Sentences with phrase «of desperate father»

Toni Erdmann does a remarkable job balancing comedy with sadness, telling the story of a desperate father trying to reconnect with a jobsworth daughter.

Based on a novel of the same name by William P. Young, The Shack tells the story of desperate father Mack Phillip who has an encounter with God after his youngster child, Missy, disappears.

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Diana was the perfect goddess for a religion that didn't want anything to do with the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but was desperate to worship someone or something that would provide a sense of beauty and transcendence.

Her thesis advisor is also the father of her son, and she is desperate to write the kind of thesis that will become a commercially successful book.

In the Old Testament we read of Tamar's desperate evening with her father - in - law Judah, Hosea marrying the prostitute Gomer to prophetically represent Israel's unfaithfulness to God, and Rahab, a prostitute and brothel owner in Jericho, who heroically enabled Joshua's spies to escape.

There are runaway dads, often unconfident in their parenting role, and excluded fathers, desperate to see their children but prevented from doing so because the acrimony of the split makes any court order unenforcable.

Designed by a desperate father of a baby with colic, KidCo's Swingpod, a portable swaddle and baby swing best for 0 - 6 months, is best in terms of portability and versatility.

Single parents struggling with children on their own, grandparents exhausted from trying to hold families together, fathers desperate to maintain contact with kids who've been moved miles away: these make our society an unhappier place and blight the life chances of children.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

Mary tells the story of how her desperate father consulted with a band of gypsies that lived not far from their small town in Wales about what to do to save her life.

Such are the lyrics of Broadway's famous musical Fiddler on the Roof, about Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his desperate attempts to maintain his Jewish traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives.

In this controversial indie drama starring Paul Dano and Brian Cox, a teenaged boy in desperate need of a father figure finds one in a...

Hugh Jackman stars as a desperate father who kidnaps the main suspect (Paul Dano) in the disappearance of his daughter and her best friend.

Synopsis: A desperate Somali father becomes a pirate in order to feed his family, but experience an intense crisis of conscience in this thought - provoking drama.

Her mother and father are desperate to take her back to her home before total destruction ensues, but they also know that they can not rip apart her love for this special little boy, or for a human world that is so full of delights.

(We learn that Duryea never knew his father and is perhaps in desperate need of a father figure who could show him the ropes, like teaching him how to drive.)

Guided by a priest, Father Julian the desperate town leaders decide to hire a group of six gunmen to help clean up the town.

Desperate to find answers, he seeks information from his loving father Mr. Ping (voice of James Hong), a man who has never faltered in his care for, or pride in, his son.

In episode 302, examining the hysteria whipped up by the media and politicians to «save» the traditional family structure, a desperate effort to perpetuate a fraudulent concept of mother, father, two kids, a dog and a picket fence.

They encounter a village of secretive converts, desperate to connect with the fathers, justly fearful they'll be murdered for their beliefs.

was surprised just how good this film is.The humour and pathos of this film is quite moving.There is no - one remotely attractive in the cast, it is full of strange looking redneck Americans living in semi wilderness.Everyone is poverty stricken.The sadness of old age is there, as is the regrets of past memories, and the desperation of the son to heal the wounds of his father's past life.The acting is brilliant even with the bit part actors with the sunburnt aged faces.The fathers grumpy reticence is counters by his truculent wife, who never has a good word for anybody with her vicious put downs, which is at times laugh out loud funny.A funny sad and moving film about the sheer desperate meanderings of life and old age.

WHAT: When a divorced father (Chris Pine) desperate to provide for his two sons learns that the bank is going to foreclose on his family's ranch, he teams up with his ex-con brother (Ben Foster) to pull off a series of robberies at the bank's various branches across Texas.

Self - Medicated (R for sexuality, profanity, and drug abuse) Monty Lapica makes his scriptwriting, directorial and acting debut in this drama about a mother's (Diane Verona) desperate efforts to save her drug - addicted, 17 year - old son whose life has been spiraling out of control since the death of his father.

Consider that even the climactic set - piece involves a monorail system Bruce's father built as a way to ease the financial burden of the city's desperate classes being used by a surrogate father intent on wielding terror as a weapon of mass destruction.

Jason Biggs stars as Guy, an out - of - work expectant father desperate to find a job to support his growing family.

Desperate to keep this tradition alive, the New Founding Fathers of America agree that they must do whatever it takes to get rid of Senator Roan... on Purge night.

Check it out below, along with the poster... Jason Biggs stars as Guy, an out - of - work expectant father desperate to find a job to support his -LSB-...]

The plot of Silent Hill is fairly simple and involves a desperate father's quest for his little girl.

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

When Eli (Rysdahl) begins preaching at his father's old church, he is desperate to open the minds of the fire - and - brimstone congregation.

Soon his faith is truly tested when a desperate plea from the father of a possessed girl (Ashley Bell) brings him face to face with the devil himself.

In their fourth appearance on the big screen, Alvin, Simon and Theodore (voice of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney) hit the road in a desperate attempt to keep their manager / adoptive father Dave (Jason Lee) from replacing them with a wife.

He resents his father's legacy and is desperate to make his own name in the ring, but wants to do so without relying on the fanfare of his bloodline.

In a desperate attempt to escape the oily shadow of his father's fame, Samberg has changed his name — originally «Han Solo» — and become a successful businessman engaged to Leighton Meester.

Left out of the awards season this year is the equally amazing Ewan McGregor who could bring anyone to tears in his turn as the desperate father and husband.

The other story involves a boy, played by Oakes Fegley (of Pete's Dragon), desperate to meet his father who he believes is in New York.

(In French, Arabic, Albanian and English) The Uninvited (PG - 13 for violence, disturbing images, mature themes, profanity, sexuality and teen drinking) Remake of Korean horror flick revolving around the desperate efforts of two sisters (Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel) to warn their father (David Strathairn) about his fiancée's (Elizabeth Banks) sinister agenda after being visited by the ghost of their recently - deceased mother (Maya Massar).

It's way too easy to draw a parallel between bittersweet chocolate and this German director's exquisite new film, Toni Erdmann, a black comedy about a stressed - out corporate exec, Ines (Sandra Hüller), and her practical joker of a father, Winfried (Peter Simonischek), who — disguised as a false - toothed life coach named Toni Erdmann — attempts a desperate intervention to save her soul.

WHY: Robert De Niro may be choosing better scripts these days, but he's not immune to appearing in bad movies, as evidenced in this direct - to - video thriller that plays like a mix between «Speed» and «John Q.» Director Scott Mann and writer Stephen Cyrus Sepher have created an incredibly predictable crime flick that uses just about every cliché in the book, from the desperate father trying to save his child, to the villain with a crisis of conscience.

The film's climactic birthday party, which reliably brings down the house, takes deliberate self - mortification to a truly hilarious extreme, but Ines» desperate behavior in that scene is a fun - house - mirror reflection of the starkly suicidal impulse she casually mentions to her father earlier on.

The first of his collaborations with director Denis Villeneuve, a foreign artist also trying to make a great impression with his first studio project, «Prisoners» had Jóhannsson apply his stark, solemn inclinations to the painful story of a father (Hugh Jackman) who is incredibly desperate to find his missing daughter.

In Toni Erdmann, the German - Austrian movie nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, a desperate and lonely father tries to jolt his careerist daughter out of what he sees as her soul - destroying complacency.

Desperate never to end up like his schmucky father (Paul Reiser, perfectly cast) the kid callously tosses aside his girlfriend (Melissa Benoist) and practices all day and night until his hands bleed — recurring shots of which Chazelle is a bit overly fond.

We are firmly in the same territory as Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone in this story about the disappearance of two little girls and the desperate measures taken by one of the fathers (Hugh Jackman) to discover their whereabouts.

While the movie has plenty of emotional moments, in my opinion it could have been even stronger had it committed more time to either Cecil's long run in The White House or the father - son generational struggles between Cecil and his desperate - for - change son played with fire by David Oyelowo (from Freedom Rider to Black Panther).

John Cusack («1408,» «The Martian Child») is the divorced father of two who is desperate to escort his family to safety.

The film starts off with William H. Macy (Down Periscope, Benny & Joon), desperate for funds now that he has run into financial difficulty, hiring a couple of goons to kidnap his wife and offer for ransom, because he wants to extort money from her rich father to the tune of a million dollars.

Roy (Michael Shannon) is a father desperate to protect his uniquely gifted, eight - year - old son in this genre - defying thriller which proves once again that director Jeff Nichols is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time.

Vera (Vikander) is desperate to go to Oxford but her father (and, quite frankly, most of society) won't have a bar of it.

Unknown to the girl, her desperate father pursues a series of unorthodox and illegal strategies to help her, eventually involving a school administrator, the police chief, and the town's venal vice-mayor.