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Adopted at age three by doctor Keya, Kaju was taken to the United States to escape the political turmoil of 1984 riots in India.
The main hero, a little fox Vuk lost his parents and was adopted by another old fox, Karak.
Such ventures into the often complex and extremely conflicted area of politics, war and current social prejudices are subsequently left alone by those the film ostensibly tries to draw in (those looking for intelligent, insightful political drama) and instead adopted and loved by people riveted by your average Michael Bay movie.
Boy was adopted by parents who were killed in crash..Boy survives crash 3 women gave birth to a boy same day..& gave up for adoption to the same shelter..Whos child is this?
Several people have adopted the line "Oh Don Juan! Oh Miguel!
I married a fat woman (over 300 pounds), being only 145 pounds myself at the time, adopted her three children, and had three more by her; all of them very good looking but some struggling somewhat with weight.
His adopted daughter Gosalyn is spunky, but sweet.
In the late 1970s (a few years after Miss Crawford's death), New York Magazine ran excerpts from a forthcoming book called "Mommie Dearest," written by Ms. Crawford's adopted daughter, portraying her mother as the ultimate witch-from-hell.
Just to the end, we discover the real plan of Irena: living close to Tea, the last child she was forced to have, and apparently was sold and adopted by the Adachers.
Or the last name of the family that adopted Tea, chosen by the Mold by a name engraved on his necklace.
Based on Christina Crawford's "memoir," MOMMIE DEAREST focuses primarily on Crawford in the 1940s when she adopted a few children and was, at least briefly, considered a good actress.
Throw in 2 playboy playmates (only 1 of which shows her "qualifications" for that position), an annoying fat guy who was adopted in real life by the camp handyman Buck Flower (probably the only reason 1 or the other is even in this film), a silent but creepy cook, an over eccentric counselor, a horny cop, and the film's choreographer (who plays the mascot of all characters), and you have a decent last gasp for breath in the by then dying slasher genre.
The premise isn't complicated at all: a man brought up to love the daughter of his adopted family kills her brother - the fact that her family killed his is a bit irrelevant; see below.
Pre-Code means that the film was released before the strict Production Code was adopted in 1934.
Having said that there is no question of his genuine feeling for his adopted country especially as manifested here in a film he directed as well as playing the leading role.
The Dr.'s own family, that consists of he, his wife, and dozens of adopted children, is uniquely dysfunctional.
This time around any one of three women could be the mother of an adopted boy who is the sole survivor of an air crash.
He played a young man married to a "widow" in Deewana, an understanding adopted son in Pardes, or a rich NRI kid who still knows his roots in DDLJ.
The Cary Grant character starts off wanting nothing to do with children and ends up having his adopted child being his raison d'etre.
There are many familiar yet well executed themes: adopted children can be just as loved as birth children; you don't have to have lots of money to be a good parent.
The kids are all adopted by foster parents in the neighbor town next to Gatlin.
I have been arguing for four years that our business-cycle problems call for more aggressively expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, and that our biggest problems would quickly melt away were such policies to be adopted.
In April 2000, when the Dakar Framework for Action was adopted, signatories identified conflict as a “major barrier” to attaining the goal of “education for all,” one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The proposal was never adopted.
Last year, Tanzania adopted legislation that has already been used to charge individuals with crimes who have criticized President John Magufuli on social media.
Coalition politics gives representation to the myriad interests that make up a diverse and complex society, and ensures that the country as a whole accepts the policies ultimately adopted.
This era was ended in 1996, when the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
Some governments have adopted new, rules-based governance codes, and are instituting strict controls to keep projects on track.
Asia, Mexico and Brazil adopted and applied IMF strategies; they raised interest rates to the sky to bring about stable currencies; only with stability did they bring down rates as investor confidence returned.
Some argue that if the government adopted a more coherent negotiating strategy the damage would be less.
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