Sentences with phrase «own fractured families»

Unlike many champions of family values who are evasive about their own fractured families, West and Hewlett are frank about the difficulties of raising children.

You can not have a society like America's: multiethnic, with fractured families, dog eat dog, win or lose, limited healthcare, and a history of violence — and then let people buy guns easily.

Today the Einsteins are a fractured family.

After falling into a reckless affair with a cocky guy from her college days (Wittrock, all teeth and bad - boy charm), an anguished Dana temporarily moves back in with her unhappily married middle - age parents and younger sister, Ali (Quinn, who uncannily resembles Slate), to hide out from her other half, who knows nothing about her transgressions, and to recalibrate her life in the sagging bosom of her fractured family.

The Fighter is the inspirational, true story of these two brothers who, against all the odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family, redeem their pasts and, at last, give their hard - luck town what it's been waiting for: pride.

The story of this fractured family has a ring of authenticity, but lacks the hands of an artist to shape it into something more profound and affecting.

So Aidan is left scrambling for educational options while sacrificing his own career and trying to bring his fractured family — including his nerdy brother (Josh Gad) who lives in a trailer — back together both physically and emotionally before his father's impending death.

Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

A work from one of Britain's most loved authors finds itself in the hands of American indie auteur Wes Anderson, best known for his arch and perfectionist takes on eccentric schemers and fractured family dynamics.

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).

For Farhadi, it's less a chance to flex his Agatha Christie muscles (although this is superficially a whodunnit and a who's - got - her) and more the opportunity to turn a fractured family and community inside out.

Outrageously funny yet firmly grounded in reality, this observant comedy from German director Maren Ade (Everyone Else) explores fractured family bonds through the story of a workaholic corporate strategist (Sandra Huller) who doesn't have the time to deal with her goofy father (Peter Simonischek), who only wants the two of them to be closer.

Created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong (Lee Daniels» The Butler) and with musical supervision by Timbaland, Empire is an appealingly soapy look inside a fractured family - run entertainment conglomerate.

In strong support, with little to do, are Leavey's fractured family members.

Since we met this fractured family in Daddy's Home, Brad (Will Ferrell) and Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) have managed to figure out how to get along well enough to be in the same room together with their kids and Sara (Linda Cardellini), Brad's wife and Dusty's ex.

I think I'm doing the best work of my life right now, but that's just one man's opinion,» crows the self - centered sculptor played by Dustin Hoffman in Noah Baumbach's latest survey of fractured family dynamics amid New York creative types.

As a freak blizzard suddenly engulfs the neighbourhood, all hell begins to breaks loose as beloved Christmas holiday characters take on a monstrous life of their own, reaping havoc to the fractured family's home, forcing them to fight for each other if they hope to survive.

While his loving but fractured family pulls together to prepare Sally for surgery, John takes a second look at the life he left behind.

(In Arabic, Hebrew and English with subtitles) Grace Is Gone (PG - 13 for teen smoking, mature themes and brief profanity) Fractured family drama about a recent widower (John Cusack) who takes his pre-teen daughters (Shelan O'Keefe and Gracie Bednarczyk) on a cross-country trip from Minnesota to a Florida theme park while trying to figure out how to break the news that their soldier mom has perished over in Iraq.

Too melodramatic to be a real thriller, Thierry Klifa's «His Mother's Eyes / Les Yeux de Sa Mère,» (France) about a writer's plan to ingratiate himself into a fractured family, is still intelligent, engrossing and features an easy - on - the - eyes cast, which includes ever - lovely Catherine Deneuve, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Géraldine Pailhas and Jean - Baptiste Lafarge.

The film doesn't sugarcoat the senility that creeps up on Clarence, which Caine plays with a state of confusion and helplessness that can be terrifying, but by the end of the film it becomes a healing kind of mourning and a new start for our fractured family.

Ingmar Bergman plumbs the depths of a fractured family and gives Ingrid Bergman a shocking star role.

Miles Teller («21 & Over») stars as Sutter, a hard - drinking high school senior with a fractured family life and no future plans beyond phoning in a college entrance essay — a composition replete with curse words and a decidedly devil - may - care bent.

Sure it's not a profound viewing experience, it's a romcom - but it captures certain aspects of modern life, fractured families etc really well.

Besides, Shelley has an exceptionally good reason to want to not only compete but to reassemble her fractured family.

The screenplay attempts to flesh Tripp out with a Steven Spielberg-esque backstory of a fractured family, but this isn't enough to make up for his shortcomings as the hero.

It's also a touching look at growing up that managed to plant thematic seeds that would end up blossoming in future Baumbach endeavors (delayed maturity, creative stasis, the tenuousness of friendship and fractured family bonds).

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

Rogue One has a strong story, centred on a more concise tale of fractured family.

Dave (Harrelson) is struggling to hold his fractured family together while covering up his dodgy activities as a cop in L.A.'s rough Rampart district.

Writer / director Josh Boone has attracted a distinguished cast in his debut film, Stuck in Love, an indie dramedy that explores the love lives of a fractured family of four.

Both a refreshingly unpretentious account of a fractured family and a uniquely perceptive take on quarter - life plight, Exit Elena is one of the best films of the year.

It's likely this movie meant to say much more than it actually does concerning a young woman and her body, consent and fractured families, but it's hard to find much nuance even when you dig into the soil.

Now, the fractured family is forced to unite if they hope to survive.

It's a fractured family to say the least, but it's implied that John Paul had a moderately close relationship to his grandfather despite his parents divorce.

The Fighter is inspired by the true story of these two brothers who came together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family and redeem their pasts.

Anyone who saw Dogtooth knows exactly how effectively Yorgos Lanthimos can stage an unsettling set piece, unpeel the decay of a fractured family, and suspend an entire movie from a single steel filament of dread.

It tells the story of a fractured family — broken by a mother's death and a father's alcoholic grieving — struggling to rebuild itself as the eldest son, Jacob (a terrific Josh Wiggins) slides into delinquency.

All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on monstrous lives of their own, forcing the fractured family to unite in a fight for survival.

Movies about fractured families are easy to come by at the Sundance Film Festival, so it takes something special to make them stand out.

His sensitive, tormented recollections of fractured family relationships and tension - filled interactions within their ordinary Craftsman - style house and roaming their suburban neighborhood are evocative of a time, a place and an American cultural ethos.

It's been more than a decade since Owen Kline starred as a precocious Brooklyn kid in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach's comedic portrait of a fractured family.

One careless wrong turn, one fractured family, one tragic medical report, can strip a child of his or her naturally endowed childhood.

As Jess's belief frays, her teenage myopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family.

You make a good point about how our modern - day fractured families resemble classic fairy - tale families.

Unfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present - day Washington, D.C., Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis.

Hauntingly beautiful and told with an elegant simplicity, this is the story of two brothers growing up in a fractured family on the wild Tasmanian coast.

A heartfelt treatment of a difficult subject, Joseph's second novel is a closely observed tale of a fractured family.

An elegiac novel of unusual emotional depth, The Night Stages explores the meaning of separation, the sorrows of fractured families, and the profound effect of Ireland's wild and elemental landscape on lives shaped by its beauty.

Screenwriter and novelist Ephron expertly builds the layers of suspense as conflict and deception push these fractured families toward a painful epiphany.