Tag Archives: parenting styles

American Beauty

Title: American Beauty

Date: 1999

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: adolescence, conflict management, family functioning, parent-child relationships, parenting styles

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: From the outside, Lester and Carolyn Burnham are the picture perfect couple living in a picture perfect neighborhood. On the inside, Lester is feeling lost and depressed. He also has an interesting relationship with his daughter and her friend. Next door lives another teenager, Ricky, who has an abusive father.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do Jane and Ricky’s parents differ in their parenting styles?

Places to view: iTunes, YouTube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Friends with Benefits

Title: Friends with Benefits

Date: 2011

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Sexuality

Keywords: adulthood, parenting styles

Rating: R – Restricted

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Jamie Rellis (Mila Kunis) is a New York City head-hunter trying to sign Los Angeles-based art director Dylan Harper (Justin Timberlake) for her client. When he takes the job and makes the move, they quickly become friends. Their friendship turns into a friendship with benefits, but with Jamie’s emotionally damaged past and Dylan’s history of being emotionally unavailable, they have to try to not fall for each other the way Hollywood romantic comedies dictate. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1632708/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did Jamie’s mother respond to her involvement with Dylan?

Places to view: iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Amazon Video, Vudu

Contributor: Krista Hamann

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