Category Archives: Interpersonal Relationships

Antwone Fisher

Title: Antwone Fisher

Date: 2002

Media type: Film

Category: Interpersonal Relationships, Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Couple and Family Counseling

Keywords: communication, conflict management, adolescence, adulthood, response to crises, family relationship, therapy, dysfunction

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: discussion: Discuss with learners the conditions observed of Antwone’s early life. How might these have impacted his relationships with others? How might his early background affect his behavior toward others?

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

Contributor: Laura M. Stanton

Big Hero 6

Title: Big Hero 6

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Families in Society

Keywords: social and cultural influences, family relationship, stress and coping, family relationships, media and technology

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: This Disney film is about the relationship between a boy genius and a self made robot nurse. Together they form into a group of superheroes with other friends using self made inventions to find the culprit of the theft of the boy’s invention. Hiro had just finished the inventors fair that would determine whether or not he would be accepted in his brother’s “nerd school” (college that specializes in robotics). After he was given the acceptance letter, a fire broke out at the inventors fair. Tadashi, Hiro’s older brother, went back into the fire to save a professor. Tadashi wasn’t able to make it out and had died in the fire trying to save a life. Hiro is now an orphan with no family members but his aunt and cat in addition to Baymax, the robot nurse Tadashi built. Baymax is the closest thing left of Tadashi that Hiro has left.

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

Contributor: Amy Her

This American Life

Title: This American Life

Media type: Podcast

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: #521 Bad Baby

Category: Parenting, Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: parent-child relationships, dilemmas

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Parents relate extreme challenges faced by a son who wreaks havoc in the house, causes physical harm and poses a threat to his younger brother.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What is is like for this family living with a child like this? What influences their decisions whether to keep the child at home or have him institutionalized? Do you agree?

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

Contributor: Susan Walker