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Brad and Kate have been together three years, in love, having fun, doing all sorts of things together with no intention of marriage or children. Christmas morning, they're on their way to Fiji, having told their two sets of divorced parents that they're off to do charity work. Through a fluke, they β¦have no choice but to visit each of their four idiosyncratic parents. As the day progresses, Brad and Kate remember growing up, each learns more about the other, and Kate realizes that her life may not be as good as it could be. Do they know each other well enough to weather the storms families bring? (Read More)
Themes: | wrestlingdysfunctional familydivorcechristmas |
Locations: | san francisco californiaairport |
Characters: | former best friendolder woman younger man relationshipex husband ex wife relationshipsister sister relationshipbabybrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | christmas party2000s |
Story: | elvis presleyairport personnelvomiting on someonenewborn babychristmas with familychristmas daychristmas moviechristmas giftchristmas presenttelephone callreference to ricardo montalbansatellite televisionplaying a board gamecancelled flightlying to one's parents β¦airline employeesatellite tvreference to celine diontv news reporterbouncy castleone year laterargument between couplenativity playboyfriend girlfriend conflictappeared on tv newspregnancy scarestreakerfamily argumentsexual role playingsatellite dishnews broadcastcaught in a liethree brothersstreakingcharacter appears on tvhawaiian shirttv broadcastreference to santa clausfalling off a rooflarge familyholiday seasonbudweiserelvisxbox 360holiday in titlehospital roompregnancy testblonde womanphoto albumpastormobile phonecamera shot of feettv newsnews reporttelephonevomitingundressingcell phonetitle spoken by characternumber in titletwo word title (See All) |
The Bakers, a family of 14, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in o β¦rder while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | character appears on tvlarge familyvomitingcell phone |
Carl Allen is at a standstill. No future... Until the day he enrolls into a personal development program based on a very simple idea: say yes to everything! Carl discovers with amazement the magical power of "Yes", and sees his professional and romantic life turned upside down overnight: an unexpect β¦ed promotion and a new girlfriend. But he'll soon discover that better can be good's enemy, and that all opportunities shouldn't be taken. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone callcharacter appears on tvxbox 360mobile phonetelephonecell phonetitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipsister sister relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | character appears on tvlarge familybudweisertelephonetwo word title |
Lucy's life consists of constant loneliness that is until she saves Peter's life. Now she is a part of his family, and with a strong heart and fate on her side, others begin to realize what a terrific person she is, especially Jack, Peter's brother. An extraordinarily true-to-life sequence of events β¦ begin to take place as Lucy and Jack become closer and learn more about each other and themselves than one would ever expect from such coincidental, yet believable events. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | christmas daychristmas giftchristmas presenttelephone callholiday seasonhospital roomphoto albumtitle spoken by character |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion β¦s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipex husband ex wife relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callphoto albumtelephonevomitingcell phone |
Kirk is an average Joe who works as a TSA agent at the Pittsburgh airport with his friends. The status quo of his fairly monotonous life ends when he meets Molly, a smart, kind and gorgeous blonde. Because she's way out of his league (she's a hard 10 and he is but a 5), Kirk knows there's no way on β¦earth she's ever going to fall for him. Or is there...? (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | airline employeecamera shot of feet |
A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place β¦the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker? (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | newborn babytelephone callpregnancy testtelephonevomitingtitle spoken by character |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca β¦tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | christmas presenttelephone callthree brothersreference to santa claustelephoneundressingcell phonetwo word title |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familychristmas |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone callphoto albumvomitingcell phonetitle spoken by character |
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11 year old kid is insecure abo β¦ut the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callvomitingtitle spoken by character |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a cafe with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initia β¦tes a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | babymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | newborn babytelephone callmobile phonetv newscell phone |
Michele seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michele's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious β¦ and thrilling game-a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipex husband ex wife relationshipbabymother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | newborn babycharacter appears on tvtitle spoken by character |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callphoto albumundressingcell phone |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat β¦e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Locations: | san francisco californiaairport |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callmobile phonecell phone |
Coming back to accomplish the divorce procedure, Ahmad an Iranian man, arrives in Paris after four years to meet his ex-wife and her daughters from her previous marriage. He notices his ex is in a relationship with an Arab named Samir who also has a son and a wife in a coma. The relationship of the β¦older daughter and her mother is in deterioration because the daughter thinks her mother is the cause of Samir's wife comatose state. The affairs get more complicated when the older daughter discloses something heinous she has done. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone calltelephonecell phonetwo word title |
Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New Yo β¦rk too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin's ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget! (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | christmas with familychristmas moviechristmas gifttelephone calltelephonenumber in title |
Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shi β¦pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
Locations: | san francisco california |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | caught in a lietitle spoken by character |
Dan is a 51 year old executive who learns that his company is being restructured and he is being demoted. Carter, who is 26, replaces him. Dan who has two teenage daughters with another on the way, decides to suck it up and work for Carter. Dan and Carter's working relationship is tested when Carter β¦ begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callhospital roompregnancy testvomitingcell phone |
A romantic drama set in New York City during the summer of 2001, where Tyler, a rebellious young man, meets Ally through a twist of fate. Her spirit helps him heal after a family tragedy, though soon the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipbrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | blonde womanvomitingundressing |
In the sumer of 1976, 30-year old Vince Papale is having a tough run of luck. He's been working as a substitute teacher for two days a week but has just found out that his job has been eliminated because of budget cuts. His wife gives up on him saying he'll never amount to anything and asks for a di β¦vorce. He works as a bartender and plays football with his friends. When the the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, Dick Vermeil, announces that he will hold open tryouts for the team, Vince reluctantly decides to give a try. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | appeared on tv newscharacter appears on tvreference to santa claus |
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi β¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | telephone callundressingtwo word title |
Six years have elapsed since Guantanemo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season with a mysterious package in hand, he inadvertently burns down Harold's father-in-la β¦w's beloved Christmas tree. To fix the problem, Harold and Kumar embark on a mission through New York City to find the perfect Christmas tree, once again stumbling into trouble at every single turn. (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | christmas movieholiday seasonholiday in titlenumber in title |
Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack's Christmas themed comeback cover of "Love Is All Around" which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it much to his manager Joe's chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles to h β¦appiness through love for Londoners are presented in the five weeks preceding Christmas. Daniel's wife has just passed away, leaving him to take care of his adolescent stepson Sam by himself. Daniel is uncertain how to deal with Sam and his problems without his wife present, especially in light of a potential budding romance within their household. Juliet and Peter have just gotten married. They believe that Peter's best friend and best man Mark hates Juliet but won't say so to his or her face. Others looking at the situation from the outside believe Mark is jealous of Juliet as he is in love with Peter himself. Jamie, a writer, is taking a writing retreat by himself in rural France following catching his latest girlfriend in an indiscretion. Jamie ends up spending much time in France with Aurelia, the Portuguese woman hired as the housekeeper. The question becomes not only if they can communicate their day-to-day needs with each other as she speaks no English, he speaks no Portuguese, and neither speaks French well, but communicate what seems to be their increasing mutual attraction to each other. Sarah has been in love with her co-worker Karl for the two years they have worked toβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | christmas |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | christmas gifttelephone callnativity playundressingcell phonetitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twen β¦ties onwards. Christine receives treatment from Dr. Nasch, a neurologist at a local hospital who provides her a camera to record her thoughts and progress each day, and calls her every morning to remind her to watch the video in the camera. Soon, she starts to discover the truth around her. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipbabyhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone callhospital roomphoto albummobile phonetelephonecell phone |
Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of β¦ honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | telephone callphoto albumvomitingundressingcell phonetitle spoken by character |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her β¦separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familydivorce |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callfamily argumentreference to santa claustelephonevomiting |
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Conf β¦ronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipbrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callvomitingcell phone |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo β¦k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | divorcechristmas |
Locations: | san francisco californiaairport |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabybrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone calltv newstitle spoken by character |
Victor Novarski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport till the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people wh β¦o work there until he can leave. (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone calltv newsnews reportcell phonetitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as β¦he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Characters: | babybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone calltv newstelephonevomitingundressingcell phonetitle spoken by character |
Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn't possibly be right for one another... or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies. One awkward turn at 18, one missed opportunity... and life sends them hurling β¦ in different directions. But somehow, across time, space and different continents, the tie that binds them cannot be undone. Will they find their way back to one another, or will it be too late? Based on Cecelia Ahern's bestselling novel "Where Rainbows End", LOVE, ROSIE is a modern comedy-of-errors tale posing the ultimate question: Do we really only get one shot at true love? (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | babyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callpregnancy testvomitingcell phonetwo word title |
Maria Altman sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabybrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | newborn babytelephone calltv newstelephone |
A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a traveling carnival globe of death and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady, New York, desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes) who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt r β¦ider's son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an ambitious police officer, Avery Cross, (Bradley Cooper) looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. The sweeping drama unfolds over fifteen years as the sins of the past haunt the present days lives of two high school boys wrestling with the legacy they've inherited. The only refuge is found in the place beyond the pines. (Read More)
Themes: | wrestling |
Characters: | babyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callappeared on tv newscharacter appears on tvtv newsnews reporttelephonevomiting |
In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets o β¦f cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned. (Read More)
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | airport personneltelephone callvomiting |
L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy β¦ neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence. (Read More)
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callvomitingcell phone |
A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar β¦ is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callmobile phonetv newsvomitingundressingcell phonetitle spoken by character |
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Themes: | divorcechristmas |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipbabybrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone calltelephone |
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an insurance company, for close to four years, and is one of close to thirty-two thousand employees located in their Manhattan head office. To distinguish himself from all the other lowly cogs in the company in β¦the hopes of moving up the corporate ladder, he often works late, but only because he can't get into his apartment, located off of Central Park West, since he has provided it to a handful of company executives - Mssrs. Dobisch, Kirkeby, Vanderhoff and Eichelberger - on a rotating basis for their extramarital liaisons in return for a good word to the personnel director, Jeff D. Sheldrake. When Baxter is called into Sheldrake's office for the first time, he learns that it isn't just to be promoted as he expects, but also to add married Sheldrake to the list to who he will lend his apartment. What Baxter is unaware of is that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik, an elevator girl in the building who Baxter himself fancies. In turn, Sheldrake has no idea of Baxter's own interest in Fran. And Fran, who is in love with Sheldrake, has no idea that she is only the latest in a long line of Sheldrake's mistresses, that Sheldrake has no intention of leaving his wife for her, and that the apartment belongs to Baxter, who she likes as a friend. As some of these facts come to light on Christmas Eve, one of the three makes a unilateral decision. That decision sets off a series of events over the β¦ (Read More)
Themes: | divorcechristmas |
Characters: | sister sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | christmas party |
Story: | christmas daychristmas presenttelephone callholiday seasoncamera shot of feettitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbabyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | newborn babyundressingtitle spoken by character |
In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to re β¦veal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara), is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, convenient marriage. As an immediate connection sparks between them, the innocence of their first encounter dims and their connection deepens. While Carol breaks free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese and close relationship with her best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) come to light. (Read More)
Themes: | divorcechristmas |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | christmas presenttelephone calltelephonetitle spoken by character |
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devou β¦tly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipsister sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | photo albummobile phoneundressingtitle spoken by character |
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales β¦ clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familychristmas |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipbabymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone callundressingcell phonetitle spoken by character |
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite t β¦he fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him. Now together, brother and sister must come to terms with the new and painful responsibilities with their father now affecting their lives even as they struggle with their own personal demons Lenny helped create. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional familychristmas |
Locations: | airport |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone callcaught in a liecell phonetitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Julie and Jason have been best friends for years with no romantic interest in each other. He sleeps with someone new every few days, and she's looking for Mr. Right. Now in their thirties, they notice that their friends seem to lose all their good qualities when they have children - child rearing an β¦d the spark of Eros don't seem to co-exist. So, they decide to have a child together, share in child rearing, but pursue their own romantic lives. Things go well until he meets Mary Jane and she meets Kurt. Both seem like perfect mates. What could go wrong? (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | babyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | telephone callphoto albumcell phone |
Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability to pull "10s" every weekend without fail. Yet even the finest flings don't compare to the transcendent bliss he achieves al β¦one in front of the computer watching pornography. Dissatisfied, he embarks on a journey to find a more gratifying sex life, but ends up learning larger lessons of life and love through relationships with two very different women. (Read More)
Characters: | older woman younger man relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | family argumentbudweisertitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Characters: | brother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone calltv newsnews reporttelephoneundressingtwo word title |
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorce finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John has all but given up on roman β¦ce. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie, John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiance Tim at a party. To his and everyone else's surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly. Their chemistry is immediate. The relationship takes off quickly but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John's house. Perplexed, he follows her home and discovers the other man in Molly's life: her son, Cyrus. A 21-year-old new age musician, Cyrus is his mom's best friend and shares an unconventional relationship with her. Cyrus will go to any lengths to protect Molly and is definitely not ready to share her with anyone, especially John. Before long, the two are locked in a battle of wits for the woman they both love-and it appears only one man can be left standing when it's over. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | telephone callmobile phonetelephonecell phonetitle spoken by character |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | dysfunctional family |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipbabyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | telephone calltelephonevomitingundressingtitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
The needy Gigi Haim is a young woman seeking her prince charming somewhere amongst her unsuccessful dates. After dating estate agent Conor Barry, Gigi anxiously expects to receive a phone call from him. However Conor never calls her. Gigi decides to go to the bar where he frequents to see him, but s β¦he meets his friend Alex who works there. They become friends and Alex helps Gigi to interpret the subtle signs given out by her dates. (Read More)
Themes: | divorce |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | telephone callxbox 360cell phone |