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The film's title refers to the difficult years of China's Cultural Revolution, which Guo Pei's parents — a batalion leader in the People's Army, and her mother, a kindergarten teacher, whom we meet in the film — lived through.

They're a diverse group, ranging from Esteban Pedraza's highly personal «People I Know,» a technically accomplished introduction to his mother and best friend, to «The Guide,» by Shiv Tandan, which appears to be a straightforward tourism video until Tandan reveals a surprise in the last seconds of the film.

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At the same time, in Europe, the industries made a frontal tape which allowed the mother to open and close the disposable diaper without the hassle of ripping the film down.

Eve wrote a biography of her mother, Madame Curie, which was a worldwide bestseller in the 1930s and was adapted to make a Hollywood feature film in 1943.

In a recent interview with InStyle, Union — who is a stepmom to three boys from her husband, Dwayne Wade — opened up about a negative comment she received on the trailer for her new film Breaking In, in which she plays a mother.»

«s run time - which I thought was two hours, but it really seemed to be like four - seems devoted to a tertiary subplot in the art house Coherence, a film that lacks traditional narrative structure and drips with the ideas mother!

The most affecting moments in the film involve Snape, from his grisly death — which is obscured visually, but powerfully conveyed with sound — to a montage of memories that Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) witnesses showing the deep love Snape had for Harry's mother.

The film gives Harding partial control of her own, jaw - dropping story, from her early days in thrall to an abusive mother, to the domino - chain of associations which led to her rival Nancy Kerrigan being clubbed in the knee, when she left her Detroit practice rink in January of that Winter Olympics year.

Some of the lampooning is tacked - on like the non-idyllic portrayals of LA and NY, but «Mother's Day» is first and foremost a rabid exploitation movie and it drips an unbearably sickening atmosphere (the supernatural Queenie freeze - frame is a pulpy jump scare) which is the purpose of these films.

Tandy Cronyn's earliest film appearance was in the obscure agit - prop comedy Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition (1970); she has since been seen in such productions as All Night Long (1981), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), and the made - for - TV The Story Lady (1991), in which she co-starred with her mother, Jessica Tandy.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

The student's pesky mother also gets involved, in ways which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's seen a typical film noir, and the story turns into a rather backward - looking tale of sin and wrongdoing.

Against All Odds is an interesting but ultimately flawed remake of the film noir classic Out of the Past (which is paid homage to by casting the star of the original (Greer, The Big Steal) as the mother).

Bjorkman emphasizes the connection between Ingrid's private and public lives, most movingly in her last film for theaters, «Autumn Sonata,» in which she and Ullmann played mother and daughter.

In which case, his barrage of f - bombs and references to mothers named Martha feel a little too familiar, and just far enough behind the curve of what is being discussed in the cultural conversation that they don't land with the same merciless cruelty that made the previous film, well, if not better, then somehow more incisive.

My lingering problem is the amount of fluttering butterflies that the film creates, it paints a picture that any wedding you wish to have is possible, which is untrue, but I don't believe the film was about creating a realistic explanation, but more show the journey the parents make, but again, the journey only seems to consist of daddy, as esteemed actress Diane Keaton, who plays other Nina, plays a largely unimportant role, perhaps a traditional scenario calls for a father and his daughter, but the mother is as equally important.

The audio track is similarly excellent, especially considering the film's mixing of overlapping dialogue, raucous and noisy crowd scenes, and incidental music — much of which is provided by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

But writer - director - star Alice Lowe, who previously co-wrote and acted in Ben Wheatley's 2012 film Sightseers, takes prenatal terror in a new direction with Prevenge, in which an unborn child bids its expectant mother to commit a string of murders.

Director Josh Cooley, along with «Inside Out» filmmakers Pete Docter («Up,» «Monsters, Inc.») and Jonas Rivera («Up»), introduced the short, which revisits Riley, who is now 12 and the film deals with both her father and mother trying to figure out if this guy at their door is Riley's first date.

and this disappointed me Although Gosling gave it his best shot, I think it's his performance (although he's probably only doing what the director has told him to do) which pushes the film into parody at times and not KST's mother character as suggested by others.

The mother's elective surgery put up against young Annie's struggles with weight and race (in the film's only mawkish moment, the child wishes she could rip her skin off), compared to Elizabeth's shockingly vulnerable scene in which she asks an actor lover (Dermot Mulroney) to critique her naked body and contrasted with Michelle's compensatory indiscretion with a boy less than half her age (the exceptional Jake Gyllenhaal).

If the film can be said to centre on anything, it's on Louise's relationships with these two men, though it's actually an ensemble piece which finds ample room for her mother (Marisa Borini, Tedeschi's mother), an alcoholic artist (a well cast Xavier Beauvois), Ludovic's girlfriend and Nathan's parents.

Three years after he made that film (which dealt with marathon dancing contests in the Depression, not with cowboys), Dern's mother died while he was making «The King of Marvin Gardens,» one of his most admired films.

The stories were thought to be essentially truthful when Asia Argento adapted them and made this film, in which she stars as the boy's drug - abusing, mentally deranged mother.

The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where Gerwig was born; she attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.

And naturists Michael and Joanna (Robert Webb and Olivia Colman) want a back - to - Mother Earth ceremony, which sounds lovely, but they want to do it in the buff (as the actors gamely spend most of the film), which is... not.

The film does leave us with a strong sense of mother - child love, which overrides most of the horrors.

Opening Mother's Day weekend, Moms» Night Out struggled to find an audience in a little over 1,000 theaters and never really expanded any further than that, en route to a lackluster $ 10.4 million domestic gross, which probably doesn't bode well for the film's international prospects.

Meanwhile, young Mitsuko (who stars in the toothpaste ad that opens the film, the jingle for which echoes incessantly through the rest of the runtime) comes home to find that her mother has massacred a group of gangsters sent to kill her Yakuza boss father Muto (the familiar Jun Kunimura).

The character, which made her debut in 2015's Ant - Man, indicated she'd take on the mantle of The Wasp (which was previously held by her missing mother) in that film's post-credits scene.

If you've seen «Lady Bird,» which is an early awards favorite — on Thursday, the New York Film Critics Circle named it best film and gave Ronan the best actress award, and on Monday she picked up a Gotham Award — it might come as somewhat of a surprise that she's had such an idyllic relationship with her own mother.

The film, which stars Jennifer Lawrence, has already attracted attention after it released a gruesome poster — on Mother's Day, no less — featuring an illustration of Lawrence holding her own bloodied heart in her hands.

The film is based on Bob Mitchell «s 2008 book The Class Project: How To Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada's Infamous Bathtub Girls, which was adapted by Fabrizio Filippo and Adam Till.

The film nevertheless finds time for a mother - son chat on mortality, ruminations on life choices and a resurrection of the «Dollhouse» character Dawn Wiener as it covers four stories in which a lovable dachshund lives with a new owner.

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

But this year's slate also featured several films centered on relationships between older women and younger men: Hannah Fidel's A Teacher, which concerns an affair between a high school teacher and a student; Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard, in which Kristen Bell takes up with a teenage boy; and Two Mothers, in which Robin Wright and Naomi Watts are friends who each get with the other's teenage son.

This doesn't exhaust the film's cast of central characters — which also includes Min - min's excitable and superstitious brother, his equally vulgar wife, and Lili's mother — but it suggests the sort of displacements most of Yang's characters experience.

The series is created, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who is known for his work on feature films like «Mother and Child» and last year's «Albert Nobbs,» as well as television series such as HBO's «The Sopranos» and «Six Feet Under,» the latter of which has a similarly soap opera feel to it.

It's also about Harding's impoverished, redneck upbringing, which sees her battling an abusive mother and then an abusive husband, the film suggesting that she never had a chance with the US skating establishment.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

A working mother (Vera Farmiga) struggles to keep her family intact despite her cocaine addiction in Debra Granik's film, which won the Sundance Film Festival's 2004 best director award.

«Why mother stayed with father, I've always found a mystery,» Maja contemplates in her narration, which frames the film.

Tony's mother Leonor (a simmering Paulina Garcia) runs the dress shop underneath Jake's family home, both of which are owned by Jake's grandfather who's death incites the film.

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, The Shining, is a horror classic, which is no doubt why mother!

The film, which takes place during the fall of 2002 and the spring of 2003, consists of a series of brief episodes in which Lady Bird navigates the choppy waters of high school friendships, dating, and a volatile relationship with her mother.

Gerwig also wrote the film, which follows a teenage girl (Saoirse Ronan) and her turbulent relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf) during her senior year in Sacramento, 2002.

The failures of the film are not in the performances of the actors, but rather in the script, which presents a conclusion that left me frustrated, given the way it turns a portion of its focus from a grieving and determined mother to the redemption of a racist and abusive police officer.

A second trailer has surfaced independent war - torn drama TWICE BORN (or VENUTO AL MONDO) Penelope Cruz leads the film, directed by Italian actor - turned - filmmaker Sergio Castellitto, as a single mother attempting to put some demons to rest when she returns with her young son to Sarajevo, the home which she shared with his father (played by Emile Hirsch) before his death during the harrowing Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.

Unlike those other two James films, which focus as much or more on James's killer, this film is more of a straight biopic, as, after a opening sequence establishing a robbery gone wrong and James's mother lying sick in bed, various characters relate the major events of James's life in 15 minute episodes.