Sentences with phrase «sets of dysfunctional families»

Now comes the hard part for Paul and Veblen: dealing with two sets of dysfunctional families and figuring out to create a new family of their own.

Not exact matches

Winter's Bone (R for profanity, drug use and violence) Dysfunctional family drama, set in the Ozarks, about a spunky 17 year - old's (Jennifer Lawrence) perilous trek through the Ozark Mountains in search of her meth - dealing father who has jumped bail after putting up their house as collateral.

Subplots such as Fred's troubles with his girlfriend, Willy (Higgins (Evan Almighty) playing Santa's right - hand elf) trying to get together with a lovely fellow helper (Banks, Invincible), Fred's friendship with a precocious African - American orphan (Thompson), and the unendurable dysfunctional family squabbles only add to the feeling that the script by Dan Fogelman (Cars) started with a kernel of inspiration and little knowledge of where to go with it once it is set up.

It's similar to, but not nearly as much of a comedy as that other «Sunshine» movie with an Albuquerque, New Mexico setting, Little Miss Sunshine, with its dysfunctional family anchored by the dryly quirky paternal Alan Arkin (Firewall, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing).

This Christmas (Unrated) Family skeletons aplenty come popping out of the closet during this holiday drama set during a dysfunctional African - American family's first reunion in Family skeletons aplenty come popping out of the closet during this holiday drama set during a dysfunctional African - American family's first reunion in family's first reunion in years.

Unlike most King works, this is an adventure fantasy epic that is for the most part not set in our real world, yet the premise — a young boy in a dysfunctional family who dreams of a violent fantasy world — is as King as it gets.

Love the Coopers (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and mature themes) Holiday comedy, set in Pittsburgh, about the hijinks which unfold when several generations of a dysfunctional family convene for their annual Christmas gathering.

Treeless Mountain (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in Seoul, about a six year - old girl (Hee - yeon Kim) taken out of school to care for her two year - old sister (Song - hee Kim) by their financially - struggling mother (Soo - ah Lee) who leaves them in the care of their selfish, alcoholic aunt (Mi - hyang Kim) so she can search for their deadbeat father.

Back at home for the funeral, he is reunited with his industrious older brother Paul (Corey Stoll, House of Cards), buttoned up married sister Wendy (Tina Fey, 30 Rock) and flaky, self - involved younger brother Philip (Adam Driver, Girls)-- all under the imperious eye of pop psychologist / author mother, Hilary (Jane Fonda), whose new set of boobs only adds to the dysfunctional family's impending group breakdown.

Besides the aforementioned Thompson ties, it fuses Dali surrealism, film noir (Beatty's corrupt mayor is modeled on John Huston's character in «Chinatown»), «Don Quixote» (for Alfred Molina's quixotic armadillo) «Star Wars» and «Apocalypse Now» (for a batty canyon chase set to «Ride of the Valkyries»), Peckinpah's «Ride the High Country» (for the dysfunctional family of mole varmints), and, most notably, Sergio Leone's famously over-the-top Westerns.

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.

Set in a multicultural school in West Yorkshire, this gritty dramedy explores the lives of students, teacheers, and families alike as they all try to get by in this dysfunctional, wild, wonderful world.

Four Christmases (PG - 13 for profanity and sexual humor) Dysfunctional family comedy, set in San Francisco, about an unhappily - married couple (Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon) forced to spend the holidays with several sets of relatives after their plans for an exotic getaway are ruined when the fog rolls in.

What sets Canin's story apart from other dysfunctional family novels is the awesome writing, the mid-plot switch of narrator augmented by the juxtaposition of Milo's superhuman intelligence and his addiction.

In retrospect, it is no surprise that during my return flight I struggled to enter the world of Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Blunt's debut set within a stilted, dysfunctional family household.

Due to years of experience working with children in various educational settings and my background of working with the addictive family system, I am able to be particularly successful with kids who are growing up around addiction, co-addiction and other dysfunctional environments.

Specialties are parenting / co-parenting, divorce and transitions, ADHD, depression, anxiety, balancing elderly parents, illness with family responsibilities, managing addiction or oppositional behavior of a child, setting healthy boundaries and changing dysfunctional family systems.