Sentences with phrase «old widow story»

Dated a guy similar to the one in the 58 - yr old widow story.

Not exact matches

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

From director Gary Fleder and written by Sylvester Stallone, the action thriller Homefront (now available on Blu - ray / DVD) tells the story of widowed ex-DEA agent Phil Broker (Jason Statham), who retires to a quiet Southern town with this 10 - year - old daughter, only...

Like Starlet, in which a 21 - year - old woman begins to search for and later depend upon the friendship of an octogenarian widow, the gifts offered by Drinking Buddies are found in its small moments, in the secret looks between friends and its resistance to the melodrama of in its emotional story.

A prequel to White's underwhelming film, the story begins in 1967, with widowed mother Alice Zander (Elizabeth Reaser) and her two daughters, 15 - year - old Lina (Annalise Basso of Oculus) and 9 - year - old Doris (Lulu Wilson, Scott Derrickson's Deliver Us from Evil), running a séance scam business in Los Angeles.

Whether it's a long tracking shot of a steaming dog - diarrhea trail soundtracked by Debussy's «Clair de Lune», or a surreal, gut - wrenching hallucination suffered by the lonely old widow of the final story (Ellen Burstyn)-- in which her multiple past selves visit her as a reminder of her failures and missed opportunities — these expressionistic touches, rather than dreamlike whimsy, hit deeper disappointments and realities.

Dame Judi Dench's nomination for «Mrs. Henderson Presents,» the story of a doughty British widow who opens a Soho theater featuring nudity, was expected, but 20 - year - old Keira Knightley's best actress nod for «Pride & Prejudice» was a surprise.

Debut author Michael Hiebert talks about the inspiration for his coming - of - age mystery, Dream with Little Angels, the story of mom Leah Teal, a widowed police officer, as she investigates the disappearances of children in Alvin, Alabama — all told by her 11 - year - old son, Abe.

In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death - from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love - but also reveals how Miles's death mirrored her father's death in a plane crash, which Artis survived when she was five years old and which left her own mother a young widow.