All posts by Paying Lee

Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

The Joy Luck Club

Title: The Joy Luck Club

Date: 1993

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Keywords: family relationships, conflict management, parent-child relationships

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.

Contributor: Anonymous

Health and Human Sexuality, Parenting

Terms of Endearment

Title: Terms of Endearment

Date: 1983

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Parenting, Human Sexuality and Health

Keywords: parent-child relationships, death and dying

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma’s marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora’s interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways.

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

Contributor: Anonymous

Human Growth and Development, Parenting

Tarzan

Title: Tarzan

Date: 1999

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Parenting, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: types of parent, infancy, adolescence, adulthood

Rating: G

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he’s human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to…

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

Contributor: Anonymous