Sentences with phrase «uptight mother»

Fellow bandmate, Dick Diamonde (Du Toit Bredenkamp) was also born in the Netherlands and the series shows him reconciling the issues arising from his religious upbringing and his uptight mother with playing rock «n» roll music.

Instead we get only an uninflected love story that could have been written by anyone, though a few stray snippets of Nabokov's witty dialogue have been pasted in at arbitrary junctures, as when the heroine's uptight mother wonders whether the invention of the radio was part of a Jewish conspiracy.

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In contrast, here in Canberra, I often feel uptight bringing my children to sit down restaurants, and I know other mothers who have been «asked» to please «control» their child at coffee shops etc..

I'd like to report that a stay - at - home mother who's only job right now is to take care of her baby twenty - four hours a day is force feeding formula to her child because she's either too uptight or too selfish to offer herself.»

Boyle, with a dying mother and an appetite for prostitutes and confrontations, is forced to partner with uptight FBI agent Wendell Everett (Cheadle) to solve the case.

Kunis» uptight Amy gets Christine Baranski as the mother smothering her holiday spirit.

Terminally ill Earth mother Charlize Theron makes things easy for uptight business - dude Keanu Reeves in 2001's Sweet November, an appropriately maudlin remake of the 1968 tearjerker.

Among the newcomers to the cast, Christine Baranski is the clear standout as Amy's wealthy, uptight, and hypercritical mother, Ruth.

That leaves Arthur trapped between a rock and a bank account when his tycoon mother says he'll be cut off if he doesn't marry uptight Susan (Jennifer Garner), who can't hold a candle to the far more appealing Naomi (Greta Gerwig, a considerable step up in the cuteness department from Liza Minnelli).

PEACE, LOVE AND MISUNDERSTANDING Starring: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Jeffrey Dean Morgan Directed by: Bruce Beresford An uptight NYC lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.

comes on at first like a brittle, uptight alien, a New York professional always out on outskirts of the chummy warmth and busy hubbub while fending off her mother - in - law's pushing demands for a grandkid.

Maybe it was your father's gambling problem, or your mother's uptight way of controlling the household finances.