Sentences with phrase «of a dysfunctional family with»

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It is right for the children of that mother, once they have «escaped» to seek to help their brothers and sisters out of that dysfunctional family, or to teach their siblings how to cope with their mother's abuses.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Would you want to spend time with (or be part of) the dysfunctional family down the street that manages to get into a brawl every day?

A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.

If you came from a dysfunctional family and stopped reading now, you might be tempted to believe that it is impossible to have a genuine relationship with or healthy view of God.

She points out that while an older generation might have been enamoured of sex without consequences, their younger counterparts often associate such an outlook with dysfunctional relationships, broken families and personal unhappiness and by extension see the Christian vision of love as fulfilling and ultimately liberating.

To make the point he quotes Dawkins» own «perceptive» summary of Lot in The God Delusion: «If this dysfunctional family was the best that Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone» (Cheekily adding, «Well, Rabbi Dawkins, I think I'm very happy with that gloss!»)

This article discusses the characteristics of healthy families and dysfunctional families, with lists of particular symptomatic behaviors.

The Percentage of Low Genetic Risk Adoptees with Schizophrenia - spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Functional versus Dysfunctional Families is shown in the bar graph.

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).

The information suggests the protective effect of being reared in a healthy adoptive family, with the risk for these high - genetic - risk adoptees developing schizophrenia in healthy families at 5.8 % compared with 36.8 % for those reared in «dysfunctional» families.

My mother - in - law (MIL hereafter) has narcissistic personality disorder and her husband is in the early stages of coming to terms with his mother's dysfunctional behaviour and its impact on the family.

-- Found they were too shy to attempt a relationship due to emotional issues from family dysfunctional dynamics — Had physical or mental disabilities that were not diagnosed, or treated, that kept them closed up and to themselves — Buried their themselves in drugs from mental and physical abuse and didn't know what to do when they finally became clean — Where hiding their sexual preferences so did not form any emotional relationships with anyone, except a few friends — Some boomers, even as young teens, found themselves in the position of taking care of a parent, usually a single parent — mother or father

Cooper is to make a remarkable intervention in the lives of a dysfunctional local family, whose appallingly inadequate paterfamilias is Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), a welder of low ambition and low IQ, acrimoniously divorced from his alcoholic wife, and now living with his dubiously loyal girlfriend Sharla (Gina Gershon), who has the unfortunate habit of answering the door naked from the waist down.

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.

In the Season 1 premiere, drunken father Frank is of no use to his dysfunctional family; Fiona meets a handsome stranger when her purse is stolen; Lip is shocked to discover his brother Ian is gay and tries to hook him up with a willing neighbor.

Some of those parts include Beat author Neal Cassady in Heart Beat (1980), a homeless bum who helps a dysfunctional rich family in the hit comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), a family man attempting to come to grips with his family's traumatic past while falling in love with his therapist in The Prince of Tides (1991), a midwestern basketball coach in Blue Chips, and a world - weary detective in Mulholland Falls (1996).

However, it does a very good job of showing Kurt as a troubled boy, growing up angry within a dysfunctional family, and the tragedy that evolves from him pretending not to care about being cool while desperately wanting to be loved and failing to deal in a healthy way with any kind of rejection.

The script had already softened Moody's ferocious farewell to his own dysfunctional family, which ends with the revelation that he is Paul, the befuddled son of Ben and Elena Hood, played in the film by Tobey Maguire.

Funny, moving and psychologically complex, «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» is the latest examination by writer - director Noah Baumbach («The Squid and the Whale,» «While We're Young») of the intricate paradoxes of dysfunctional family dynamics, and it ranks with the best.

Subplots such as Fred's troubles with his girlfriend, Willy (Higgins (Evan Almighty) playing Santa's right - hand elf) trying to get together with a lovely fellow helper (Banks, Invincible), Fred's friendship with a precocious African - American orphan (Thompson), and the unendurable dysfunctional family squabbles only add to the feeling that the script by Dan Fogelman (Cars) started with a kernel of inspiration and little knowledge of where to go with it once it is set up.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Funny, moving and psychologically complex, this is writer - director Noah Baumbach's latest foray into the intricate paradoxes of dysfunctional family dynamics, and, starring Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, it ranks with his best.

(In Portuguese with subtitles) Death at a Funeral (R for profanity and drug use) Offbeat British comedy about the relatives of a recently - deceased family patriarch who hope not only to bury the body but also a dark secret about the dysfunctional dearly departed.

The Brothers Solomon (R for sexuality and profanity) Dysfunctional - family comedy about a couple of romantically - challenged brothers (Will Arnett and Will Forte) in search of a woman willing to mate with one of them in order to fulfill their dying father's (Lee Majors) wish for a grandson.

Reuniting with Colin Farrell (who recently said his first reading of the script made him feel ill), the narrative concerns a teenage boy who attempts to usurp the attentions of a «brilliant» surgeon by involving him with his dysfunctional family.

Fierce People (R for nudity, profanity, sexuality, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama about a coke - addicted single - mom (Diane Lane) struggling to survive in NYC who decides to try to get her life back on track by showing up with her 16 year - old son (Anton Yelchin) at the sprawling, suburban estate of a wealthy, elderly client (Donald Sutherland) of hers.

And it features an endearingly dysfunctional family with Jason Bateman and Tina Fey at its center, both of whom wisecrack aplenty as they keep their wackier clan members in check.

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a par with pork belly futures.

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a... Read More»

Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, ethereal in her role of a teacher having an affair with her young student; Abigail Breslin as a smart, irrepressible offspring of a dysfunctional family in «Little Miss Sunshine» (she has her emotional hooks into everybody); Rinko Kikuchi, as a deaf grieving teenager in «Babel» whose life becomes a target in her world, and Adriana Barraza as the Mexican maid who becomes the victim of a border guard while returning from her son's wedding in «Babel.»

The Color Wheel (Unrated) Dysfunctional family comedy about the sibling rivalry which surfaces during a road trip when a just - jilted, young woman (Carlen Altman) enlists the assistance of her obnoxious brother (Alex Ross Perry) to move her belongings after a bad break - up with her college professor boyfriend (Bob Byington).

A dysfunctional family's misadventures in getting their young daughter to a beauty pageant result in an offbeat comedy with reflections on uniting people in the face of adversity.

It's similar to, but not nearly as much of a comedy as that other «Sunshine» movie with an Albuquerque, New Mexico setting, Little Miss Sunshine, with its dysfunctional family anchored by the dryly quirky paternal Alan Arkin (Firewall, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing).

The first half is a portrait of a family that is not dysfunctional, but dealing with very real hassles.

With the awkward pseudo-romance between Coyote (Ethan Embry) and Mallory (Brooklyn Decker) mercifully excised, Grace and Frankie's adult kids now feel like they're part of one big dysfunctional family.

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

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.

While directed with intelligence and visual flair by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this family drama ultimately is undone by the same trait that makes young spelling whizzes insufferable — a continual need to impress with how smart he or she is on subjects such as Jewish mysticism, the meaning of religion and dysfunctional parenting.

But all of the above is about to be derailed due to the deteriorating state of the dysfunctional family he's stuck with.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Drama Chronicles Coming - of - Age of 16 Year - Old inside Dysfunctional Boston Family 16 year - old Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a kid with a lot of promise.

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of noncorfomist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stil the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Part of a dysfunctional family, his mother is in jail and he lives with his mother's boyfriend and his grandfather, both rough troublemakers.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

While the script got them other work, including on Alexander Payne «s «The Descendants,» for which they shared the Oscar with Payne, «The Way Way Back» — a coming - of - age comedy about a young man working at a waterpark to avoid his dysfunctional family — languished in development hell.

A filmmaker of tableau imagery packed with defining detail and quirky humor, he's the Joseph Cornell of American cinema, creating colorful cinematic boxes around stories of dysfunctional families, absent fathers, and characters lost in ambition and obsession and the need for affirmation and parental approval.

(In Korean and English with subtitles) Dans Paris (Unrated) Dysfunctional family dramedy, unfolding around Paris over the course of one very eventful day during the Christmas season, examines the emotions of grieving parents (Guy Marchand and Marie - France Pisier) coming to grips with their daughter «s suicide while trying to cheer - up a depressed son (Romain Duris) and to keep tabs on their other boy (Louis Garrel) who «s frittering away the hours chasing women.

Baumbach has assembled an all - star that includes Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, and Adam Sandler (in one of his best performances in years), to tell the story of a dysfunctional family who has to deal with an emotional crisis.

The human side of the family comes off as dysfunctional, and sometimes unlikable, but we still root for a reunion because we like the animals enough to want them to achieve a happiness in the end, even if it is with petulant doofuses (kidding!).

The Amazing Catfish will connect with all kinds of audiences as it deals with a dysfunctional family, having both funny and sensitive parts.

Back at home for the funeral, he is reunited with his industrious older brother Paul (Corey Stoll, House of Cards), buttoned up married sister Wendy (Tina Fey, 30 Rock) and flaky, self - involved younger brother Philip (Adam Driver, Girls)-- all under the imperious eye of pop psychologist / author mother, Hilary (Jane Fonda), whose new set of boobs only adds to the dysfunctional family's impending group breakdown.