The story is straightforward enough: Benjamin (Michael Angarano), a lonely teen-ager being home-schooled by his poor single mother (Jennifer Coolidge) in a dome-shaped house somewhere west of the Rockies, salves his soul by writing and illustrating whacked-out science-fiction fantasies.
They go to a lonely country house, inhabited by a pair of wealthy oddballs called Flower (Charles Durning) and Stone (Joel Grey), who trounce Pozzi at poker and then demand an unusual repayment: he and Nashe must build a stone wall in the grounds.
Over time, though, he warms to the invaders: Joe (Bobby Cannavale), loud and lonely, who sells coffee and hot dogs from a neighboring van, and Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a painter, still mourning the loss of a young son.
In calm and workaday Lisbon, Pilar (Teresa Madruga), a lonely, low-key, middle-aged social activist, gently pursued by a gentleman artist, finds her elderly neighbor, Aurora (Laura Soveral), a capricious faded beauty, in decline and struggling under the loving care of a home attendant.
It was a lonely time. (Laughter.) We actually lived in the same building when we first arrived in Washington.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God.
Then there's his awkward romance with a lonely woman (Miranda Richardson, very good as usual) who works at the radio station where he preaches on Sunday mornings.
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Italian actors picked up the best actor and actress categories - Luigi Lo Cascio won for Luce dei miei Occhi (Light of My Eyes), about a lonely young man and his obsession with a single mother.
You see one single flower nodding on a cliff side far across the canyon, or a huge knot in a redwood tree looking like Zeus' face, or some of God's little crazy creations goofing around in creek pools (zigzag bugs), or a sign on a lonely fence saying 'M.
In an age when pride is on the wane yet the sense is strengthening that money has fatal flaws as an engine of equality, that experience simply cuts people off from political participation and sets them adrift, inward into their private lives, whether in a lonely or gregarious way (or, by turns, both).
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He sits a while in lonely taverns where some love songs are sung in Spanish ("Maria Elena").
Brian Forbes's deeply affecting "The Whisperers" (1967) earned Dame Edith Evans an Oscar nomination for her haunting portrait of a lonely old woman losing her grip.
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We get a pair of teen-agers who dream of becoming sadistic big shots, although the camera catches something instantly pathetic in their delirium. (Watch them standing on a lonely beach in their underpants, firing stolen guns at nothing at all.) We get a kid who carries drugs for the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, the innocence seeping from him with every favor.
Born into great wealth (her maternal grandparents owned Russeks, a fancy Fifth Avenue department store), Arbus endured a lonely childhood with a depressive mother and a workaholic, womanising father.
Reynolds American ( RAI - news - people ), which makes Camels, has been waging a lonely battle against it.
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