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Still what I find brilliant and special with this film, is that all though child abuse is a main theme, it is still a film where you laugh.
But, as with most artists, he lived a life of self-destructive self-indulgence, marked by serial philandering and hardcore drug abuse.
When both place abuse the animals, Stein immediately avenges his friends.
Holy Cross purports to be a true representation of the horrifying and shaming events in Belfast back in 2001 when Catholic schoolgirls were subjected, by protesting loyalists, to a tunnel of verbal and physical abuse on their way to classes.
The amount of abuse of power, lying and accusing innocent people who happen to know the actual criminal, using any trick or lie imaginable to trick someone into confessing.
There wouldn't have to be rules to protect the innocent if the ability to go power mad and abuse the authority given them didn't happen on a regular basis.
The film focuses primarily on Rocky's relationship with his mother Rusty (Cher), a free-spirited independent woman whose history of drug and alcohol abuse and sexual promiscuity has been such a concern to Rocky that it's sometimes hard to tell who's raising who in the Dennis household.
If couples watched this, I could imagine the women beating the crap out of their male partners if they imagined they got off to the rape, abuse, powerlessness, and humiliation of women.
From high points when we see both lovely long-term and youthful couples exchanging vows and the election of a gay man to the Massachusetts Parliament, to low points where an elected official of that same government forthrightly denies historical injustices against LGBT people and contemporary realities of abuse, harassment, discrimination and worse, and finishing on the sad reality that bigotry still prevails in much of the American public, a bigotry which could strip same-sex couples of this right, I recommend that everyone with an opinion on same-sex marriage view this.
The film shows the development of Karl Koch from his teenage years to his death as a person destroyed by his cocaine abuse and the extreme pressure he experienced in the wheels of eatern/western policy.
In fact, what it shows is a that it is an efficient legal system which prevents abuses of our immigration system which immigrants often abuse to avoid national quotas.
This is a fantastic movie, driven primarily by Lancaster's embodiment of the character of Valdez - a town constable who kills an innocent man in self-defense, only to then become the subject of constant abuse by the slain's pursuer.
Valdez's vengeful reactions to this abuse, the episodic pacing, and the great supporting actors make this a real cinematic treat.
What's so funny (or romantic) about abuse and codependency taken to sociopathic levels on all fronts?
He had serious problems, not the least of which being substance abuse.
Yet there is still plenty of abuse.
If you think you know where this is going, watch this movie anyway, as it's got plenty of surprises and twists, changing from black comedy to heartbreaking drama, with some shattering, almost unbearably intense, albeit discreet, scenes of child abuse.
There were also a lot of plots that were skipped, like Dario's homosexuality, Carrie's abuse and rape as well as how and why she came to be a prostitute, the stories of Gino's abusive father, and the list goes on and on.
In the middle of the two of them is Jacy's sister Macy who is felling the abuse of the mother/daughter relationship.
She's beginning to change when she's taken in by a youth facility and locked up for drug abuse.
The movie promotes drug dealing bisexual liaisons (male and female), pedophile no talent rock stars, sadistic homosexuals that want to use and abuse (kill?) a kidnapped 9 year old boy.
Mighty Peking Man is a friendly giant ape man who cares for a jungle girl and takes a lot of abuse before he snaps.
The tale of an an aging movie actress, over 40, put out to pasture by the major studios, and driven by loneliness to alcoholism and then to child abuse didn't strike me in the least bit amusing.
It's definitely unsuitable for children or people who can't tolerate the abuse and the movies of type "lets write something quickly just to produce a film".
Society fails in that it is unable to prevent the original crime; and then again, in locking up those criminals in a world of squalor, drug abuse, and violence, ruled, in effect, by the criminal hierarchy whose delicate co-operation with the authorities is necessary to maintain any semblance of order.
This movie should make us reflect on whether or not it is our business to step in when we see someone getting abuse.
Behind all the laughter the film has a lot of observations to share about fear, love, commitment and alcohol abuse.
This, like ENOUGH, starring Jennifer Lopez, and others dealing with abuse issues are movies about what many women feel about wrongs done, and are a good way to work through the anger without actually having to go to jail for "acting out!"
Yes abuse is awful, but Donna Yaclich was a scheming, greedy, manipulative woman who had her husband killed for insurance money.
Let's say she killed him because she could no longer stand the abuse and wanted to protect her children, that might be believable, but no she did it for the money.
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