Sentences with phrase «stars in this dysfunctional family»

In a World... (R for profanity and sexual references) Lake Bell wrote, directed and stars in this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated males.

Trucker (R for sexuality, profanity, drug use involving minors and sexual assault) Michelle Monahan stars in this dysfunctional family drama about a carefree truck driver forced to mature when her terminally ex-husband (Benjamin Bratt) can no longer care for their 11 year - old son (Jimmy Bennett).

Four - time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening stars in this dysfunctional family indie.

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Academy Award ® Winners Meryl Streep * and Julia Roberts ** star in the darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.

Max Greenfield (left), Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson star in «The Glass Castle,» about a dysfunctional family with an unpredictable dad who drinks and rules erratically.

Adding to a surprisingly busy day for both John Krasinski and Anna Kendrick news, John Krasinski will direct and star in The Hollars, an upcoming dysfunctional family drama, alongside Anna Kendrick.

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Rainbow Time, written, directed, produced and starring Linas Phillips, is a mess in picturing a dysfunctional family... Read More

Baumbach has assembled an all - star that includes Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, and Adam Sandler (in one of his best performances in years), to tell the story of a dysfunctional family who has to deal with an emotional crisis.

Harrelson, Naomi Watts and Brie Larson star in the film — based on the memoirs of Jeannette Walls — about a deeply dysfunctional family who wanders from state to state in order to escape the large debts they have incurred.

«The Glass Castle» Release Date: TBD Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Starring: Brie Larson, Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson and Max Greenfield Synopsis: A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

The story follows a dysfunctional family with a has - been TV star at the top who is stuck in his ways and moves in with his daughter, her girlfriend, and the child they're raising.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comfamily - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comFamily Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

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.

Star Wars has been mostly about the Skywalker family, and these 15 hilarious memes prove they might be the most dysfunctional family in the galaxy!

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.

Starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Kathryn Hahn and Corey Stoll, the adaptation of Jonathan Tropper «s novel will follow a dysfunctional family in which the father's death forces the four grown siblings to spend a week together in the house where they grew up for the first time in a decade.