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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?

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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

Internal Dynamics of Families

Me Before You

Title: Me Before You

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: adulthood, decision-making, parent-child relationships, response to crisis, stress and coping, types of parents

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Lou Clark is a quaint young lady that is enjoying a fun filled life. That is until she loses her job at The Buttered Bun Tea show, and she doesn’t know if she’s still in love with her long-term boyfriend Patrick. Lou scours the newspapers every day looking for a job so she can help support her family. In the process she stumbles on a caregiver position. Even though she has never done it before, she is willing to give it a shot. She ends up being a caretaker for a very wealthy man, Will Traynor. Will was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed, and he has completely lost his will to live. He plans on putting a stop to the pain, and then Lou Clack enters his life with all her happiness, joyous attitude, and laughter. Will love change Will’s decision or will it only bring happiness to his final days?

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: In what ways do Lou and Will have different relationships with their parents?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann