Word: mother
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...story, Jonze (with co-writer Dave Eggers) invents just enough of Max's home life to convey the forces behind his disobedience. The parents of 9-year-old Max (played by Max Records, whose name and performance suggest he was born for this role) have split up, and his mother (the gloriously sensitive Catherine Keener) is struggling to keep their household together while trying to meet her own needs. (She has a new boyfriend, played by Mark Ruffalo.) Max also has a sister, a teenager named Claire (Pepita Emmerichs), whose desire to move on from childhood - illustrated in swift, vivid...
...like all other things, will die. As Max's eyes widen almost imperceptibly, we realize that he is paying attention and is horrified. Jonze keeps the moment quiet, but it is one more piece in the puzzle of existential angst that drives Max to that fateful eruption with his mother. Here, instead of being sent to his room, he flees the house and goes racing through the neighborhood, baying like a wolf. He finds a boat and sets sail, finally arriving in the land of the wild things...
...Toyota Highlander burst into flames after it swerved across the center line of Route 202 in New Hampshire and collided with a Chevy Malibu, leaving his wife Regina, his mother Helen, and the other driver dead at the scene. Lagakos...
...always thought Ariel was an amazing person, but that’s a mom’s job to think that,” said her mother Teresa Feiock. “You all have helped me to realize that was true...
...Born June 14, 1932 in Springfield, Mass. His mother died in childbirth; his father ran an Italian grocery store...