All posts by Paying Lee

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Title: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Date: 1993

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: stress and coping

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

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

Contributor: Anonymous

Whale Rider

Title: Whale Rider

Date: 2002

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society

Keywords: social and cultural influences

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Places to view:  Youtube

Contributor: Anonymous

Used People

Title: Used People

Date: 1992

Media type: Film

Category: Couple and Family Counseling

Keywords: cognitive intimacy

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: At her husband’s funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl…

Places to view: Amazon Video, Itunes

Contributor: Anonymous