Sentences with phrase «of this dysfunctional family drama»

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Suburban life is highlighted at its most dysfunctional in this best picture Oscar winner that looks at a father (Kevin Spacey) in a midlife crisis and the drama surrounding the rest of his family.

When viewed on their own, the stunning sequences documenting the beginnings of life on earth might have worked, and the same goes for the gritty, dysfunctional family drama segments that form the core of the film.

The retired patriarch of a New York - based Chinese - American family finds that escaping the insanity of his decidedly dysfunctional clan is more difficult than he anticipated in a thoughtful family drama from writer / director Georgia Lee.

Recalling both The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) and American Beauty (1999), this teen drama recounts the trials and tribulations of one very dysfunctional family.

Winter's Bone (R for profanity, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the Ozarks, about a spunky 17 year - old's (Jennifer Lawrence) perilous trek through the Ozark Mountains in search of her meth - dealing father who has jumped bail after putting up their house as collateral.

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.

The winner of a $ 70,000 SFFS / KRF postproduction grant, this dysfunctional family drama stars Aaron Paul of «Breaking Bad.»

Hulk — Halfway between a regular Ang Lee movie (dysfunctional families, lots of slow drama) and a modern comic book movie (the Spider - Man and X-Men movies), most people hated this film.

is a provocative dysfunctional family drama, very similar to others of its ilk in story, but very different in execution

This Christmas (Unrated) Family skeletons aplenty come popping out of the closet during this holiday drama set during a dysfunctional African - American family's first reunion in Family skeletons aplenty come popping out of the closet during this holiday drama set during a dysfunctional African - American family's first reunion in family's first reunion in years.

Sister Cities (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama revolving around the reunion of four estranged sisters (Troian Bellisario, Stana Katic, Michelle Trachtenberg and Jess Weixler) for the funeral after their mother's (Jacki Weaver) apparent suicide.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Angels Crest (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family drama chronicling the blame game played in the wake of the accidental death of a toddler (Ameko Eks Mass Carroll) as his estranged parents (Thomas Dekker and Lily Collins) and members of their tight - knit community try to make sense of the tragedy.

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.

In the film, the writer of such acclaimed dramas as After the Wedding, In a Better World, Red Road, and Brothers, investigates the knotty and perverse family tree that two troubled, dysfunctional, eccentric brothers living on a remote Danish island belong to.

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.

Treeless Mountain (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in Seoul, about a six year - old girl (Hee - yeon Kim) taken out of school to care for her two year - old sister (Song - hee Kim) by their financially - struggling mother (Soo - ah Lee) who leaves them in the care of their selfish, alcoholic aunt (Mi - hyang Kim) so she can search for their deadbeat father.

Thus unfolds Rachel Getting Married, a dysfunctional family drama which employs a refreshing array of colorblind casting.

Bliss (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama based on Omer Zulfu Livaneli's incendiary best seller about a 17 year - old rape victim (Ozgu Namal) whose mortified Muslim parents (Emin Gursoy and Sebnem Kostem) ask her cousin (Murat Han) to perform an honor killing when she refuses to commit suicide after her loss of chastity.

Kabei: Our Mother (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama based on Teruyo Nogami's childhood memoir about coming - of - age in Japan during the turbulent times of the late1930s.

A Korine take on the dysfunctional family drama, untreated schizophrenic Julien (Ewen Bremner) provides the perspective for an investigation into the misery of his family - pregnant sister Pearl (Chloë Sevigny), brother Chris and domineering Father (Werner Herzog)

Some of you may have seen his first two features — the teen - drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.

At first glance the storyline of Little Miss Sunshine appears to be a completely clichéd American independent comedy / drama — a dysfunctional family is thrown together under strained circumstances to go on a road trip.

Writer - director David O. Russell has made three kinds of movies: offbeat romances («Flirting With Disaster»), surreal comedies («I Heart Huckabees») and dramas about dysfunctional yet appealing families («The Fighter»).

It's a classic dysfunctional family comedy - drama in many respects, with every single family member of the central Jacobs family dealing with some sort of personal trouble: older sister Dana (Slate) with misgivings about her engagement to Ben (Jay Duplass), which she channels into an affair with an old college friend, Nate (Finn Wittrock); younger sister Ali (Abby Quinn) with a rebellious nature that leads her into all - night clubbing and increasingly adventurous drug use; and their on - the - outs parents, Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), the stagnation of their marriage only magnified when Ali discovers her father indulging in his own philandering.

Bart Freundlich («The Myth of Fingerprints») directs and writes the screenplay to what seems like just another dysfunctional family drama, one that too easily becomes blurred with all the other similar tales of woe.

is the burning question at the heart of Not Easily Broken, a dysfunctional family drama directed by Bill Duke.

The new drama «August: Osage County,» based on the Pulitzer - and Tony - winning Tracy Letts play of the same name, tells the story of a dysfunctional family reuniting in Oklahoma over a fractious few days, during which dark secrets and old grudges are...

During a Thursday appearance on «The Late Show» to promote her upcoming dysfunctional family drama «August: Osage County,» David Letterman angled to get to the bottom of said rumors.

Not much to add to that, apart from the observation that this dysfunctional family drama is a SIFF World Premiere, and like so many premieres has every earmark of a film passed over by Sundance and Tribeca.

One of those happy to be on this dysfunctional roller coaster was Film School Rejects» Kate Erbland who declared «August: Osage County» to be the pinnacle of family dramas.

I'm Glad My Mother Is Still Alive (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama about a troubled teenager's (Vincent Rottiers) obsession with finding his birth mother (Sophie Cattani) who had given him up for adoption at the age of four.

Director Jonathan Demme (an Oscar winner for Silence of the Lambs) and writer Diablo Cody (an Oscar winner for Juno) inexplicably drop the family drama soon after the dinner scene and we spend most of the second half watching Streep and Rick Springfield play out their dysfunctional relationship onstage.

There is not a sympathetic character in Landline, a comic drama about the various dysfunctions of a dysfunctional family.

For this dysfunctional family has more compelling drama than you can shake a stick of French bread at.

Though dysfunctional family dramas are not everyone's cup of tea, and the Westons are a more volatile clan than most who've graced the silver screen, August: Osage County emerges as a very thoughtful, insightful, and well - acted drama that manages to break from the staginess of the play to be quite a good dramatic film on its own.

For this dysfunctional family is filled with more drama than you can shake a stick of French bread at.

Brothers (R for profanity and disturbing violence) Jim Sheridan directs this dysfunctional family drama about an ex-con (Jake Gyllenhaal) who gets involved with his big brother's (Tobey Maguire) wife (Natalie Portman) after his sibling goes missing in Afghanistan, only to have a lot of explaining to do upon the decorated veteran's rescue and return to the States.

BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON signed: In this atmospheric, nuanced 700 + page comedy - drama by Dash Shaw, the announcement of a planned divorce by Maggie & David Loony sparks a week - long family reunion at the dysfunctional family's creepy (and possibly haunted) beach house.

Fans of dysfunctional family memoirs will have to look elsewhere for drama.

In dysfunctional families triangles are common because they serve the purpose of providing a relief to the drama.