Sentences with phrase «old family drama»
The sisters are soon at odds over their father's care — and over old family dramas.
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Through his clever, snarky use of royal family photos, the TV writer Gary Janetti has created a drama starring 4 - year - old Prince George.
But a 55 - year - old teacher dealing with family, money, and career saw something else in Lapham's home, family, office, and bank account — namely, an engaging moral drama filled with plausible people doing fateful things.
Kenyon's life story is fascinating and wrenching, the stuff of both highbrow and middlebrow drama, She was a college student who married her much older professor, retreated with him from university life to a family farmhouse in New Hampshire, rediscovered her faith (without turning into a wild - eyed zealot), bravely battled depression, came into her own as a poet and loyally nursed her husband through two difficult bouts with cancer.
A lot of family dramas happen around this time, because the child, the 16 year old or the 17 year old feels the parent want to still control them right at the moment when they want to become most independent.
Leave it to the truly soulless medium of television to bring the zombie archetype full circle with CBS's Babylon Fields, an hour - long series the network describes as a «sardonic, apocalyptic American comedy - drama where the dead are rising and as a result, lives are regained, families restored, and old wounds reopened.»
I am from erie pa and I am 23 years old and latino and very out goin love to have fun and love to chill with my family I lile the movies and listen to music I am all round a fun girl not about the drama just lile to be chilled back and have fun
Outgoing fun professional lady.A big sence of humor, love anything on thewwater, love music outdoors, like to have friends over for dinner, love to travel good wine discovering new places, family very important am from old school with no baggage or drama, love keeping a nice home have dabbled in...
Writer, director and star Tyler Perry returns to his signature role in this comedy - drama that finds family matriarch Madea juggling several romantic crises involving her nieces» relationships as well as the funeral of an older sister - all on the weekend that her entire clan is gathering for a reunion.
A family drama detailing the efforts made by an 12 - year - old girl to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.
Critics Consensus: Much like its predecessor, Dolphin Tale 2 offers animal antics and sweet, old - fashioned drama that the whole family can enjoy.
Critic Consensus: Much like its predecessor, Dolphin Tale 2 offers animal antics and sweet, old - fashioned drama that the whole family can enjoy.
An exercise in sober drama and a middle - class cautionary tale which explores a family ripped up by the roots after the rape of a 14 - year - old girl.
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.
In this family drama, a divorced father picks up his 8 - year - old daughter for what appears to be a routine weekend.
The unique drama centers on a four - year - old boy who is raised by whales after falling overboard during a family outing.
With a tale of sibling rivalry clearly influenced by the Old Testament, «Warrior» looks to deliver a nice balance between family drama and sports underdog movie.
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.
Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Garth Davis Actors: Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman Plot: As a five - year - old, young Saroo finds himself alone on the bustling streets of Calcutta, separated from his family and far from home.
The 54 - year - old director left a successful run in British theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.
Offbeat and funny but thoroughly realistic, this period drama explores issues of family, youth and social pressure through the eyes of a 15 - year - old who's just starting to realise that people perhaps are more complicated than...
Featuring an astonishing, Oscar - nominated performance by a then - twenty - six - year - old Ryan Gosling as a functioning drug addict, basketball coach and history educator, and an equally outstanding turn by newcomer Shareeka Epps as a street-wise middle - school student, the impressive indie drama is a considerate and mannered look at dynamics, race and make - shift families.
By the time Anderson's done, you'll realize there's an answer embedded in those funky detours, the same way that you can pick out a family drama in his porn - industry epic, Boogie Nights; an old - fashioned romance in Punch - Drunk Love; and character studies about the self - made man in There Will Be Blood and The Master.
Post Mortem (Unrated) Romance drama, set against the backdrop of the overthrow of President Allende in Chile in 1973, revolving around a 55 year - old morgue attendant (Alfredo Castro) who embarks on a frantic search for a missing burlesque dancer (Antonia Zegers) he has a crush on, following a raid on her family's home by government soldiers.
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 promiOld inside Dysfunctional Boston Family 16 year - old Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a kid with a lot of promiold Cole McKay (Michael Angarano) is a kid with a lot of promise.
A light romantic drama set on the horse racing circuit, Harlow is a socialite back from Europe, where he's picked up a lot of aristocratic attitude and a swell of a beau (Walter Pidgeon as a high society bachelor with old family money), and Clark Gable is a race track bookie and friend of the family who alternately competes with her and for her.
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.
Welcome (Unrated) Illegal alien drama about a 17 year - old Kurdish refugee's (Firat Ayverdi) arduous, inter-continental, three - month trek from Iraq to England to reunite with his girlfriend (Derya Ayverdi) whose family has already settled in London.
(In English and German with subtitles) INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Secret of the Grain (Unrated) Cross-cultural drama, set in the seacoast town of Sete, revolving around the frustrating adjustment to life in France by a family of Arab immigrants headed by a divorced and depressed, 61 year - old patriarch (Habib Boufares) who dreams of opening his own restaurant.
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.
32) «American Fable» Smart Rating: 63.66 Release date: Friday, February 17, 2017 Genre: Thriller, drama Starring: Peyton Kennedy, Kip Pardue, Richard Schiff Description: With her family's livelihood imperiled by the farm crisis during the 1980s, 11 - year - old Gitty loses herself in a world of fantasy and make believe.
Clio Barnard Clio Barnard returns with her third feature Dark River, a familial drama about old wounds being re-opened when a woman returns to her childhood home to settle the tenancy of her family's Yorkshire farm.
53) «Youth in Oregon» Smart Rating: 33.92 Release date: Friday, February 3, 2017 Genre: Comedy drama Starring: Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate Description: When 79 - year - old curmudgeon Raymond (Frank Langella) makes arrangements to be euthanized in Oregon, his family refuses to accept his decision.
Trucker (R for sexuality, profanity, drug use involving minors and sexual assault) Michelle Monahan stars in this dysfunctional family drama about a carefree truck driver forced to mature when her terminally ex-husband (Benjamin Bratt) can no longer care for their 11 year - old son (Jimmy Bennett).
A soul - searcher family drama, the film follows Winstead's Alex, an environmentalist attorney so preoccupied with work that her husband (Messina), feeling neglected and trapped as a stay - at - home dad, takes a sabbatical from the family, leaving Alex to take care of her aging actor dad (Johnson) and ten - year - old son (Skylar Gaertner).
The 44 - year - old was cast as murderous Leo Burns in ABC drama Pushing Daisies before hitting the big - time in hit TV comedy series Modern Family in...
All We Had (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama about a cash - strapped single - mom (Katie Holmes) living hand - to - mouth with her 13 year - old daughter (Stefania Owen) until they move to a tiny town where she finds a steady job as a waitress only to be victimized by a fast - talking mortgage broker (Mark Consuelos).
A teaser trailer and poster have arrived online for Red Dog: True Blue, the prequel to the 2011 hit Australian family drama Red Dog, which stars Levi Miller, Jason Isaacs, Bryan Brown and John Jarratt; take a look below... When 11 - year old Mick (Levi Miller) is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in the remote Pilbara region of Western -LSB-...]
Greater acceptance and tolerance might have rendered movies about «coming out» less necessary, but this gritty drama puts a fresh spin on familiar themes by chronicling Frankie (Harris Dickinson), a Brooklyn teenager with a troubled family life who patrols the beaches with his macho buddies by day and surreptitiously flirts with older men online by night.
This bold family crime drama from John Wells Productions centers on 17 - year - old «J» Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of an overdose.
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.
He first met Greta Gerwig, the Sacramento - born 34 - year - old New York actress - turned - writer - director of family drama «Lady Bird,» on their Vanity Fair photo shoot in Bel Air.
It's during an elegiac detour in Norway — a scene that bears the blatant imprint of green - screen tinkering — that Ragnarok extends its sci - fi Shakespeare family drama, introducing a new heavy: Thor's heretofore - unmentioned older sister, Hela, the goddess of death, played by a black - clad, antlered Cate Blanchett, with nearly as much vamping, eye - rolling sarcasm as Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns.
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...
Sarah's Key (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Holocaust drama, set in present - day Paris, about an investigative journalist's (Kristin Scott Thomas) research the story of how the family of a 10 year - old girl (Melusine Mayance) was torn asunder by the roundup of Jews in occupied France during World War II.
Yelling to the Sky (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama about a bi-racial 17 year - old (Zoe Kravitz) forced to fend for herself in a rough neighborhood due to an absentee mother (Yolonda Ross) and a father (Jason Clarke) given to violent mood swings.
Local director Megan Griffiths returns to SIFF with «Sadie,» with a family drama that focuses on 13 - year - old Sadie, the troubled daughter of a soldier serving overseas who resorts to extreme measures when her mother begins dating another man.
La Cucina, the heart of the family's lush estate, was a place where generations of Fiore women prepared sumptuous feasts and where the drama of extended family life was played out around the age - old table.
A gripping family drama, this small, beautiful novel, rooted in hard fact, is true to 11 - year - old Tessa's experience after her older brother is killed in a drunk - driving accident.
The family dynamics are as compelling as the love and friendship drama, as 14 - year - old Ellen discovers she loves her brother's best friend, who loves her brother, who is scared that he's gay.