Title: Mean Girls
Date: 2004
Media type: Film
Category: Human Growth and Development
Keywords: adolescence, types of parent (nonbiological, mentor)
Rating: PG-13
Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults
Language: English
Film/Episode Summary: New girl comes to high school for the first time. Encounters the social politics of cliques and relational aggression.
Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes
Contributor: Susan Walker
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
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.
Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes
Contributor: Anonymous
