Sentences with phrase «one's family hostage»

When the following headline popped up in my newsfeed on Facebook, I had to click it: «22 - pound pet cat holds family hostage until police arrive ``.

An overblown remake of William Wyler's 1955 film The Desperate Hours — itself based on the novel and stage play by Joseph Hayes — Cimino's Desperate Hours cast Rourke in the Humphrey Bogart role of a criminal on the lam who holds a suburban family hostage in their own home while he waits for his girlfriend to show up.

A Bronx man accused of holding an Albany family hostage during a Dec. 23 standoff with police appears to have shot himself during the altercation.

12:00 pm EST / 11:00 am CST — TCM — The Desperate Hours In one of Humphrey Bogart's last films, he plays the leader of a group of escaped convicts who takes a suburban family hostage in their home to try to preserve their freedom.

The unions are willing to hold poor families hostage to a failed system even while a majority of Jersey City teachers and their union president send their own children to private schools.

A cold - blooded killer (Johnny Cash) poses as a door - to - door guitar instructor to take a bank managers family hostage and hold them for a ransom.

One can see in the main plot that Hostage tries to be more than a standard family hostage story by upping the ante a bit, having the hostage investigator himself attempting to bargain several sides in order to reach an amicable conclusion for all, including the chance of sacrificing the people he is sworn to protect in order to save his own wife and daughter.

These bigger fish respond by taking Talley's own family hostage to ensure that their interests are taken care of, putting Tally in a tightrope situation where the slightest mishap will mean the end of two innocent families at once.

The Ref (1994) Ted Demme's dark comedy about a burglar forced to take a bickering family hostage on Christmas is a non-traditional favorite of many.

In early 1969, a military commission on a rescue mission, made violent contact with the Carabayo and took one family hostage.

Bill Cox (Paul Bettany), left, takes Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) and his family hostage in an effort to compel the security executive to rob his own bank in the thriller «Firewall.»

Tell that to Laura Guerrero, who enters a Mexican beauty contest only to be caught in the middle of a drug war, smuggling money for the gang that's holding her family hostage, and watching the bodies drop until she's one of the last few standing.

The man (played by Josh Brolin) reveals himself to be an escaped convict, who takes the family hostage during Labor Day weekend.

And the timing was pretty much perfect, since the Wish Realm Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) was holding Henry (Andrew J. West) and his family hostage while the Wish Realm's Young Henry (aka the Author) took his revenge on Roni (Lana Parrilla).

This straightforward metaphor for ruthless capitalism turns even more bizarre when our hero refuses to obey: the woman then holds his family hostage and threatens to kill everyone on the train if he doesn't follow her orders.

While out for a drink with his partner Harry Romano (Robert Forster in a thankless role) and Bill Cox (Paul Bettany), a man looking for a business deal, men enter Jack's home and take his family hostage.

While this is a remake, it lacks originality in that it also has obviously absorbed the terrific format of Michael Haneke's «Funny Games,» which features two preppie - looking killers who take a family hostage.

Majority rule has the potential to shift the current acrimony to slightly different terrain while continuing to hold children and their families hostage to doctrinal zeal.

Events follow that of Nikolai Orelov in a time between that of The Fall and The Chain as he steals from the Bolsheviks holding the Tsar's family hostage.

John Marston is a former outlaw forced to hunt down his old gang for the government who are holding his family hostage.

Holding his family hostage, they force him to hunt down and kill his old brother in arms.