He finds a formidable aunt (Judi Dench), an attractive widow (Julianne Moore), a reporting job at the local newspaper and some dark family secrets.
Algernon's main job is keeping his rich and formidable aunt, Lady Augusta Bracknell (Jane Altman) at bay while he seeks amorous adventures.
"Thorn" is about as personal a project as you'll see from a major filmmaker: a documentary portrait of Mr. Gondry's formidable Aunt Suzette, a family linchpin and former schoolteacher, and of her troubled relationship with her son, Jean-Yves.
Growing up, Hepburn had made the acquaintance of her mothers lesbian college friends, formidable aunts who were active in politics and the arts in the Greenwich Village of World War I and the 1920s.
She no longer cleaved to her unreliable, dithering mother but, rather, to a formidable maiden great-aunt, Helen Morehead.
His first duty is to have tea every week with the prince's formidable if short-sighted Aunt Alice.
A Philadelphia correspondent reports that his aunt, a formidable septuagenarian who queens it over a large, well-staffed Main Line residence, recently alarmed him at a family dinner by asking him where she could get a gun cleaned and oiled.
The New Yorker, February 7 , 1959P. 27 A Philadelphia correspondent reports that his aunt, a formidable septuagenarian who queens it over a large, well-staffed Main Line residence, recently alarmed him at a family dinner by asking him where she could get a gun cleaned and oiled.
By Phoebe Gilkyson and John McCarten The New Yorker, February 7 , 1959P. 27 A Philadelphia correspondent reports that his aunt, a formidable septuagenarian who queens it over a large, well-staffed Main Line residence, recently alarmed him at a family dinner by asking him where she could get a gun cleaned and oiled.
Instead the afternoon was dominated by his great-aunt, the formidable Russian pianist Bella Davidovich.
In the BBC's telling of the story, this magnificent 17th-century mansion and its gardens represented Rosings Park, seat of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr Darcy's aunt.
