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Dad is a drunken newspaperman who can't hold a job, his mother is a crotchety whiner who demands breakfast in bed while trying to sneak booze away from her son, his oldest son is a Communist constantly spouting off about the evils of capitalism, the youngest son plays hooky from school to go to prizefights and his daughter is having an affair with a married man.
Powell ends up prosecuting Gable for murder and demands the death sentence.
However, Lightner surrenders her feminist credentials early on when she meekly submits to her husband's demands that he run the company and she stay home where she belongs and care for their young son.
Then again, this film is set during one of the bloodiest chapters of American history and demands unflinching depiction accordingly.
They are both briefed, Frances rich husband Clarke (James Naughton) has received a videotape that demands he pay a $1,000,000 ransom or Frances will be left to suffocate & die an agonising & terrifying death.
For Collette's character to give in to his demands so easily after having said her piece about not going out there, and then to complain about what he did to them out there, and then not to explain why she even has this job and what it really means - might have been a much more interesting film if the Japanese guy had to find his own way around, and had met a strange woman in the desert with whom he plays, instead of having this geologist lead the way.
Then she demands to know what he feels for her, and he goes and dumps the red powder on her head and proclaims her his wife.
After receiving sad news from General Lee, mother Henderson demands cowardly Walthall hide in "The House with Closed Shutters", so folks will think he died honorably.
She plays a sadistic, bitchy boss who makes impossible demands to a young woman who gets the impossible done out of nothing more than fear.
Or maybe I can --- it demands a certain "innocence" and a surrender to sentiment that most adults today are uncomfortable with.
There is always more under the surface than it seems with Kim Ki Duk's movies, this movie demands multiple views to understand how brilliant it is.
His obvious age demands such a suspension of belief that it is difficult to focus on the movie.
Once there, he learns that his mother and sister have been kidnapped (presumably by Abu Sayyaf guerrillas), and that in order to save them he must follow a very precise series of demands.
Shapeshifter is set in a state prison where state law demands the warden has to have a minimum number of female deputies, ex-soldier Ginny Lydon (Jennifer Lee Wiggins) gets the job.
This begins to be a problem when the real guy who played the character in the film confronts his persona and demands that he return to the movie and everyone resume their "real" lives where movie character are fictional and people are real.
The 'Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense', which followed some years after, suffered from demands for less horror and a longer running time from U.S. TV apparently!
The film demands you to feel not only for the death we witness, but for the incredible life we discover.
The Little Princess herself is annoying with all her rants and demands.
David buys Rachel, and Davey overhears the negotiation; but the reverend demands that they should marry to each other to have a decent life in the same house.
The wife too is shown as an irrational human being who would make unjustified demands on his apparently busy husband.
The acting by Sydney and Fonda is great, passionate, completely in character and utterly convincing in conveying the depth of their relationship, crucial considering the incredible demands Fonda's character makes of the law-abiding Sydney.
The second tale is about a werewolf and is only saved by the unintentionally hilarious lines from the old woman, such as when the man demands she open the door, to which she replies "I will not!" and then declares "I have a meat cleaver and I know how to use it!"
DANIKA is a story that demands the viewer's careful attention and rewards that attention with a finely wrought surprise ending.
His campaign manager Harry Stone (Ken Swofford) demands the candidate dump his mistress (Tisha Sterling) and backs up the demand with threats to expose the politician's shady past.
She, predictably, doesn't quite reciprocate and even demands an apology, and her boyfriend reveals himself to be a flaming eunuch in disguise, so what happens next?
The Evil Queen demands that the Huntsman brings back the heart of the heroine so she can keep it in a box.
The story follows a dancer-by-day, assassin-by-night (Duvall) who's been building a relationship with a woman (Kathy Baker) and her daughter (Katherine Micheaux Miller), both of them -- as the genre demands -- unaware of his profession.
He get to the BIG BOSS and demands his million dollars, and then goes home victorious.
If there's any story that demands talking animals, then it's this one.
The scale of this challenge demands a comprehensive, institutional response from the EU that goes well beyond the Decade and the capacity of my foundations.
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