Category Archives: Human Growth and Development

Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Still Walking

Title: Still Walking

Date: 2008

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Growth and Development, Parenting

Keywords: stress and coping, family relationship, family functioning, adulthood, parent-child relationships, various family structures

Rating: NA

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

Language: Japanese

Film/Episode Summary: Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother’s homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed.

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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

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