Sentences with phrase «story of a family tragedy»

Not exact matches

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

Although it bears traces of the conventional family drama, in its story of two estranged sisters — one a chaotic boozehound at the sharp end of a tragedy, the other a buttoned - up scientist who can't communicate with her son — its focus is much grander.

The blog was born out of the ashes of a family tragedy (click here to read my story — I am told you will need tissues).

It's a tale of family connections, tragedies, and triumphs, and easily one of the most heartwarming stories to ever grace the small screen.

These criminals also use stories of severe life circumstances, tragedies, deaths in the family, injuries to themselves, or other hardships to keep their victims concerned and involved in their schemes.

The story this time around finds the magical Mary (to be played this time by Emily Blunt) returning 25 years after she brightened the Banks family's lives to find that grown children Michael (Ben Whishaw) and Jane (Emily Mortimer) are having fresh issues involving tragedy and a serious lack of sparkle in depression - era London.

But he also tells a harrowing story of online harassment after a family tragedy, as well as a community of people who are literally allergic to electromagnetism and must be isolated from all computers and devices.

For Yance Ford is also telling the story of his family — not just how the tragedy tore them apart, but who they were beforehand.

With the Good Dinosaur we get the story of a young fearful dino named Arlo who gets swept away from his family after a tragedy and tries to find his way back home.

A blackly comic and insidiously sly love story in the unforgiving underworld of mob families and freelance criminals, Prizzi's Honor plays like The Godfather stripped of its Shakespearean dimensions of underworld royalty and tragedy.

Lumet saddles Kym with a family - tragedy back story that wouldn't be out of place in a daytime soap opera, and at least one scene — when a comic scene suddenly turns hushed and somber when the father is reminded of this tragic event — rings false.

Yet I imagine the story speaks to untold numbers of families who have suffered — and continue to suffer — from unsolved tragedies involving loved ones.

Kenneth Lonergan's bittersweet story of grief and personal frustration in Manchester by the Sea paints a picture of a bleak America socked in with crappy weather, a stagnant community, and a family unable to break loose from an unimaginable tragedy.

Directing with an even more restless energy than he showed in Kings and Queen, Desplechin sketches out a family tragedy, the untimely death of a first - born, that precedes the story by decades and then only overtly references it a few times, even as the shadow of that death hovers over the film: in the cancer that family matron Junon (Catherine Deneuve) has been diagnosed with, in the fragility of her teenage grandson Paul (Emile Berling), and in the odd sibling dynamics that have caused eldest daughter Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) to, in effect, legally separate herself from her brother Ivan (Mathieu Amalric, in a mesmerizingly manic - depressive performance).

Left in the wings to this questionably inspirational angle of the story are the families affected by the tragedy, the conflict between continuing the program and canceling it out of respect, and the guilt of the survivors.

It is the story of a little girl, used to a comfortable life in Mexico until tragedy strikes and she is forced, along with her family, to leave her home and her country an move to America.

Settled in the 1880s, this 30,000 - acre ranch has passed from generation to generation.Our fictionalized story is filled with clean romance, family tragedy, redemption and a look at the effects of addiction on the children of the addicted.From dysfunction to the ideal, two families collide and love blooms amid a bird's eye view of the 21st Century cowboy... Under A Prairie Sky - Clean Amish and Cowboy Romance Sadie Hershberger never thought she would leave the quiet Amish community of Quarryville, Pennsylvania to cross unknown terr...

In a story told through simple, elegant poetry, 15 - year - old Billie Jo fights to hold on to her dreams in the face of family tragedy and the crushing hardships of the dust - bowl years in Oklahoma.

As a ghost writer, I've helped many people tell their stories, and whether it was a personal triumph from tragedy, family history, a «behind the scenes» account of events, or even a creative work of fiction, the words and the voice of the author always remain recognizable as their own.

Set against the backdrop of a school shooting, the story reveals the tragedy of the loss of a child through inexplicable violence and the related impacts on marriage, family and community (Peggy C).

One Summer, a giant departure from his adventure genre, is a story about love, family and moving forward in the face of tragedy.

Set in Lost Lake, New York, a gritty Adirondack town, the book tells the story of Gary and Susan Hazen and the tragedy that befalls their family one fateful winter.

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It was a mix of a love story, an incredibly close family, tragedy, triumph, and unexpected turns....

No One Writes Back exemplifies a lot of what's terrific about Dalkey's Library of Korean Literature: It's ostensibly the story of a man compelled by a family tragedy (unnamed until late in the novel) to wander purposelessly, accompanied by his aging and blind dog, Wajo, sending letters to everyone he meets.

But more than an exploration of the mysteries of faith, it's also the unforgettable story of one family's struggle against tragedy.

Or if your credit score has fallen because of a unique hardship or family tragedy, lenders want to know the whole story because they may decide that your hardships do not reflect upon your true financial responsibility.

Watch Dogs tells the story of Aiden Pearce, a brilliant hacker whose criminal past led to a violent family tragedy.

The story of Watch Dogs centers around Aiden Pearce, a hacker bent on revenge and inflicting his own brand of justice after a violent family tragedy and this narrative should lend itself perfectly to the big screen.

Waller's Resistance Domination Secret is a video trilogy loosely based on the three tragedies by Aeschylus that tell the story of king Agamemnon's return from Troy and all the dramas that this brought to his family in Mycenae.