All posts by Paying Lee

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Secrets and Lies

Title: Secrets and Lies

Date: 1996

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: family demographics, family relationship

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer’s business and now lives nearby in a more upmarket house. But Cynthia hasn’t even been invited round there after a year. So, all round, she feels rather lonely and isolated. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Hortense, adopted at birth but now grown up, starts to try and trace her mother.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Families in Society, Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families

Rebel Without a Cause

Title: Rebel Without a Cause

Date: 1955

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: social and cultural influences, family relationship, adolescence

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that’s why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn’t get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato’s adulation and Ray’s real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and “chickie” games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Families in Society, Family Resource Management, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

A Raisin in the Sun

Title: A Raisin in the Sun

Date: 1961

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Family Resource Management, Parenting

Keywords: work and family, stress and coping, family functioning, financial management, various family structures

Rating: PG

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall…

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Contributor: Anonymous