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Human Growth and Development

13 Going on 30

Title: 13 Going on 30

Date: 2004

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: adolescence, adulthood, decision-making, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Jenna Rink was humiliated by the popular crowd at her 13th birthday party. She closed her eyes and wished that she was 30, and to her luck, there was some wishing dust that fell on her. To her surprise, she got what she wished for. She had her dream body, a killer apartment, the closet she always imagined, and her dream job at her favorite magazine. However, Jenna realizes that this isn’t the life she wanted. She just wants to be with her best friend Matt. Will she end up with Matt in the end or will she keep the ‘perfect’ life she always dreamed of?

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did Jenna’s parents parent her at her different ages, 13 and 30?

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

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

Human Growth and Development

Juno

Title: Juno

Date: 2007

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: Adolescence, adoption, decision making, parent-child relationships, response to crises, social and cultural influences

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The film follows Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior, who discovers she is pregnant with her best friend Bleeker’s child. Juno goes in for an abortion but quickly decides against it once she is sitting in the office. Instead, she decides to have the baby and place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds the perfect couple in the PennySaver personals and decides they are the couple she wants to choose. After all the papers are signed, the waiting for Juno to have her child begins. The rest of the film follows Juno through her pregnancy and as she processes all that is occurring.

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann