Sentences with phrase «one's dying father»

Summary Capsule: Miyagi and New Jersey Sidekick travel to Okinawa to visit dying father, woo curvy women, and fight for the glory of love

Matt Ryder (Sudeikis) is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder (Harris) cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last lab in the world that can develop them before it shuts down for good.

This last is best exemplified by the «Delirium» section featuring Christian Slater as Joe's beloved dying father and it is remarkably affecting, showing von Trier's astonishing ability to manipulate the tone of his films and still remain coherent: here he is completely un-ironic, completely serious, employing no sly wink, only a finely channeled fury at fate, and perhaps God, for the unbelievable injustice and indignity of death.

He tells tales of celebrities hiding out from clamoring fans in the deli at Foxy's Firehouse; of a guard caught in flagrante delicto with a cocktail waitress in a kitchen cooler, and of mob guys doling out favors — like the one who flew Kallos back to Nebraska on his private jet just in time to say good - bye to his dying father.

When I sat on the bed beside my dying father, he referenced his family members, both those who had passed before him as well as those of us who would remain.

And do not behave like the woman who told the dying father's daughter she shouldn't cry in front of him; might make him sad.

I had a good friend that I worked with for two years who was Kurdish and he was so friendly and so not stereotypical Muslim that vistors were shocked when we told them that he had to leave to return to Iraq for his dying Father.

I spent a couple of weeks with my dying father and can relate totally to what the article says.

When his daughter, in the VH - I documentary, tells her dying father that she is going to name one of her boys after him, a look of pure and radiant joy overcomes Warren's face» as if the news suddenly expels all the demons that ever haunted him.

He even read sections of it to his dying father and spoke of the book being «a great strength to me.»

You stepped in to protect the interests of the most innocent and vulnerable person in this human tragedy, the dying father whose suffering is being unnecessarily increased by the theft of his pain meds.

At the home, it was found that the addicted brother was stealing the drug from a dying father....

, writer Charlie Blakeman nearly laughs when Sophie, his ex-girlfriend and a Catholic convert, says she plans to save the soul of her dying father - in - law, an atheist: «I don't think I knew a single person who would have spoken in that way about saving someone's soul,» Charlie observes.

My host tending to her dying father (suffering from oesophagus cancer) as he spat blood into newspaper scraps.

He showed them a sad film — a scene from Franco Zeffirelli's 1979 film The Champ, in which a son cries over the body of his dying father, a boxer — and collected their tears in vials (see video).

The thought occurred to me on reading his famous admonition to his dying father:

But to a woman with a mass in her breast and a dying father, the word «funeral» works like a dirty bomb, exploding into fragments that lodge deep in the brain.

Back in 2009 during the swine flu outbreak which supposedly nearly ended civilisation as we know it, one family used megadoses of vitamin C to save their dying father Allan Smith.

His anxiety about becoming a father is matched only by his reluctance to become king as his dying father - in - law requests.

Synopsis: On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy ge... [MORE]

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an...

Synopsis: The story revolves around Hal (Jack Black) who, taking his dying father's advice, dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection.

Your dying father — a genius scientist — summons you to his antarctic science lab with a grave request: travel deep into unknown space and retrieve the Quintessence — the most powerful source of energy in the universe.

It's a film of stark, superbly judged and beautifully sustained contrasts, the soundtrack hopping confidently from Tammy Wynette to Chopin as Bobby and his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black) travel from the lusty, sun - baked south to the cerebral, rainswept north to pay final respects to Bobby's dying father.

A former child star in her native England on the long - running show «Grange Hill,» Asante spent four years trying to bring her story to the big screen, even working on the script on her wedding day and writing pickup scenes while sitting by her dying father's bedside.

Instead he stands on the threshold of what modern America is turning into and spends the film struggling to reconcile the conception of how he has lived (as seen through his aging, dying father) and how that may have to be adapted or abandoned to survive.

He points out a few emotional landmarks along the way (on your right is a dying father, up ahead are failed dreams), and hopes that at the end we'll all arrive at the same final cathartic epiphany.

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Kodachrome (2017, not rated) stars Jason Sudeikis as a record industry burnout who reluctantly joins his estranged, dying father (Ed Harris) for a road trip to the last lab in America -LSB-...]

Then that turns into a montage of little Barnum writing letters to Charity, caring for his dying father, and stealing bread to survive before joining a traveling circus and returning to propose to Charity.

Kodachrome (2017, not rated) stars Jason Sudeikis as a record industry burnout who reluctantly joins his estranged, dying father (Ed Harris) for a road trip to the last lab in America that processes the famed color film.

Here's the synopsis: «The Netflix road movie centers on Matt Ryder (Sudeikis), who is talked into driving his estranged and dying father, Ben (Harris), across the country on a quest to get four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the one lab left in the world where it can be developed before that location closes down for good.

Whether it's the sudden separation of Jenna's parents (Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner), the broken marriage between Chris (Affleck) and his wife, or Izzy's (Weston) unspoken love for his dying father, the film's subplots offer much richer life lessons than «cheating is bad,» which is essentially what Braff's side of the tale is all about.

Along with Firth and Eisenberg, best - actor contenders are Javier Bardem as a dying father in the Spanish - language drama «Biutiful,» which also is up for best foreign - language film; Bridges as boozy lawman Rooster Cogburn in «True Grit,» a role that earned John Wayne an Oscar for the 1969 adaptation of the Western novel; and James Franco in the real - life tale of a climber trapped in a crevasse after a boulder crushes his arm in «127 Hours.»

Ghost Rider (Columbia, February 16) Starring: Nicolas Cage, Wes Bentley, Eva Mendes, Matt Long, Sam Elliott, Peter Fonda, Donal Logue, Mathew Wilkinson, Daniel Frederiksen Director: Mark Steven Johnson Rating: PG - 13 The Pitch: Stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze (Cage) sells his soul to the devil in order to save his dying father and, in the process, becomes the flaming skeleton of justice known as Ghost Rider.

She's a haunting character, and Larson plays her with a quiet, yearning tension that's quite moving, but the film works to simplify her very complex bond with her parents, even throwing in a melodramatic slow - motion run toward her dying father near the end.

Working the cash register at a truck stop managed by a brassy, surrogate aunt (Christine Lahti) while living with his dying father (Jason Beghe), Charles is a loner with a deformed leg, making him a target for bullies.

Then, This changes course, rather dramatically, as Cheyenne flies to New York to see his dying father.

Bardem, an Oscar winner for «No Country for Old Men,» shared the Cannes best - actor prize, earning his honor for Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's «Biutiful,» a grim portrait of a dying father supporting his family with a variety of criminal rackets in Barcelona.

A supermarket checkout worker and her gambling boyfriend, a sexually frustrated paraplegic and her sister, two other sisters with a dying father, a drug addicted doctor, a religious girl in love with a wannabe burglar, an extramarital affair between a book - binder and a gallery director, a radio disc jockey with impotence problems.

He is finding it more and more difficult to rationalize his relationship with his girlfriend after having made a promise to her dying father that he wouldn't involve her in his dangerous lifestyle.

But hey, the best supporting actor of 1999 was Tom Cruise in «Magnolia,» as a seething motivational speaker struggling with his past and a connection to his dying father.

«Beach Rats» stars British import Harris Dickinson as a lost middle - class youth in Brooklyn with a dying father, a tentative new romance with a young girl and a late - night habit of cruising for hook - ups with older men online.

A young mayor in a small town finds herself in over her head when she tries to manage her dysfunctional family, a dying father, a town on the edge of bankruptcy, and some seriously suspicious mob ties.

However, the couple's sons turn up to debate their inheritance from their dying father, and in the process his Oldest Son (Domhnall Gleeson) kills the Youngest Son (Brian Gleeson).

Gold centres around Ray (Wilmot), who resolves to seek out his estranged ex-partner (Condon) and teenage daughter (Williams) so that his dying father can see his granddaughter one last time.

The Blooms decide to home - school the kids once Aidan's dying father (Mandy Patinkin) can no longer afford to send them to a private school.

Ray (David Wilmot) has returned to both connect with his daughter, Abbie (Maisie Williams), and visit his dying father.

And the fact that the older brother has been gone for ten years and only returned temporarily to see their dying father complicates everything.

In an already great movie, Cruise is incredible as a pickup artist / motivational speaker who reconnects with his dying father.