Sentences with phrase «whose death wish»

There is battered wife Valerie Barksdale (Hilary Swank), whose philandering, white - trash husband Donnie (Reeves) believes that the womanly concern Annie shows for Valerie is the start of an occultist brainwash; the bipolar Buddy Cole (Giovanni Ribisi), whose death wish ping - pongs between himself and acquaintances; and, eventually, the loved ones of the missing and presumed - dead Jessica King (Holmes).

With the assistance of his creations / sidekicks — a sardonic, suicidal, immortal rabbit (Steve Buscemi) whose death wish becomes an existential joke without a punch line, and a giant brain in a jar (Sean Hayes) with all the focus and fierce intelligence of a hyperactive puppy — Igor brings his masterwork to life.

Not exact matches

Prior to a Thursday screening of «Winchester,» a ghost story whose protagonist comes down on the pro-gun control side of the firearms violence debate, a smattering of multiplex attendees and I watched a trailer for the new «Death Wish» (opening March 2).

As per the Batman's wishes, Gotham believes the mysterious vigilante is responsible for the death of the city's admired district attorney Harvey Dent, whose swift physical and moral decline remains a well - kept secret.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.