Sentences with phrase «wife character who»

It's kind of the They Live sequel nobody was particularly clamouring for, with a wife character who's mostly a mindless nurturer without the Rosemary pathos.

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The scene helps bring context and backstory to a character who wasn't at the forefront of 2012's «Avengers» as audiences are introduced to Hawkeye's wife (Linda Cardellini), who has a baby on the way, and two children.

Not unlike Wolfe, his satire of the modern world's oversized egos occasionally turns his characters into cartoons (Yount's wife is a socialite who is selfish to absurdity.

I admire the character of people like Romney and Obama, who seem to have been faithful to their wives.

His wife urged him to visit a famous monastery, and late in June he did so, accompanied by Vladimir Solovyev, who may have been a source for both the character and the ideas of Alyosha.

The leading character is Mrs. Turpin who is a good woman, a church worker, a friend of the poor and homeless, and a good wife to her husband, Claud.

In the movie Memento (released in 2001) the central character, Leonard Shelby, sustains a blow to the head from an intruder who has already raped and killed Shelby's wife.

There's a scene in the film where Krasinski's character and Emily Blunt's character (who are husband and wife in the film as well as real life), share a romantic moment together as they both wear one earbud, and listen to a song — JUST LIKE JIM AND PAM DID.

Prophet Muhammad, a revolutionary character, who fought wars, ran a city as a mayor, had many wives and children, lived a very remarkable life as a self proclaimed Prophet.

Ian Fleming, E.C.Bentley, Elizabeth Daly, James Ellroy, Harlan Coben and Pete Dexter are amongthe mainstays of mayhem who've woven golf into their plots, while James Y.Bartlett, Conor Daly, Malcolm Hammer, John Logue, Keith Miles and thehusband - and - wife team of Aaron and Charlotte Elkins have all found enoughintrigue in the game for continuing series and characters.

He is a tough character, tough on himself, on his party and understandably on members of the IRA, who bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton paralysing his wife, Margaret.

Sara - Igbe, who later addressed the crowd, described the former first lady as a woman of unquestionable character and decried the action of the EFCC against the wife of the former President.

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The movie speaks to Padakoune in a character of solid ladies who happens to be the second wife to an old Indian Peshwa Bajirao (Ranveer Singh).

It's no surprise that after his character Dodge gets abandoned by his wife (Nancy Carell), he bumps into Penny (Keira Knightley), who is just the kind of space cadet who would benefit from a grounding force in her life... especially when the world is going to end.

Lots of great characters, such as cheating wife Quinn who actually plays a sympathetic and vulnerable part, the gutsy, newly voluptuous matriarch played by dishy Jane Fonda, and the manboy next door whom eldest sister Wendy has to forgive herself for ditching years ago after their car accident left him brain - damaged.

The weakest character is the engineer's wife, who is a real «drag» on any positive energy in most any episode she appears.

His Massoud Amir Behrani is an Iranian immigrant who, with wife Nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo) and son Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout) fled the Ayatollah's for reasons carefully distributed in the film's running character development.

To Mr. Stone's credit he doesn't shy away from the character's omnisexual appetites even if he doesn't allow Mr. Leto to cut loose like Rosario Dawson, who plays Alexander's wildcat wife, Roxane.

It casts an increasingly hypnotic spell, thanks in no small measure to Wright — a fearless actress (and the real - life wife of writer - director Ruscio) who brings this sometimes despicable, often heartbreaking character to life with every atom of her being.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

It is a glorious refreshment to spend time with characters who aren't twenty - something eye bait, someone's virtuous, whiny wife or other reductive archetypes.

The following year, Heiskanen joined the cast of Aleksi Salmenperä's sensitive character study A Man's Job (Miehen Työ) as the clinically depressed wife of a man who signs on to work for an escort service.

Paul's real - life wife, Oscar - winning actress, Jennifer Connelly («A Beautiful Mind»), convincingly portrays Darwin's wife Emma and gives us the antagonist character of the «person of faith,» who expressed her doubts about Charles» work from the onset.

And there's ever - reliable Sydney Pollack, who has become one of my favorite character actors («Husbands and Wives,» «Eyes Wide Shut,» «The Sopranos»).

He helps Jake Gyllenhaal's character, Tony Hastings get revenge on the parochial group who killed his wife and daughter, determined to exact justice on evil.

As the wife of a white man, thrown in jail while pregnant, a mother of small children, who becomes the driving force behind changing archaic laws that forbid a white man bedding down with a black woman, Negga virtually disappears into the character.

At the start you have the main character, a man called James, who receives a letter from his wife.

The unusually well - defined cast of characters includes a family of thieves living in the mountains in southwest France — a widower and grandfather named Victor (Ivan Desny), his eldest son Ivan (Didier Bezace), Ivan's wife Mireille (Fabienne Babe), and Ivan and Mireille's son Justin (Julien Riviere)-- as well as Ivan's kid brother Alex (Auteuil), who has rebelled against his family by becoming a cop in a Lyons suburb.

Who can forget the iconic dancing sequence at a flamboyant dinner between Travolta's character and Uma Thurman, who plays the mob boss's sexy and dangerous wiWho can forget the iconic dancing sequence at a flamboyant dinner between Travolta's character and Uma Thurman, who plays the mob boss's sexy and dangerous wiwho plays the mob boss's sexy and dangerous wife?

James, the main character, visits Silent Hill seeking the truth regarding a letter he receives from his late wife who died three years ago.

The film is a quietly simmering character study about an immigrant named Abel Morales (Isaac) and his wife, Anna (Jessica Chastain), who attempt to grow their business under the shadow of an imminent criminal indictment and physical assaults on the company's drivers, presumably orchestrated by Morales» rivals.

Stellan Skarsgard, as an intimidating but seemingly earnest Russian crime boss who desperately wants to get his family out of Russia, practically steals the whole film, and top - notch support work is provided by the likes of Naomie Harris as McGregor's loyal wife and reluctant partner - in - espionage, Damian Lewis as a (seemingly) trustworthy British operative, and Jeremy Northam as a shady character who may be playing both sides of the fence.

Kumail Nanjiani («Silicon Valley»), plays a character named Kumail Nanjiani in a story based on his relationship to Emily V. Gordon (played by Zoe Kazan and called Emily Gardiner in the film), who is now his wife and the co-screenwriter of the smart, touching, heartfelt and very funny film.

She takes of her mentally ill twin brother (Harold Perrineau, «Lost») and is a den mother of sorts to her employees — Carrie Preston («The Good Wife»), Judy Reyes («Scrubs»), Jenn Lyon and Karrueche Tran — who, like Nash's character, are strong, willful and complicated.

It also casts characters directly from the Big Book Of Clichés: the sergeant on the verge of retirement (Aaron Eckhart), the guy about to get married (Ne - Yo), the tough - as - any - man female soldier (Michelle Rodriguez), the guy with a pregnant wife, the guy who may go crazy at any moment... and so on.

The Real World vet, whose credits include Suits and Zero Hour, will play the wife of Chandler's character, who acts as the caretaker of the family.

On one level, the film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), trots out a very familiar sort of action - hero origin story: Victimized by violent crime in a cyberpunk future, main character Grey Trace (Logan Marshall - Green) vows to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

The film follows a drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as he comes into the orbit of the magnetic title character Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Dodd's wife (Amy Adams), who have organzied a coterie of followers around Dodd's philosophical approach to life.

That includes Churchill's relationships with his savvy, steadfast wife Clementine (Kristin Scott Thomas), who rightly views his ministry partly as a tribute to her and the rest of the family, and his badgered but beloved secretary (Lily James, playing a composite character), who it turns out has a private reason for worrying about Calais and Dunkirk.

If there is one character who could earn our admiration, it's Wharton who tragically lost his wife and son before the story begins.

The doctor's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife, Elizabeth Marston (Rebecca Hall), and their lover, Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote), who were two empowered women who defied convention.

Enter Jane Chase (Shue, playing a character apparently named after Tarzan's commonlaw wife and for her function in the film's second half), a student at the college where Dr. Phillip teaches who's there through some kind of ill - fated scholarship program rewarding legendarily bad test scores.

Paul Schrader blends lethargic self - referentiality with anemic political jabs in The Walker, a murky, lead - footed character study - cum - murder mystery concerning Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson), a D.C. dandy who spends his days and nights escorting politicos» wives around town and dishing dirt with them over games of canasta.

As for Day, who worked with first - time feature director Richie Keen on the TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's not that his performance was weak, but rather that I just didn't care about his character at all (despite the fact that he was given an overdue pregnant wife and young daughter as justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoff).

Smith was originally rumored to be considering playing the character of Django, a slave who embarks with Schultz on a mission to free Django's wife, who is working as a slave in the house of sadistic plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Watch how Gere's character commits fraud in order to deceive his wife Ellen (Susan Sarandon, as good as always), his french mistress Julie (Laetitia Casta), and even his daughter (Brit Marling), who also happens to be his chief accountant.

Maggie's Plan (R for profanity and sexuality) Greta Gerwig plays the title character in this romantic comedy about a woman who has second thoughts about having a baby with a married professor (Ethan Hawke) three years after stealing him from his wife (Julianne Moore).

Here's a character who's not defined as a wife, as a mother.

Amos (relative unknown Boyd Holbrook, terrific)-- the lone survivor — along with Owen (Jacob Lofland from Mud, here equally as strong)-- a boy who has lost his father — and Diane (Elizabeth Banks, quite fine)-- the wife of the mine manager — form the three main characters around whom swirls the town's drama.