Category Archives: Internal Dynamics of Families

Internal Dynamics of Families

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Title: Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Date: 2013

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: adolescence, adulthood, conflict management, family demographics, parent-child relationships, parenting style, step-parent, types of parents

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The Baker family wants to make one last trip out to their old lake house while the family can still get all together. When they get there, the house is a little more rundown than they remember. Also, across the lake their arch enemies, the Murtaugh family have upgraded to a full blown mansion. The two families have a long standing rivalry between one another and this vacation is no exception.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do the Baker parents and Murtaugh parents parent differently from one another?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Internal Dynamics of Families

Sisters

Title: Sisters

Date: 2015

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: Adulthood, parent-child relationships, types of parents

Rating: R-Restricted

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Kate and Maura’s Ellis’s parents are selling their childhood home. The sisters are asked to go back to their childhood home and clean out their old bedrooms. Once they get there, they decide to throw one last party to relive their glory days . They invite their old high school friends and classmates over and their party turns into a major rager. From the outside, it looks like a regular teenage party, but on the inside it is a bunch of adults getting drunk and doing things that they will probably regret in the morning.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What do Kate and Maura’s relationships with their parents look like now that they are adults?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Internal Dynamics of Families

Mamma Mia!

Title: Mamma Mia!

Date: 2008

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: adulthood, single parenting, parent-child relationship, fathering

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Sophie has loved living on her small Greek island with her mother, Donna. Sophie, who is planning her wedding, reads her mother’s diaries to find out who her father is so that she can invite them to the wedding. It turns out, there are three men that are potentially her father so she invites all of them to the island for the wedding without the knowledge of her mother. Who is Sophie’s father and what will Donna do when she finds out who is coming to her daughter’s wedding?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann