Sentences with phrase «whose father»

Everyone Else writer - director Maren Ade is underway on Toni Erdmann, another film about a strained relationship, this time focusing on woman whose father believes she has lost her sense of humor and proceeds to bombard her with jokes... John Travolta and Ethan Hawke will team with Ti West on In a Valley of Violence, «a revenge Western film set in the 1890s.»

Extremely Loud follows the story of a high - functioning autistic boy whose father (played by Tom Hanks) dies when the towers collapse.

Teaming up with Colin Farrell (again) and Nicole Kidman (a first), Lanthimos sculpts a disturbing tale of a highly respected cardiologist who nurtures a strange relationship with a young boy, whose father died on his operating table.

The leader of the gang, Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund), a tattooed ruffian whose father (John Goodman) is also his drug boss, is always one step behind his new and novice enemy.

Margin Call is the breakthrough work of J.C. Chandor, a 37 - year - old commercial director whose father worked for and brought home friends from Merrill Lynch for 40 years.

Michael Corrente directs this coming - of - age tale, written by the Farrelly brothers, about a delinquent teenager whose father sends him to prep school.

They report to managing editor Ben Bradlee, Jr. (John Slattery), whose father figured prominently in the Watergate - themed «All the President's Men.»

Writer - director J.C. Chandor, whose father toiled for Merrill Lynch, makes an impressive debut by focusing the action on a 24 - hour period that starts with staff layoffs.

The story centers on a teenage girl whose father dies in a car crash.

Zendaya (whose father is African - American) is not the only actor of color who appears in the circus, but she is more or less the only one who gets to speak, and even then it's only in the context of a budding romance with Carlyle.

Also feeling the disaster's repercussions is teen Owen (Jacob Lofland from «Mud»), whose father was killed in the accident.

In Hong Kong, Lara finds Lu Ren (Daniel Wu, «Into the Badlands»), a ship captain whose father took her father to the island, and she pays him to follow their path.

Duke played Dwight, a high school football star whose father moves out of town.

But Sebastian is initially more interested in pursuing another virgin, Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon), who's just published an article in Seventeen magazine declaring that she won't have sex before marriage and whose father has coincidentally just become the school's headmaster.

Acknowledging that his own left - wing political agenda informed part of the film's narrative, Liman, whose father was an interrogator in the Iran - Contra trial, praises the perqs of studio filmmaking (while toning down the anti-Universal sentiments he expressed to the media last year), illustrates the importance of directing a French crew in their native tongue, laughs at how coveted the «f» word was by the actors (the film was allowed only one because of the PG - 13 rating), and so on.

The winner was Megan Henley of California, whose father grew up in Kansas City.

Ostensibly a remake / reimagining / updating of Hitch's own Shadow of a Doubt, Stoker centers on a young pubescent girl, whose father has recently died under «mysterious» circumstances.

Jodelle Ferland stars as a young babysitter of a nine - year - old boy whose father was killed years earlier in the same house their still living in.

Twelve years ago Christopher Buckley — whose father, William F., has become synonymous with postwar conservative philosophy — published Thank You for Smoking, a rip - roaring satire of Washington spin doctors.

He proceeds to set up base camp at a broken - down farmhouse, where he stays with a family whose father has gone missing.

Next up, we see Morgan casually threatening a young man whose father has presumably died; it looks like the poor boy's mother is grieving in a nearby cemetery at the 00:33 mark.

I pulled myself together and explained that my father was deceased and my story was based on Papio, a boy whose father immigrated to the U.S. and was being raised by women in a village.

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

Dobkin, whose father was a lawyer, spent a number of years in pursuit of this opportunity to prove himself as adept at serious subjects as silly ones.

His aviation skills and reputation for sailing close to the wind lead to an approach from Schafer, a CIA agent (or possibly a composite of several) played by Domhnall Gleeson (whose father, actor Brendan Gleeson, resembles the stocky real Seal much more than sleek Tom Cruise does).

Yes, the very same Henson whose father created the Muppets.

Instead, it's about Nick Talman (Adrian Brody), whose father is being sought by the FBI and whose ill - gotten gains he chooses to invest in a unique startup; Phil Rask (Martin Freeman), the FBI agent who's got Talman's father in his sights; Izzy Morales (Otmara Marrero), the tech whiz behind a new online currency, and Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi), the number two man in Miami's preeminent Haitian gang.

Her first major role in a feature film sees her playing Abbie, a teenager whose father returns from an extended absence and causes havoc for her, her mum and her step - father.

This time it's the mild mannered Stu who's tying the knot, a plot necessity that takes the form of a beautiful Asian American woman (Jamie Chung) whose father despises Stu and insists on holding the wedding in his native Thailand.

Glimpses of Desmond's childhood establish him as one of two fight - prone brothers whose father (Hugo Weaving) is an alcoholic World War I veteran.

The film centers on Alison Miller, whose father is in jail, while her mother had left when she was young.

brightcove.createExperiences -LRB--RRB-; Based on Jonathan Safran Foer's sophomore novel (following Everything Is Illuminated, which was filmed by Liev Schriber in 2005), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the story of Oskar, whose father is killed in the Twin Tower attacks.

Even without the onscreen presence of Globe deputy managing editor Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery), whose father famously steered the Washington Post through Watergate, «All the President's Men» would be the obvious touchstone here.

Miyazaki, whose father worked in the aviation industry, shares some of his hero's naiveté, I think.

The story follows Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson), whose father (Bill Nighy) tells him, at the age of 21, that the men in...

«Once there was a young prince whose father, the king of the East, sent him down into Egypt to find a pearl...» Malick!

The promise is of Wakanda itself — symbolized in a brief, but powerful flashback to a younger T'Chaka (played in his prime by Atandwa Kani, whose father, John Kani, portrays the older T'Chaka both here and in Civil War) checking in on a covert intelligence mission in the United States.

Day - Lewis plays Gerry Conlon, a wrongly accused suspect in the Guildford Four bombing case whose father is imprisoned as well.

The only person who knows what happened is 14 - year - old Owen (Jacob Lofland), whose father died in the accident.

We have previously met King T'Challa (the startlingly handsome Chadwick Boseman), whose father was assassinated by a vengeful terrorist in Captain America: Civil Wars.

Most especially it looks at Sam (Emily Lloyd), a teen - age girl whose father was killed in Vietnam, and at Sam's Uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a Viet vet haunted by wartime memories.

Earlier this week, Emma Jones, 40, a civil servant whose father emigrated to the U.K. from Trinidad, sat in a salon having her hair done and talked about what it meant to have the royals welcome someone of black heritage into the family.

His lone friend since kindergarten is Robby, aka «Flake» (Sawyer Barth, «Bridge of Spies»), whose father collects firearms.

Josh (Ben Stiller) is a struggling documentary filmmaker married to Cornelia (Naomi Watts), a sometime documentary producer whose father, Leslie (Charles Grodin), is a legend in the field.

She's an awkward, underachieving, bullied and grieving teen whose father, Alex Murray (a bearded Chris Pine) disappeared four years prior leaving she, her mother, Kate (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) and gifted brother Charles Wallace, (Deric McCabe) to fend for themselves.

Maybe that's especially true for mutants whose father Reed (Stephen Moyer) works to prosecute mutants as a district attorney for the government's «Sentinel Services.»

There's also time for meeting back up with an old friend, in the shape of Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), whose father (Chris Cooper) runs Oscorp.

That future sounds very good to premed student Zurich, aka Z (Trevor Jackson), whose father dropped out of a frat, and who feels compelled to finish what dad couldn't.

Union stars as Shaun Russell, a working mother of two whose father was recently murdered under circumstances that point, however vaguely, toward his criminal past.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting appearance as Dodger in Comes a Horseman (1978); the star of that film was Jane Fonda, whose father, Henry, had been doubled by Farnsworth in The Tin Star (1957).