Paterson cited «Hebrew psalm» that he said is something along the lines of «be cursed, but don't curse,» and said that while he and his wife felt cursed after
stories of their trouble marriage surfaced, «the last thing we tried to do was engage in the same conduct that we deplored in the way we were treated.»
Not exact matches
Even if fairies
stories tend to be formulaic - fairy is happy, fairy gets in
trouble, fairy gets out
of trouble and learns a lesson - this one introduces the bold - ish concept
of the sisters» bond rather than the usual
marriage plot.
Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Getting» Square), writer Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull
Story) and producer turned co-scribe Andy Patterson (Burning Man) adapt Eric Lomax's autobiography
of the same name into a consideration
of closure and catharsis, as focused on the juxtaposition
of the young Lomax's (Jeremy Irvine, Great Expectations) experiences in a Japanese prisoner -
of - war camp, working on the Thai - Burma Railway in cruel conditions, and the elder Lomax's (Colin Firth, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
troubles when attempting to cope, particularly on the occasion
of his
marriage to the sympathetic Patti (Nicole Kidman, Stoker) decades later.
And given the sad and
troubling details
of Harding's life
story, from a childhood scarred by abandonment and neglect and a steady diet
of verbal abuse through a
marriage filled with violence (which didn't stop even after the divorce), there's certainly a serious character study that could be told.
It was a great way to explore the
story of Ava, struggling to come to terms with a divorce after 25 years
of marriage and, as we discover, a tragedy from her place as well as
trouble with her adult daughter.
The debut collection
of an O. Henry Award - winning short -
story writer, Dogwalker assembles its cast from society's misfits: the disabled and the blind, the hapless and the
troubled, and all species
of mutants — including a giant slug that almost breaks up a
marriage, a preponderance
of three - legged dogs, and a family
of circus freaks who look remarkably like cats.
I've done some
stories like that myself (The Goddess
of Kitchen Avenue is about a
marriage in very deep
trouble).
Anne Morrow Lindbergh narrates the
story of the Lindberghs»
troubled marriage in all its triumph and tragedy.