Sentences with phrase «on dysfunctional families»

Two films in my top ten, American Beauty and The Ice Storm, both center on dysfunctional families.

As that list might suggest, Steven Spielberg is an obvious influence on Midnight Special, particularly in the emphasis that writer Jeff Nichols puts on the dysfunctional family at the heart of the story.

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)

Drawing inspiration from an actual event in which the U.S. military dumped formaldehyde into the Han River from their Seoul located base in 2000, Bong gave the monster movie a face lift by keeping the focus on a dysfunctional family rather than the military.

In Wedding Loop (2017), Davey takes up the enigmas of identity, cycling through ruminations on her dysfunctional family and who she is in their midst.

Not exact matches

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

If you've ever caught a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond, you've witnessed a pretty good take on society's view of the dysfunctional family.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

I'm apprehensive that you'll disqualify yourselves on the grounds that you work in a noisy office or live in a dysfunctional family or don't have much interest in that kind of life.

This fact will probably be lost on the preachers, however, because in most cases they also will have come from a dysfunctional family — one in which expression of emotions is discouraged or repressed, usually through compulsive substance abuse.

Focusing on your child's need in that moment helps you to put aside the anxiety that a dysfunctional family label creates and gives you the opportunity to be more effective right now.

I have a very dysfunctional family dynamic and I am so passionate about ensuring that Youngling and I change our future and for our family from here on in.

-- to make sure you get the message: this is your family, it may be broken, it may be dysfunctional, it may even be on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown, but it is the only one you've got.

It failed, he says, because its methods were based on a now antiquated view that dysfunctional families caused psychosis.

If a supervisor is perceived as having favorites, it can have a devastating effect on productivity, akin to sibling rivalry in a dysfunctional family.

In other words, does having a healthy family environment versus a dysfunctional one have any influence on whether or not a child will develop the disease?

It provides a list of suggestions for preventing families from becoming dysfunctional during times of stress and change by focusing on meeting basic human emotional needs within the family.

Some families may have happened to be at a rough «patch» at all instances of observation, whereas others may not have appeared that dysfunctional at the time but generally functioned on a tense and unhealthy level.

In addition to dysfunctional family relationships, some of the key stress - creating factors in life (and therefore things to avoid, or make efforts to minimize the stress impact on the children) have been judged to include (with «Most Stressful» at the top of the list).

My mother - in - law (MIL hereafter) has narcissistic personality disorder and her husband is in the early stages of coming to terms with his mother's dysfunctional behaviour and its impact on the family.

Based on Jeannette Wall's best - selling memoir, The Glass Castle chronicles the adventures of an eccentric family led by a dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson) and the daughter (Brie Larson) who left to make a life of her own.

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.

Originally famous as the bodacious, brain - challenged Bundy offspring Kelly on Fox's long - running dysfunctional family sitcom Married... With Children, Christina Applegate parlayed her comic talents and sexy image into a parallel movie career.

Could we please declare a moratorium on funny - sad movies about dysfunctional families, especially families that come together for the holidays?

In 2012, she completed work with Griffin Dunne on Justin Schwartz's film THE DISCOVERS, a human comedy about a dysfunctional family.

Fun Size is a teen comedy centered on a sarcastic high school senior, Wren, who is eager to distance herself from her dysfunctional family by going off to college.

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).

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 well - trodden dysfunctional family plot ends up playing better on the small screen than the big.

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a par with pork belly futures.

Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a... Read More»

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max Engel (Emjay Anthony, The Jungle Book, Chef) is disillusioned and decides to turn his back on Christmas.

Following yesterday's Legendary Pictures panel at the San Diego Comic - Con, a new poster has been released for Krampus, the upcoming festive horror comedy from director Michael Dougherty (Trick «R Treat)... The horror - comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together and comically clashes over the -LSB-...]

Competing for best musical or comedy will be «The Devil Wears Prada,» a satire of the fashion industry; «Thank You for Smoking,» a satire of the tobacco industry; «Borat,» a satire of America; «Little Miss Sunshine,» a heart - warming saga of a dysfunctional family; and «Dreamgirls,» which is loosely based on the saga of the Supremes and is the sole musical of the lot.

The first images have arrived online from director Michael Dougherty's upcoming festive horror comedy Krampus, and we have them for you here... SEE ALSO: Comic - Con poster for Krampus The horror - comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together and comically clashes over the holidays.

Based on Jeannette Walls» 2005 autobiography, The Glass Castle stars Larson as Walls, a young woman who grows up amid a dysfunctional, poverty - stricken family, including alcoholic father Rex (Harrelson) and artist mother Rose Mary (Watts).

A dysfunctional family's misadventures in getting their young daughter to a beauty pageant result in an offbeat comedy with reflections on uniting people in the face of adversity.

The third film in director - producer - writer - every other film role you can hyphenate Wes Anderson's repertoire, The Royal Tenenbaums centers on the dysfunctional titular family and their equally off - kilter lives, loves and losses.

The Guilt Trip (PG - 13 for violence, profanity and drug use) Dysfunctional family comedy about a scientist (Seth Rogen) who, against his better judgment, invites his overbearing mother (Barbara Streisand) to tag along on a cross-country journey in search of a distributor for his new invention.

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.

While this dysfunctional family drama is more depressing than inspiring, it is certain to impress at least one strong warning on those who view the film: Once you have built a barrier it is hard to tear it down, so be careful when choosing which things to encircle and which things to close out.

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.

You'll either get a mediocre horror film or a mediocre dysfunctional family adventure depending on your inclination.

A dysfunctional family plan on getting together for Christmas, but on Christmas Eve each member is involved in their own story.

Based on an ancient Alpine Christmas legend, «Krampus, starring Adam Scott and Toni Colette, follows a modern dysfunctional family whose holiday celebration is overturned by the demonic, goat - like counterpart to St. Nicholas.

We need the ber - dysfunctional Bluth family on the big screen.

While the script got them other work, including on Alexander Payne «s «The Descendants,» for which they shared the Oscar with Payne, «The Way Way Back» — a coming - of - age comedy about a young man working at a waterpark to avoid his dysfunctional family — languished in development hell.

What emerges is a picture of an insular town where the pace is slow, wounds fester, and dysfunctional families inflict the worst on each other.

(In Korean and English with subtitles) Dans Paris (Unrated) Dysfunctional family dramedy, unfolding around Paris over the course of one very eventful day during the Christmas season, examines the emotions of grieving parents (Guy Marchand and Marie - France Pisier) coming to grips with their daughter «s suicide while trying to cheer - up a depressed son (Romain Duris) and to keep tabs on their other boy (Louis Garrel) who «s frittering away the hours chasing women.

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.