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Willis is also very good as evil and abusive husband Jim.
His film is full of clichés : abusive slow motions (on the crucial moments, of course) stupid special effect when we see the ball coming right to us, horrible heavy orchestral muzak (on the crucial moments, of course).
The courtroom climax (with shopgirl Hope Lange on trial for killing her abusive step-father) is really corny, but fans of the soap genre will be enthralled.
One wonders if he had a parent that was abusive or an Uncle or someone he had intimately observed.
Because from somewhere that man understood something about an abusive relationship and put it in his performance.
Bad ass female police officer with abusive father falls in love with mysterious heroic stranger.
She convinces her father to travel abroad using his garden gnome; she helps her neighbor that is an outcast and lonely painter and the super that misses her unfaithful husband; she also helps her hypochondriac colleague that works in the tobacco shop and the man that stalks the other waitress acting like cupid; she plays pranks to an employer that mistreats his employee with abusive relationship.
Bobby hears weird noises and finds blood in his apartment, and overhears an argument between an abusive police officer and his wife and their daughters.
Office worker Angela (Gina Ramsden) is shot dead by her abusive boyfriend Josh (Joshua Nelson) but she doesn't stay dead for long, Angela quickly learns that being a zombie is difficult.
The Doctor was, however, just as abusive, dismissive, selfish and manipulative, not helping her, but in a different way, being maybe worse, since appearing to be what she wanted in a man.
George C. Scott plays a recently divorced man who willingly begins a semi-affair with Petulia, who is married to an abusive man.
And the stepmother is not the prototype abusive one; she's good to the girls.
Nothing goes right for him, and literally every single person in his life is abusive to him in one way or the other.
He lives in an abusive home with his alcoholic brother (Philippe Clay) and constantly complaining sister-in-law (Tsilla Chelton).
Her only escape from an abusive and cheating husband is the movies.
Brigitte Lin is a masculine, abusive, violent cop, who picks a high paid gigolo because she can control, beat, and threaten him to behave.
Meanwhile, Derek wishes for his mom to escape a verbally abusive marriage while gaining some guts of his own.
THe main villain is a heartless weasel who hates everyone and is abusive and the movie wants you to believe that everyone who hates gay people is like this jerk off.
Juhi wonderfully plays the role of a documentary filmmaker and a woman standing up to her abusive husband.
Mia Farrow,(Cecila) played the role of a woman who was married to an abusive husband and a just plain Good For Nothing of a man.
As we know about the original Aesop fable, this movie contraries from it and contains an abusive amount of clichés, pop culture references, movie references, and so much more clustered together.
All too often, his characters are rude, crude, abusive, and psychotic.
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.
Maria (Ana Fernandez) comes from an abusive household and seeks to get away.
You've got the screen debut of Maureen O'Hara, who's playing a young woman who gets involved with a group of pirates when she travels from Ireland to England to stay with her aunt Patience (Marie Ney) and her abusive husband Joss (Leslie Banks).
We have a typical Hollywood construct, 60's racist Alabama, intercut with a retail clerk's dream of ascendance to stardom: kill your abusive husband, steal a car, by a hat for the hatbox, (paste classical reference here) sweet-talk a cop out of holding you in jail--Banderas probably knows so little about police procedure in this country that he actually thought the hatbox in a stolen vehicle would not be checked-- win big in Las Vegas, audition for Bewitched, and become a star.
Is it her hot-headed boyfriend Dwight(Brad Pitt)or the recently released(from a mental institution, no less)Brian Woods(Donovan Leitch), often hiding behind bushes and other objects to stare at Paula? Someone shoots an arrow that lands in the torso of Paula's district attorney father(Martin Mull)who is out hunting;he's the one responsible for putting Brian away for the murder of his abusive father.
The abusive mother,goofy,affectionate father, the hot sister and the problematic daughter constitute the family.
The displaced Heather becomes close friend of he weird Marcy Turner (Lauren Birkell), while they are maltreated by the abusive mate Samantha Wise (Rachel Nichols).
as for her gift of running, she had a lot to run from, including an abusive father and a lame boyfriend.
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