Category Archives: Health and Human Sexuality

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

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Family Resource Management, Health and Human Sexuality, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships

Normal

Title: Normal

Date: 2003

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Sexuality, Interpersonal Relationships, Family Resource Management, Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: family relationship, family functioning, response to crises, conflict management, ethical sexual relationship, communication, developmental stage, personality, decision-making, community resources, diverse cultural value

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: In the countryside of the United States of America, Irma Applewood and her husband Roy Applewood have been happily married for twenty-five years and they are model citizens in their community. Roy brings Irma to meet Reverend Dale Muncie, who is their pastor and friend, to tell that he is a woman trapped in a man’s body and he will have a sex-change operation. Now Roy has to face the deception of his wife and the intolerance of his colleagues, members of his church and his son Wayne. But Irma loves him and after the impact of the news, she understands and supports him with their teenage daughter Patty Ann (Hayden Panettiere) and Roy’s boss Frank (‘Clancy Brown’) that is their friend.

Places to view: Only available for purchase

Contributor: Anonymous

Health and Human Sexuality, Internal Dynamics of Families

Hannah and Her Sisters

Title: Hannah and Her Sisters

Date: 1986

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Sexuality and Health

Keywords: family relationship, family functioning, response to crises, sexual intimacy

Rating: PG-13

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: During a Thanksgiving Day party we make acquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who…; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah’s husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving …

Contributor: Anonymous