This film is about Frank’s journey of discovering who his son is and the complications of their relationship. Frank’s relationship with Josh strengthens throughout the film until it crumbles at the end. Frank’s ex-wife Cheryl serves as the mirror to show Frank how far he’s strayed from family life. Frank’s old friend Dale serves as his ambassador to the small town and Ruth Baxter, Frank’s boss, is Frank’s guide through the legal matters. As Frank tries to reenter his son Josh’s life, he learns of his son’s immense success as a high school quarterback. The small town he plays for totes him as king for his ability on the field and small-town charm. He’s the biggest celebrity the town has ever had and he’s only 18. Frank and Josh’s interactions …show more content…
In the beginning of the second act, the town fully supports Frank’s endeavors and believes Josh to be innocent. After the midpoint where Frank is caught snooping around the home of the victim’s family and a damning news report comes out, the town turns on Frank and believes his son to be guilty. At this point Frank’s relationship with his son becomes stronger than it ever was before. So, all that Frank has left in the world is the support of his son, and that’s all he needs. Despite the relationship forming with his son, the further Frank digs into suspects in Cynthia Hanks murder, the more it points to Josh. Frank most turnover the stones of the high school, Josh’s friend’s, and Cynthia’s family to paint the picture he needs of the town. At the end of Act Two, Frank has reached yet another dead end, all leads now point towards Josh. Then enters the 10-year-old sister of …show more content…
Frank agrees to drive her back to her home but he is deathly afraid to be seen with her. Frank takes her to her house and she tells him about how Cynthia loved to go out into the woods alone very often after midnight. Frank goes where she talks about and finds Cynthia’s journal. Then plays out the long and tragic story of Cynthia Hanks. She’s been in an abusive relationship with Josh this entire time. Josh constantly berates her not upholding what he believes a great girlfriend should be. Josh lowers her self-worth, talking about what she deserves and holding his value over her while pointing out her flaws. Cynthia has tried to get help but with ambivalent parents, the resources of a small town, and Josh’s clout over the town, she has nowhere to turn to. This leads to Cynthia’s suicide note, apologizing not being enough for anyone. Frank comes to the decision to not release that Cynthia killed herself, and let his son be prosecuted for murder without any of the evidence Frank gained to help him. Frank speaks to Josh one last time to talk about the journal. Josh releases the monster he’s kept hidden onto his father and says it was Frank’s fault, citing how he had to win Frank’s attention, and would’ve been fine if his father had ever cared for him like he deserved. Frank apologizes, and leaves the room. Frank feels responsible for his son’s actions, for if he’d have been a better father, none of this would’ve
The two become soul mates. Karl related to Frank through his childlike manner as well as his parental setup. Frank’s mother was a widow dating an alcoholic, abusive man, Doyle. Karl saw himself in Frank and decided to watch over him. The parallelism between the two characters was shown throughout the movie.
After April and Roger search desperately for Cheryl, they look for several weeks, and have no idea where she has gone. One night Cheryl’s friend Nancy calls April, and explains that she was leaving with her, but she had left suddenly and believes she is going to do something bad. April remembers that Cheryl told her how their mother committed suicide, by jumping off the Louis Bridge. When they arrive at the bridge a group of people say they saw a women jumped off and commit suicide about five minutes before they arrived.
The main protagonist of the film, Scotty Smalls, is introduced as a straight-A, friendless young boy who has just moved into a new neighborhood in new state. While
The lives that these men live makes them cruel and separate from the world, which in return makes having an actual loving relationship nearly impossible for them. Michael Sullivan, played by Tom Hanks, was and enforcer of the Chicago mob. Michael Jr, played by Tyler Hoechlin, was a 12 years old boy who became curious about what his father did for a living after question by his younger brother Peter. Michael Jr. decides to hide in the car and find out what type of work his father does. After seeing a man be killed, by his fathers co worker Michael Jr. attempts to run away, but can’t find a escape route. Sullivan works for John Rooney, Paul Newman, who was the mob boss and focused only on how to make money and said very little words. Rooney son Conner, played by Daniel Craig, is a member of the mob and gets jealous over the relationship that Sullivan has with his father. Sullivan finds out that Conner has been stealing from his father Mr. Rooney. This is where the movie’s scene for emotional showdown begins, because Sullivan sees Rooney as a father and Rooney sees Sullivan as a son that he never had. Sullivan explained to Michael Jr. why the relationship between him and Mr. Rooney was so strong, because he gave them a place to live when they had no where and gave them money when they had
Meg Murray, the protagonist and the person from whom the reader gets their point of view, is the main character. She has a little brother, Charles Wallace, and two twin brothers, Sandy and Denny. Her mother is a guiding figure within the story, and serves as her daughter Meg's source of ambition. We learn from reading the story that Meg's father disappears from an extremely secret scientific project, and is expected to return, but hasn't for several years. Meg can see the pain that her mother feels and the rest of the family also about the loss of their father, and wants to help find him. All the while, feelings are mutual that their father is living, but nobody knows for sure.
As well as these changes, I will illustrate many other. dramatic changes and role reversals that have taken place between the characters of Rita and Frank in the last few scenes of the play. Firstly with the stage direction “RITA, WHO IS SITTING COMFORTABLY IN” THE ARMCHAIR.” Russell has shown us that Rita is now the educated. woman she first set out to be.
The movie begins with self-centered, materialistic Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), learning the death of his father. To settle his dad’s estate, he and his business partner/girlfriend, Susanna (Valeria Golino) travel to his home town Cincinnati. While he was hoping to inherit all of his dad’s estate, all he got was a car and a collection of rosebushes that he simply has no use for. The remaining $3 million fortune was put into a trust for an unnamed beneficiary. Charlie demands to know the identity of the beneficiary and finds out that it is a mental hospital where his long-lost autistic brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) resides with a caretaker, Dr. Bruner (Gerald R. Molen).
The movie is about two cowboys Jack and Ennis whose job it is to protect sheep on a mountain called Brokeback during the summer of 1963 in Wyoming. During the summer Jack and Ennis fall in love. But at the end of the summer they part ways and continue on seeing each other at various times in their lives. Jack goes on to marry a woman named Lureen Newsome and they have a son together. Ennis himself marries a woman named Alma and they have two daughters together. But Alma finds out about Jack and what see saw she can’t forget and she eventually leaves Ennis and remarries. Jack finally decides that he wants to leave his wife for Ennis ...
The film chronicles the histories of three fathers, and manages to relates and link their events and situations. First is Mitchell Stephens and his relationship with his drug-addict daughter. Second is Sam, and the secret affair he is having with his young daughter Nicole. He is somewhat of a narcissistic character because of his preoccupation with himself and pleasing himself, and his lack of empathy throughout the film for the others in the town. Third is Billy, who loves his two children so much that he follows behind the school bus every day waving at them. Billy is also having an affair with a married woman who owns the town’s only motel. On the exterior the town is an average place with good people just living their lives. But, beneath all the small town simplicity is a web of lies and secrets, some which must be dealt with in the face of this tragedy.
The film begins with a mother’s search for a better life and a proper, complete family for her son. On meeting the seemingly charming Dwight Hansen portrayed by Robert De Niro, she feels that her search has ended and Dwight might be the perfect father for Tobias. But little does she know about Dwight’s real personality and what’s in store for her in the future. Tobias, however, saw right through Dwight and instantly disliked him. Despite Tobias’ reservations about Dwight , the desperate mother Caroline, portrayed by Ellen Barkin, marries him with the hopes of financial security and a functional family. With the expectation that this new life will finally change Toby’s bad ways, Caroline continues to live with Dwight despite his controlling nature. On the other...
When she returns home, Patch invites himself in to make tacos where he kisses her twice on the neck but is interrupted by a phone call. Then after Nora is more attracted to him and she begins to see him in a different light. After having a suspicion about Elliot she finds out that he was a suspect in a murder at his old school. Things get heated between Nora and patch when she sees and upside V on his back she is interested and touches them when she is pulled into his memories. This concludes to the realization that Patch is a fallen angel, who was trying to kill her.
He starts to really care for Dwayne because they both have depression in common. At one point in the movie, Frank and Dwayne were having a conversation and Dwayne mentioned he wished he could sleep till he was 18 so he could skip all the bad parts of high school. Frank then quotes a French writer, “When it gets down to the end of your life and you look back at all those years that you suffered, you will realize those were the best years of your life because they made you into the strong person you are now”. Frank and Dwayne then continued to talk about the struggles of life. Is seems to me the way Frank can reflection on his own depression can really help others. It shows that he understands what he did and that he will handle it differently next time. There were no blatant biological and psychological stressors that influenced Frank’s depression. There was no indication of past family medical problems that would have made him susceptible but according to Beck’s therapy Frank probably inherited a genetic disposition that made him susceptible to depression. If Frank wasn’t predisposed, he could have handled all of the bad events without getting mad and impulsive. He could have had a positive outlook instead of going into deep depression and trying to kill himself. The social-cultural/environmental stressors were the primary influences that cause his depression. He believed he was a full grown adult and was supposed to have his life together but it was the complete opposite. He had a romantic failure, a career disappointment, he lost his job, his homosexuality stigma, and then he lost his apartment. For most of the movie he was handling his depression really well, but it wasn’t until he ran into is ex-student/lover that his improved mood started to spiral back downward into a depressed mood. This showed he still has
One cannot be certain how Uncle Frank is related to the narrator; however, he is very protective and affectionate to her. One can tell this when he lifts her up and speaks with “a big love in his voice that drowned out the shouting”. In contrast, the narrator feels lonely and lacks trust and support from her mother and uncle after the incident when she is wrongly blamed for pushing Paula Brown into an oil puddle whilst playing tag and destroying her new “powder blue” snowsuit that she received for her birthday. They do not believe the
I chose this movie because I was very interested in the description that it gave. Also, when you hear about a parent leaving their family, it is usually the father. This movie explores the struggles that the family faces from the divorce and learning to adapt to living without the wife and mother. The main characters consist of the parents, Ted and Joanna Kramer, and their son, Billy Kramer. Mr. and Mrs. Kramer had been married for several years since Billy had been born.
Carrie chooses to leave her sister – the only real family she has in the city – and goes off with a Drouet, a man she just recently