the movie Water World with my dad as a kid and thinking about how I wish I could travel the sea and explore ruins, shanty towns on the water, and look for land that might be undiscovered.

Liza Minnelli was also in Rome, shooting a movie with her dad, Vicente Minnelli — his last movie, in fact, which is about the muse of the Futurists, the Marchesa Cassati.

Dad attempts to talk with the children about the situation, then to bribe them with movies, shopping trips, toys.