Category Archives: Interpersonal Relationships

Families in Society, Human Growth and Development, Interpersonal Relationships

Jerry Maguire

Title: Jerry Maguire

Date: 1996

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Human Growth and Development, Interpersonal Relationships

Keywords: work and family, adulthood, conflict management, developmental stage, personality

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients, the respect, a beautiful fiancée, he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world, and finally comes to terms with what’s wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a mission statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions aren’t met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renée Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had. Along the way he faces the harsh truths which he’d ignored in the past and a host of hardships that he’d never faced before.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Family Life Education and Methodology, Family Resource Management, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships

Forest Gump

Title: Forest Gump

Date: 1994

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Family Resource Management, Family Life Education Methodology

Keywords: family relationship, family functioning, response to crises, conflict management, decision-making, teaching methods, learning environments

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His ‘mama’ teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

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

Contributor: Anonymous

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

Dad

Title: Dad

Date: 1989

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

Keywords: work and family, family relationship, communication, developmental stage, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A busy, “always-on-the-run” executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father’s caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man’s wife. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

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Contributor: Anonymous