Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
You'll laugh because it's not your family. You'll cry because it is.
Gênero : Comédia, Drama
Runtime : 1H 35M
Director : Harold Ramis
Escritor : Al Franken
Sinopse
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?
Loucas e mimadas, Maureen e seu excêntrico irmão Howdy decidem rastrear e conhecer sua mãe distante, enquanto o drama de relacionamentos disfuncionais, condições climáticas desastrosas e um segredo familiar obscuro acontecem.
Actor Val Kilmer narrates this powerful film exploring the methamphetamine epidemic that's ravaged blue-collar America. Putting a human face on the problem, filmmaker Justin Hunt reveals the damage being done by this rural drug of choice, as well as the steps being taken by communities across the nation to wipe out the scourge. From Wyoming to New Mexico, Montana and Oregon, American Meth paints a picture of both devastation and hope.
Uma equipe está gravando um filme e tentando fazer um boneco flutuando em um rio ser convincente o suficiente para parecer uma pessoa morta. Sem sucesso e frustrada, a diretora pede a um rapaz que fizesse o papel do corpo, e mesmo relutante por conta da poluição do rio, ele aceita. Dias depois aparece no pescoço do rapaz uma estranha dor, e mesmo que ele busque várias formas diferentes de resolver ninguém parece ter sucesso.
Uma juventude transviada.
A reencarnação de um Deus Antigo.
Há rancores que se ocultam nas luzes da noite.
Conservadora e supersticiosa, Kay tenta levar uma vida normal com o novo namorado Louis. Isso até Sweetie, sua irmã despreocupada, voltar para casa depois de um tempo fora, expondo as raízes podres de sua família e colocando pressão no relacionamento de Kay e Louis.
Neste filme seguimos Laura (Fischer), que perdeu o marido recentemente e precisa de cuidar do seu filho sozinha. Para complicar mais as coisas, Laura acaba por se aproximar de um homem, com quem teve um relacionamento no passado – o marido da sua irmã.
O jovem François recolhe e revende garrafas para os comerciantes. Depois de sequestrar uma menina chamada Mado, François a leva para morar com ele no sótão da cada dos pais. Apesar das circunstâncias, nasce um relacionamento cada vez mais reconfortante.
Embora suscetível a ataques violentos, o empresário Barry Egan é um homem tímido que leva uma vida solitária e tranquila. No entanto, vários eventos ocorrem e mudam sua vida, como apaixonar-se por uma colega de trabalho da sua irmã, Lena Leonard. Porém, o romance é ameaçado quando Egan é vítima de um chantagista.
Royal e sua esposa Etheline tiveram três filhos muito diferentes entre si, mas igualmente bem-sucedidos. Quando Etheline resolve se casar com outro, o irresponsável e excêntrico Royal resolve lutar por seu amor reunindo toda a família.
O pai de família tem um caso. Isso afeta todos os membros da família.
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
A disturbing movie about the portuguese underworld of prostitution.
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
The Internationally award winning documentary film from Norway follows a 33 year old woman's life prior to serving a 7 year prison sentence for killing her own 66 year old father. He sexually abused her from she was 6 - 17 years old. He also abused her sister who became a drug addict and died of an overdose at the age of 38. The film brings us back to her childhood and describes how sexual abuse can go on for years without anyone is reacting to it. "My beloved child" deals with issues like physical, emotional and sexual abuse, domestic problems, suicide, drug issues, societies responsibility, individual responsibility, post effects/late consequences of childhood traumas. The films is primarily made - and edited - for children and youths, in order for them to understand and put words to abuse.
Desperate to get out from under her overprotective mother, a home-schooled teen runs off to live with her dad, and forms a bond with his much-younger boyfriend.
The film examines the painful relationship between fathers and sons through the eyes of one family. Four generations of men are featured in the film. Father to Son deals with the conflict between generations and their subjective memories, and the way different methods of raising children pass from one generation to the next. How often and to what extent do we repeat the behavioural patterns of our fathers; can we change or break these patterns or is repeating them inescapable, and how many generations are needed for change to occur? Are the values we have inherited from our fathers still valid in the modern world? One of the leading themes of this film is the sensitivity of a man and a boy, and its preservation and suppression.
A rough but beautiful documentary film about the crisis of a man in his forties and his desire for a better life; its a story of parenthood, alcohol, Finnish man and his desire for love. It is also an unusually intimate depiction of the relationship between the father and his son. Despite the seriousness of the topic the film includes black humor and situational comedy
A documentary film about singing and a young man in search of himself and his voice.