Sentences with phrase «plays deadbeat»

Hugh Jackman, recently outed as a close pal of Rupert Murdoch, plays deadbeat dad Charlie who, in need of cash, offloads his estranged pubescent son (Dakota Goyo) to relatives, but then bonds with the kid during a summer hiatus on the fight circuit.

(In Over The Top, Sylvester Stallone similarly plays a deadbeat dad who must win back his son and the title.)

Chandler grows some scruff and shaggy hair to play the deadbeat dad to Miles Teller's character.

Not exact matches

Since the 1970s the academics Charlie Lewis and Michael E Lamb, among others, have challenged stereotypical and one - dimensional portrayals of fathers as «deadbeat dads» or «play partners» incapable of the serious business of rearing a child.

The adult hero, played by Jackman, is clearly meant to be devilish, but just comes off as a deadbeat with a bad haircut.

Bob Hoskins plays a Glasgow loan shark who has raised an orphaned Chinese boy to be a lethal fighter, a weapon against deadbeats.

There is the raging sulkhead played by Moretz, and there is Elizabeth's deadbeat brother, Roger (Jonny Lee Miller), not sure what to make of his inquisitive 10 - year - old, David (Gully McGrath).

Hill plays yet another deadbeat millennial, and this time it doesn't really work.

Charged with taking his 8 - year - old grandson Billy (a perfectly cast Jackson Nicoll) from Nebraska to live with the boy's deadbeat father in North Carolina, Zisman makes frequent stops to do things like hit on women (at a male strip club at one point), play bingo, shoplift, and generally get in trouble.

Swallowing his Mexican accent so that he sounds like Pee - Wee Herman's masculine bellhop from Pee - Wee's Big Adventure, the overexposed, generally unpleasant Gael García Bernal plays Elvis — no, not that Elvis (the pic's cheeky title and scattershot allusions notwithstanding), but a sailor who takes his leave of the Navy and tracks down his deadbeat dad, David (William Hurt, who could only be Bernal's biological father in the same metaverse where Marc Anthony sired Dakota Fanning), now a pastor living in Corpus Christi.

Paul Walter Hauser, who plays the big ol' deadbeat Eckardt in a breakout performance in I, Tonya, and who, when we speak, is wearing a backward Chance the Rapper hat, a blazer, and a festive T - shirt depicting Clark Griswold and family (’ t is the season!)

But even though characters like deadbeat programmer Michael Papageorge (Myles Paige) and unctuous master of ceremonies Pat Henderson (Gerald Peary) are clearly comic figures, Bujalski isn't playing at Christopher Guest - like caricature.

Tired of playing by other people's rules, the widowed single mom guards her new freedom by keeping her deadbeat husband alive... in name only.

That's how Matt Harding, a self - confessed 32 - year - old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames, got to travel to some of the coolest places in the world, from Brunei to Tokyo to Namibia.

You play as the new wave of â $ ˜ Deadbeat Heroesâ $ ™.

Not fair play and the world will see the US for the deadbeats that they are.

Almost EVERY deadbeat tenant plays that card, regardless of how nice your unit is.