Sentences with phrase «of fractured family»

Then social science started to study the effects of a fractured family or father absence.

A heartfelt treatment of a difficult subject, Joseph's second novel is a closely observed tale of a fractured family.

It's been more than a decade since Owen Kline starred as a precocious Brooklyn kid in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach's comedic portrait of a fractured family.

His sensitive, tormented recollections of fractured family relationships and tension - filled interactions within their ordinary Craftsman - style house and roaming their suburban neighborhood are evocative of a time, a place and an American cultural ethos.

It tells the story of a fractured family — broken by a mother's death and a father's alcoholic grieving — struggling to rebuild itself as the eldest son, Jacob (a terrific Josh Wiggins) slides into delinquency.

Anyone who saw Dogtooth knows exactly how effectively Yorgos Lanthimos can stage an unsettling set piece, unpeel the decay of a fractured family, and suspend an entire movie from a single steel filament of dread.

Both a refreshingly unpretentious account of a fractured family and a uniquely perceptive take on quarter - life plight, Exit Elena is one of the best films of the year.

Writer / director Josh Boone has attracted a distinguished cast in his debut film, Stuck in Love, an indie dramedy that explores the love lives of a fractured family of four.

Rogue One has a strong story, centred on a more concise tale of fractured family.

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

The screenplay attempts to flesh Tripp out with a Steven Spielberg-esque backstory of a fractured family, but this isn't enough to make up for his shortcomings as the hero.

Ingmar Bergman plumbs the depths of a fractured family and gives Ingrid Bergman a shocking star role.

I think I'm doing the best work of my life right now, but that's just one man's opinion,» crows the self - centered sculptor played by Dustin Hoffman in Noah Baumbach's latest survey of fractured family dynamics amid New York creative types.

The story of this fractured family has a ring of authenticity, but lacks the hands of an artist to shape it into something more profound and affecting.

After falling into a reckless affair with a cocky guy from her college days (Wittrock, all teeth and bad - boy charm), an anguished Dana temporarily moves back in with her unhappily married middle - age parents and younger sister, Ali (Quinn, who uncannily resembles Slate), to hide out from her other half, who knows nothing about her transgressions, and to recalibrate her life in the sagging bosom of her fractured family.

Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present - day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis.

An elegiac novel of unusual emotional depth, The Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty.

The Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty.

Just as the Apology acknowledged the consequences of fracturing families; just as the preamble to the NTA acknowledged the «consequences of past injustices»; so we must make these same acknowledgments in the business with which we are charged — getting back to basics... and making land justice real.

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Her narrative reveals how this family of churches has sought to grapple with inherited problems and the fractures between its Holiness - Pentecostal, Reformed - Baptist, and Mennonite - Brethren wings (Lutherans are absent; Anglicans occasionally appear).

Unlike many champions of family values who are evasive about their own fractured families, West and Hewlett are frank about the difficulties of raising children.

As a pastor who has walked families through infidelity and its awful fallout far too many times over the past two decades, I've seen the horrible collateral damage of it all; the violation of trust, the fractured relationships, the wounds it inflicts on people and the barriers it erects between them, sometimes irrevocably.

As much as I am outside of my comfort zone here (I do not attend church - nor plan on doing so ever again, I have plenty of non-christian friends but not one Christian friend in my current city, I DJ at a bar, I run a radio that plays secular music (yet everything is sacred), I work a regular day job, I struggle with financial hardship and responsibilities I never asked for..., I sometimes have fear of the future and many times my faith dwindles... Some days I cry because I support my family and I feel just really tired...) despite all this fractured humanity that I am....

You can not have a society like America's: multiethnic, with fractured families, dog eat dog, win or lose, limited healthcare, and a history of violence — and then let people buy guns easily.

Senior Destiney Lee nearly did not get the opportunity to help her basketball family on the court as the UNLV signee missed most of the season with a stress fracture in her foot.

The fracture can be seen also within members of the same political family, as, for example, various other ALDE members strongly criticized the government in Chisinau.

The stage for Hawkins» real campaign was set, unintentionally, by the Working Families Party, whose base of labor unions and progressive groups nearly fractured over a plan to spurn Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, and nominate Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor who has written extensively about political corruption.

«But if you have bone issues — a history of fractures, say, or long - term steroid use, or a lot of osteoporosis in your family — you may need to see a doctor and get your D levels checked.»

The Fighter is the inspirational, true story of these two brothers who, against all the odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family, redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard - luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.

Family feuds and fractured relationships abound in Schroeder's portrait, which she lays out lucidly and suspensefully, segueing between the feds» investigation, the conflicting stories and confessions of her primary suspects, and the backstory particulars that shed light on the motivations — and culpability — of all involved.

A work from one of Britain's most loved authors finds itself in the hands of American indie auteur Wes Anderson, best known for his arch and perfectionist takes on eccentric schemers and fractured family dynamics.

The picture, based on the play by Tracy Letts, centers on a fractured family and the crisis that reunites them under the roof of their dysfunctional matriarch (Streep).

Outrageously funny yet firmly grounded in reality, this observant comedy from German director Maren Ade (Everyone Else) explores fractured family bonds through the story of a workaholic corporate strategist (Sandra Huller) who doesn't have the time to deal with her goofy father (Peter Simonischek), who only wants the two of them to be closer.

Yes, this is another of Russells fractured, fractious families, the full chaos of their pinballing, up - to - 11 lives communicated by his redeployment of a hurtling camera, jump cuts and a generous serving of hit tunes on the soundtrack.

Released: March 17 Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yōko Maki, Taiyô Yoshizawa Director: Hirokazu Kore - eda (Like Father, Like Son) Why it's great: Kore - eda is a master of the billowing family drama, and After the Storm is another portrait of fracture and recovery that will break your heart.

In a sense, however, it's the film's sticking to convention that makes it sweetly subversive: its portrait of a lesbian two - mum household in Californian suburbia demonstrates how any variety of family can fracture and unite along much the same lines.

Naturally, the family dynamic is where Russell excels, creating a believably unified yet fractured system of extended family and generational differences.

He's a family man, though that's been a stressful role to upkeep as of late as his family's been recently fractured.

Structured around the fracturing of two family units, one irreparably shattered, one holding firm despite intense pressure, it imagines life as a steady succession of denials, duty waging a futile struggle against desire.

As a freak blizzard suddenly engulfs the neighbourhood, all hell begins to breaks loose as beloved Christmas holiday characters take on a monstrous life of their own, reaping havoc to the fractured family's home, forcing them to fight for each other if they hope to survive.

The film doesn't sugarcoat the senility that creeps up on Clarence, which Caine plays with a state of confusion and helplessness that can be terrifying, but by the end of the film it becomes a healing kind of mourning and a new start for our fractured family.

Sure it's not a profound viewing experience, it's a romcom - but it captures certain aspects of modern life, fractured families etc really well.

The siblings hail from a family irreversibly fractured from the fateful day that Kym at 16 had an automobile accident which claimed the life of the brother she was babysitting.

It's also a touching look at growing up that managed to plant thematic seeds that would end up blossoming in future Baumbach endeavors (delayed maturity, creative stasis, the tenuousness of friendship and fractured family bonds).

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Kohan also created Showtime's sprawling drug - and - fractured - family saga, «Weeds,» and «Orange Is the New Black» has some of that same comi - tragic feel to it, with a whole lot more depth.

Asghar Farhadi's latest film, selected to open the 71st Cannes Film Festival, is another of the Iranian director's studies in troubled families and fractured relationships.

The title may sound generic, but Arnaud Desplechin's mercurial «A Christmas Tale» spikes the punch of the familiar heartwarming family drama: It's a turbulent journey into the emotional maelstrom of a fractured French clan during the Christmas holidays.

The Fighter is inspired by the true story of these two brothers who came together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family and redeem their pasts.