Sentences with phrase «teenage son through»

As for the film, it's a modest little charmer about a middle - aged housewife re-connecting with her brooding teenage son through their shared love of music.

The French - Belgian - Senegalese - German - Lebanese co-production focuses on a Congolese bar singer who goes on a frantic search for her teenage son through the streets of Kinshasa, Congo.

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He may have sat with you for ours working through problems n your marriage or difficulties with a teenage son.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

On a chilly afternoon last October, as my son and I walked through a bustling shopping district in Xi'an, China, we passed a group of teenage girls who were chattering loudly in Mandarin.

I was discreetly informed through my husband that my in laws considered this inappropriate because they still had teenage sons in the house.

Especially through the teenage years, it's really easy for your son to slip into a world where he is the only one that exists.

As the sons age, we go through their teenage dating problems, marriage and careers.

To begin with, how painful is it to watch actors as intelligent as Naomi Watts and Robin Wright mug their way through the story of two hard - bodied middle - aged Australian besties hitting the sack with one another's teenaged sons?

Getty Senior, however, had warmed to Paul (played here by Charlie Plummer - no relation), Gail's charming teenage son, whom he'd take on walks through the Colosseum while holding forth on what it meant to be «a Getty».

Budding landscaper Jules (Moore) and determined career gal Nic (Bening) are a Los Angeles lesbian couple with two teenage kids — daughter Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and son Laser (Josh Hutcherson)-- who they conceived through a sperm bank.

«Mommy» Shot in a rare 1:1 (square) ratio, Xavier Dolan «s mother - son drama reflects through its constrained frame the constricted life of a working - class matriarch (Anne Dorval) as she attempts to keep her violent and emotionally volatile teenage son (Antoine - Olivier Pilon) from being institutionalized again.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, Hongi, a Maori chieftain's teenage son, must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones.

Hongi, a Maori chieftain's teenage son, must avenge his father's murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery.

Wanting her son to understand how to treat women while finding his way through the world, she enlists the help of his teenage best friend played by Fanning who is overconfident and promiscuous to a fault.

There he reluctantly takes charge of Joe's teenage son, Patrick (Lucas Hedges)-- and there we learn, through gradual flashbacks that overlap like waves on a beach, what happened in Lee and Randi's past.

Even as Walter establishes a rapport with his younger son Henry (Riley Thomas Stewart) through the puppet, though, his teenage son Porter (Anton Yelchin)-- a smart but angry kid who keeps a list of Post-Its enumerating all the traits of his father of which he wishes to rid himself, and finds himself hired by valedictorian Norah (Jennifer Lawrence) to pen her forthcoming graduation commencement speech — remains aloof.

The film begins with a mercy killing: Husband Paul (Joel Edgerton), wife Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), and teenage son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) move cautiously through the cabin, rifle at the ready, their path lit by a flashlight attached to the barrel.

Communities that once shunned the sport now welcome it with open arms; middle - aged women and their teenage sons line up for driver autographs; and traveling, ex-World Rally Championship engineers now drift through the Subaru paddock helping Smith's program run better.

Parents exhibiting gentle compassion as their son or daughter go through their difficult teenage years also helps.