Sentences with phrase «play about a dysfunctional family»
Tamara Jenkins dubs her own hyphenate intelligentsia yawp The Savages, casting Baumbach's Squid mom Laura Linney as Wendy Savage, a temp and frustrated writer submitting as the film opens her grant proposal for a new play about a dysfunctional family to various endowments.
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We are learning not only about chemical dependency but about codependency and the roles played by members of dysfunctional families.
The play is about a dysfunctional Irish family, living in a grotty London flat, who each day enact the same ludicrous farce detailing the supposed circumstances around the father's departure from Ireland.
Even better is the return of the guttural sound of The Blaster Beam, Craig Huxley's instrument so familiar to fans of «Star Trek: The Motion Picture» and «Dreamscape,» Given that much of the action is driven by dialogue and character, It says something about Trachtenberg's confidence in McCreary's musical storytelling ability that the whole opening plays only with score with score, setting up a highly dysfunctional nuclear family, locked in by doomsday.
In this underrated dramedy about one hell of a dysfunctional family, Carell plays Trent, Pam's (Toni Collette) scheming, cheating boyfriend.