Sentences with phrase «of wicked stepmothers»

It's a message that Ella will need when her father remarries and she's left living in an attic under the watchful eye of her wicked stepmother (a wonderfully scornful Cate Blanchett) and her obnoxious stepsisters (Sophie McShera and Holliday Grainger).

Who: Cinderella is a young woman whose father suddenly dies, leaving her in the custody of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.

But experts said that while the findings did not establish the image of the wicked stepmother as true, they supported the conclusion that, for complex reasons, stepmothers do invest less in children than biological mothers do, with fathers, to a large extent, leaving to women the responsibility for the family's welfare.»

Not exact matches

There's just a wonderful lightness and sweetness to Branagh's Cinderella — Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter are perfectly cast as the wicked stepmother and fairy godmother, and Branagh manages to use VFX to add sweets to an already frothy confection, instead of letting them take over.

This version of Cinderella features Drew Barrymore in the title role and Angelica Huston as the wicked stepmother.

That's what a wicked stepmother (Helena Bonham Carter) hisses at 16 - year - old Nigel (Freddie Highmore) in Toast, an adaptation of a»60s - set memoir by British food writer Nigel Slater.

Her father, her wicked stepmother Julia (Claire Higgens), and her horny reanimated cannibalistic uncle Frank (Sean Chapman) have all been killed by the Cenobites: a foursome of leather - clad demons that have a predilection for ripping people apart with fishhooks.

Besides the upcoming Malick films and the final chapter of «The Hobbit» later this year, she will star in a live - action version of «Cinderella» directed by Kenneth Branagh as the wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine next year; she gets tangled up in a lesbian affair with Rooney Mara («The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo») in Carol, a thriller directed by «I'm Not There»» s Todd Haynes; and she will do a rare TV role as a real - life New Yorker cartoonist who battled cancer in HBO's «Cancer Vixen,» directed by Julie Delpy.

Dante Ferretti's color production design and Sandy Powell's wide - ranging costumes (the black - with - green - stripes design on wicked stepmother Lady Tremaine's dress offers an expressive contrast with Cinderella's initial plain pink dress) are so intoxicatingly colorful that every shot has the immersiveness of a dream.

The climax takes place on the grounds of a rundown play - land inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm (where the truth of her origin is revealed), and her primary hunter is a CIA agent named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who serves as both the wicked stepmother (There's little doubt that had things gone her way, Hanna would be working alongside her in covert operations) and the big, bad wolf (She appears, at one key moment, out of the maw of her archetypical inspiration).

Early on, we get a taste of Charlize Theron as the wicked stepmother / evil queen.

As an actress, Lily James boasts a relatively scant resume to take on the iconic role of the little orphaned girl forced to serve her wicked stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and despicable stepsisters (Sophie McShera, Holliday Grainger).

After the death of her father (Jeroen Krabbé), Danielle (nicknamed «Cinderella») is treated as a lowly servant girl by her wicked stepmother Rodmilla (Anjelica Huston, wonderfully bitchy).

Over the past couple of days we've seen Cinderella posters featuring Cate Blanchett, Holliday Grainger and Sophie McShera's wicked stepmother and stepsisters [see here] and Helena Bonham Carter's Fairy Godmother [see here], and now it's the turn of Lily James» Ella alongside her Prince Charming, played by Richard Madden... The story of «Cinderella» follows the -LSB-...]

As she prepares to take her stand, she stumbles upon an old pendant of her mother's and, slowly, her memory starts to return - specifically, recollections of a shocking and painful childhood, a sister who was sent away to Ireland, and the wicked stepmother she swore to forget.

I work full time and spend the rest of my time attempting to be a 50s housewife / not to be a wicked stepmother to my 4 year old stepson, affectionately referred to as Monster.

I work full time and spend the rest of my time attempting to be a 50s housewife / not to be a wicked stepmother to my 4 year old stepson, affectionately referred to as Monster.

For stepmothers, two quite opposite ones: the wicked stepmother of Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Cinderella fame, and the perfect stepmother like Julie Andrews in the «Sound of Music.»

These women do not refer to their partner's children as «his children» because they in any way resemble the «wicked stepmothers» of fairy tales fame.

We've all heard the famous stepmonster horror stories... like that of the workings of Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's wicked stepmother.

I was feeling kind of like a wicked stepmother for a while.