Tag Archives: family relationship

Families in Society

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

Internal Dynamics of Families

Hidden Figures

Title: Hidden Figures

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: family demographics, family relationship, parenting styles, single parenting, work and family

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes. (Taraji P. Henson – Katherine G. Johnson, Octavia Spencer – Dorothy Vaughan, Janelle Monae – Mary Jackson (engineer)) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Places to view: Google Play, YouTube

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Human Growth and Development

La La Land

Title: La La Land

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: adulthood, decision making, family relationship, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Mia is an aspiring actress that spends most of her time serving coffee to movie stars and going to auditions. Sebastian is a Jazz musician that spends most of his time playing at cocktail parties and in dimly lit bars in order to get by. Although the two aren’t fond of one another at their first meetings, they develop a beautiful relationship with one another. Together they follow their dreams and try to support one another along the way. In the end, Mia and Sebastian have to decide if they should follow their dreams together or separately.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do Mia’s parents support her in adulthood and how is that different from when she was an adolescent?

Places to view: Amazon Video

Contributor: Krista Hamann