Sentences with phrase «neurotic mothers»

Well, at least it is for alarmist, hand - wringing, nervous - stomach, neurotic mothers like me.

The Year of Learning Dangerously is all about creative, obstreperous Alice and her neurotic mother, which is precisely why I liked it, even as I winced at Cummings» pseudo-anthropology.

Susan Sarandon anchors this funny / romantic story about a neurotic mother who blasts past all boundaries.

Trapped in a ramshackle suburban house with leaking pipes, she's trying to bring up her kids while ex-husband and nightclub entertainer Tony (Edgar Ramirez) lives in the basement and her neurotic mother Terry (Virginia Madsen) permanently occupies one bedroom, where she watches TV soaps 24/7 (Joy's family hell, pictured above).

This includes her Justin Bieber - type brother (Evan Bird), neurotic mother (Olivia Williams, and control freak father, who is basically a white Deepak Chopra (John Cusack).

For anyone not familiar with her work, Harris played George Costanza's neurotic mother in Seinfeld, and pretty much sticks to the same annoying formula in all her roles.

Not exact matches

Fraiberg also reminds us that the «neurotic» reactions to overprotective mothers and fathers can lead to some successful adaptations.

I have even known one wildly neurotic young adult who entered a hospital and had plastic surgery done on his navel so he could remove the last vestige of evidence that he ever had a relationship with his mother.

Her mother is described as «very nervous and neurotic — a cold, straight - laced person who didn't like people.»

There is a rich, racist, neurotic prospective adoptive mother and her racist, whoremonger, absent husband.

«Babies won't wait» is wise advice, but some mothers experience the call to create not as an external obligation, a neurotic need to churn out proof of their continued existence, but as an inner imperative.

In one paper, he proposed that mother - smothered neurotics such as Portnoy, the hero of Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint, could be cured of their oedipal disorders by having all the mother cells purged from their brains.

NeuroticMommy started as my Instagram photo - journal of my plant - based recipes and holistic lifestyle that helped me transform from a sad 260 lbs neurotic woman leading an unhealthy and processed - filled life to a healthy and happy mother and certified holistic health coach.

The scene ends with Swinton's mother waking up and leaving her house to find it (and her car) splashed in red paint by her fellow citizens, as her son, possibly stewed in the resentment and frustration of the mother, has grown up to become a neurotic sociopath responsible for murdering his fellow students in a school shooting — which of course is young people splashed in a different kind of red.

Meanwhile in present, Ann continues to regret her past, Nina and Constance fight over which one of them is pathetic like their mother, and Nina tells her boyfriend (Ebon Moss - Bachrach, making the daring decision to not act) she's going to be neurotic for a while.

Locked in neurotic symbiosis with his mother, Konstantin also pines after Nina (Saoirse Ronan), a fair but fickle maiden on loan from another estate.

«Girl Most Likely» — formerly known as «Imogene» — has some good pedigree, with Annette Bening co-starring as a reluctantly supportive mother to her neurotic daughter, in the film directed by «American Splendor» helmers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.

So as one might imagine, Safe House does not see D.W., doing neurotic Woody Allen-esque monologues to camera, confessing his love to Katherine Heigl from a hot air balloon, nor does it see him learn deeply, poignant life lessons while caring for his estranged, infirmed mother.

Vera Farmiga and Christopher Plummer stand out as a neurotic, animal - rescuing single mother and her laid - back, ne'er - do - well father, an 85 - year old who enlists grandson Henry (Lewis MacDougall) to help sell marijuana under her nose.

Lisa, whose mother, Joan (J. Smith - Cameron, who in real life is married to the director) is a New York actress currently enjoying favorable reviews for a stage performance, is as neurotic as her daughter, though in a more modulated way.

Next, Andrew Napier's short film, Grandma's Not a Toaster, where a whiskey - guzzling mother - to - be aims to enlist her neurotic brother in attempt to thieve from their ailing grandmother's fortune.

criticized the Italian courts» failure to consider: (a) the risk that the child's separation from his mother might leave him with neurotic problems or an illness, (b) the father's failure to visit his son in Latvia since 2006 or (c) whether the father's home was suitable for a young child.

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.

Each film illuminates at least one of the qualities of a mad, presumptuous woman lawyer: she is neurotic, ambitious, or a bad mother, or perhaps all three.

As such, our focus is on these three prevalent examples of women lawyers» failings — «she is neurotic», «too ambitious», or a «bad mother.»