Title: Finding Dory
Date: 2016
Media type: Film
Rating: PG
Audience(s): Children Under 12, Families
Language: English
Film/Episode Summary: The friendly but forgetful blue tang fish, Dory, begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way. (IMDB, imdb.com/title/tt2277860)
Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Netflix
Contributor: Anonymous
Title: Pieces of April
Date: 2003
Media type: Film
Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships
Keywords: family relationship, communication
Rating: PG-13
Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults
Language: English
Film/Episode Summary: In a very poor zone of New York, April Burns and her boyfriend, the Afro-American Bobby, are preparing to receive April’s family for thanksgiving dinner. While Bobby tries to borrow a suit for himself, April realizes that her stove is broken. She tries desperately to find a neighbor that can let her cook the turkey, since she does not want to fail (again) with her family. Meanwhile, in a suburb of Pennsylvania, her dysfunctional family is preparing to travel to New York. While driving, the relationship between the Burns and their black-sheep April is disclosed through the conversations between her father Jim, her resented mother Joy, her brother, her sister and her grandmother.
Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes
Contributor: Anonymous
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
