Category Archives: Families in Society

Pride and Prejudice

Title: Pride and Prejudice

Date: 2005

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Families in Society

Keywords: parent-child relationships, adolescence, decision-making, cultural influences, types of parents

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The protagonist Elizabeth Bennett is a witty, sarcastic, somewhat stubborn young lady who really has an opinion about quite a lot including why she would not marry simply because of it is expected of her. Mr. Guy Darcy is a shy, rich, man who defiantly believes there is such a thing as superior birth. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414387/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Places to view: iTunes, Amazon Video, Vudu

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Dirty Dancing

Title: Dirty Dancing

Date: 1987

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Families in Society

Keywords: adolescence, family demographics, family relationship, parent-child relationships, work and family, types of parents

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: In 1963, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl’s life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse – that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Places to view: YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play, ITunes, Vudu

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Neighbors

Title: Neighbors

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Families in Society

Keywords: decision making, conflict management, response to crisis

Rating: R – Restricted

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Parents, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Kelly and Mac are excited to move into their new home with their newborn daughter, only to find out that the house they bought is next to a fraternity. One night, Kelly and Mac go over to the fraternity and ask the fraternity president, Pete, to turn the music down because their daughter is sleeping. One night when the fraternity doesn’t keep the noise down, Mac calls the police. With that one call, Kelly and Mac started a war with the fraternity.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What steps do Kelly and Mac take to protect their daughter over the course of the movie? Do you think the couple’s actions would have been if their daughter was a different age?

Places to view: Itunes, Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play

Contributor: Krista Hamann