Sentences with phrase «role as a widow»

Also earning the highest Metascore of the festival, the film is a «tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie,» according to Owen Gleiberman of Variety, with a «remarkable performance» by Mary Kay Place in the title role as a widow who spends her days caring for others, including her drug - addicted son.

Liam Neeson was spotted on the London - based set on Thursday, reprising his role as widowed father Daniel with Thomas Brodie - Sangster, now 26, who played his onscreen son, Sam.

Not exact matches

They say Kennedy, who works for Republicans at the county elections board, was suggested by Schmitt's widow Lois, who took over Schmitt's role as the Massapequa Republican leader.

Widowed in 1934, she entered films in 1937, repeating her Broadway stage role as the gangster's mother in Dead End (1937).

The voyagers include a widow (Judi Dench), who is lost without her partner; a much divorced flirt (Celia Imrie); a sourpuss in need of a hip operation (Maggie Smith); a grizzled Don Juan (Ronald Pickup); a distinguished, gay former jurist (Tom Wilkinson); and a long - married couple, who have settled into fixed roles as aggressor (Penelope Wilton) and exasperated victim (Bill Nighy).

Ramsey has been cast as «a young beautiful widow and love interest to the role played by Wilson.»

The answer is two young children and no certain role beyond her responsibility as the widow in black at the state funeral.

Hamm represents a mostly obedient piece of software named Walter, who's been programmed to boost the flagging memory of Marjorie (the incomparable Lois Smith, reprising her stage role), an elderly widow in need of comfort as she struggles through early dementia.

Lucia Sardo nails her performance as the conflicted widow and mother, although she is limited by a relatively one - dimensional role.

In one of her most acclaimed roles of that period, as an emotionally - shattered widow in Kryzstof Kieslowski's Three Colurs: Blue (1993), her serene but subtly expressive face provided a mesmerising focal point which greatly magnified that film's power.

With acclaimed work in films like «In Bruges,» his role as Jack Mulligan, a politician entangled in the widow's plot, could net him a long overdue nomination.

It is arranged for Maria to take a job as a governess / nanny for a family near Salzburg «until September... to take care of seven children» - of the widowed Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, although Yul Brynner was originally considered for the role),

You might think the only thing missing from this culturally diverse group is a woman, but Haley Bennett (and her distractingly terrible hair dye) plays a key role as a recently widowed town person intent on revenge against the heartless robber - baron Bogue, played by a sneering Peter Sarsgaard.

Sadly one of these characters is not the one played by Pulp co-star Uma Thurman, as her role of a widowed record label owner is a far less interesting «girlfriend» part than Rene Russo's in the original film; as such, their rather protracted dance reunion isn't so much a highlight than a time - filler.

Robert Redford was named best actor for his role as a man adrift on a disabled boat in «All Is Lost,» and Cate Blanchett was selected best actress for her performance as a mentally unbalanced widow in Woody Allen's «Blue Jasmine.»

His second outing as director, however, sees him marry the role with that of actor in A Little Chaos, a 17th century period drama, which tells the story of lowly - widowed landscape gardener, Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet), who secures a contract to design one of the principal gardens at The Palace of Versailles.

Ted Levine, one of my favorite character actors, plays Sonya's protective commanding officer, Annabeth Gish is the widow of a landowner who discovers her husband's underworld activities after his death, Matthew Lillard and Emily Rios are reporters, and Catalina Sandino Moreno is Marco's wife, who plays a more central role in the story as it unfolds.

Consequently, surviving spouses experience a temporary rise in mortality risks and prevalence of depressive symptoms following the death of a spouse, but most display resilience and return to their prebereavement state as widowed persons learn how to overcome their loss, adjust to their new roles and responsibilities, and refrain from engaging in self - destructive behaviors (Byrne & Raphael, 1994; Lillard & Waite, 1995; Lichtenthal, Cruess, & Prigerson, 2004; Martikainen & Valkonen, 1996; Rendall et al., 2011; Stroebe et al., 2007; Waite, 1995).