Sentences with phrase «philandering father»

Her philandering father was constantly bringing home mistresses, to which her verbally abusive mother turned a blind eye.

Even though the vast majority of her life was spent in America, especially New York, she always maintained that her art was framed around her childhood in France, and the actions of her philandering father.

Under the damaged parenting skills of a philandering father and a tragically codependent mother, a set of twins verge off on two opposite paths in order to cope.

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He describes a difficult upbringing with a father whom he said was philandering and verbally abusive.

Hayat's father is a philandering alcoholic neurologist who wears his atheism proudly, scorns the local immigrant Muslim community, and regards all religions and Islam in particular as backward and embarrassingly crude.

The philandering of her suave doctor father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), creates a rift, throwing Eve's mother, Roz (Lynn Whitfield), and teenage sister, Cisely (Meagan Good), into emotional turmoil.

In 1926, young siblings Marty and Carol witness their jealous father shoot their philandering mother.

Except for a well - staged scene depicting the attack on the marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the best scenes in «Selma» are the small - scale ones: Oprah Winfrey (also one of the film's producers) as an bedraggled activist denied the opportunity to vote; a scene where King's wife, Coretta (Carmen Ejogo), confronts him about his philandering; a cameo involving the father (portrayed by that marvelous actor Henry G. Sanders) of a murdered man in Selma.

It's a classic dysfunctional family comedy - drama in many respects, with every single family member of the central Jacobs family dealing with some sort of personal trouble: older sister Dana (Slate) with misgivings about her engagement to Ben (Jay Duplass), which she channels into an affair with an old college friend, Nate (Finn Wittrock); younger sister Ali (Abby Quinn) with a rebellious nature that leads her into all - night clubbing and increasingly adventurous drug use; and their on - the - outs parents, Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), the stagnation of their marriage only magnified when Ali discovers her father indulging in his own philandering.

dramedy about a philandering husband (Christopher MacDonald) who unknowingly cheats on his wife (Talia Balsam) by sleeping with the same woman (Dreama Walker) as their son (John Magaro), only to learn that one of them is the father of her daughter (Rainn Williams).

Her father was an acclaimed filmmaker, and her mother Lillian (Candice Bergen) was his muse for a time, before his philandering ways got in the way of their marriage.