Title: Inside Out

Date: 2015

Media type: Film

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Audience(s): Children Under 12, Parents, Couples, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: The movie shows how the main character, Riley, adjusts with moving from Minnesota to California at the young age of 11. Her emotions conflict between her anger, fear, sadness, and joy when she adjusts to the new environment and differences in social support, and makes a rash decision to run away from home in attempt to escape her conflict. The movie goes into depth of how her “emotions” react to Riley’s decision and how the cognitive development of a child is still developing into making more non-impulsive decisions and how the parents respond to Riley’s inability to adapt to the new environment.

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Contributor: Atlee Thompson