Fraught
Fraught adjective - Marked by distress.
Usage example: a fraught mother-daughter relationship
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His next film Heaven's Gate was fraught with troubled production on a far greater scale.
Source: Creator / Michael Cimino -
Lost Universe, which had only one season, fraught with Troubled Production; a second season was due to follow, but because of a financial pitfall occurring through animation studios at the time, it was held off in favor of more Slayers media, and may be still.
Source: Development Hell - It tends to imply a Troubled Production as well, as the term was coined during one: IBM's System/360 project in the 1960s, which was fraught with delays, feature creep and general loss of morale (one key lesson learned was "adding workers to a late project just makes it later").
Source: Follow Up Failure
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