Category Archives: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Something Borrowed

Title: Something Borrowed

Date: 2011

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: Adulthood, decision-making, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned’

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Rachel and Darcy have been best friends since childhood. When Rachel goes off to law school, she meets a man, Dex, who she falls in love with. Rachel never had the courage to tell Dex about her feelings, and as a result, her best friend Darcy went after Dex and now they are engaged to be married. Eventually, Rachel and Dex start an affair behind Darcy’s back while she is busy with wedding planning.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do Rachel and Darcy’s parent react to the predicament that they have put themselves in? How active of a role do you think their parents should have played considering that their children are now adults?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Identity Thief

Title: Identity Thief

Date: 2013

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: decision-making, family relationship, financial management

Rating: R – Restricted

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Sandy Patterson gets a call one day that his identity has been stolen. At the risk of losing his job over his stolen identity, Sandy leaves his wife and children and decides to travel across the country to find the other Sandy that has stolen his identity. The movie follows Sandy as he tracks down the thief and tries to clear his name.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do Sandy’s wife and children react to him leaving them behind to clear his name? Do you think it was a good idea to for Sandy’s children to meet and become attached to their father’s impersonator?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

A Beautiful Mind

Title: A Beautiful Mind

Date: 2001

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: adulthood, family conflict, family trauma, response to crisis, work and family

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The movie follows John Nash as he makes brilliant discoveries but also struggles with schizophrenia without knowing it. He becomes aware of schizophrenia after he got married and learns his wife is pregnant with their child. He became aware of his mental illness after his wife checked him into a mental institution. The rest of the movie follows John as he learns how to live life with a mental illness.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did mental illness impair Nash from being a father to his child? How did his wife have to pick up the slack to raise their child?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann