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Human Growth and Development

La La Land

Title: La La Land

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: adulthood, decision making, family relationship, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Mia is an aspiring actress that spends most of her time serving coffee to movie stars and going to auditions. Sebastian is a Jazz musician that spends most of his time playing at cocktail parties and in dimly lit bars in order to get by. Although the two aren’t fond of one another at their first meetings, they develop a beautiful relationship with one another. Together they follow their dreams and try to support one another along the way. In the end, Mia and Sebastian have to decide if they should follow their dreams together or separately.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do Mia’s parents support her in adulthood and how is that different from when she was an adolescent?

Places to view: Amazon Video

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Human Growth and Development

Juno

Title: Juno

Date: 2007

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: Adolescence, adoption, decision making, parent-child relationships, response to crises, social and cultural influences

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The film follows Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior, who discovers she is pregnant with her best friend Bleeker’s child. Juno goes in for an abortion but quickly decides against it once she is sitting in the office. Instead, she decides to have the baby and place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds the perfect couple in the PennySaver personals and decides they are the couple she wants to choose. After all the papers are signed, the waiting for Juno to have her child begins. The rest of the film follows Juno through her pregnancy and as she processes all that is occurring.

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Human Growth and Development

Tangled

Title: Tangled

Date: 2010

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: Adolescence, decision making, response to crisis, family trauma

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Baby Princess Rapunzel, who has been blessed with magical healing powers, is kidnapped in the middle of the night from the palace by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel locks the growing Rapunzel up in a tower that is hidden away in the forest to keep others from accessing the healing powers of Rapunzel’s golden hair. Fast forward to Rapunzel as a teenager with 70-feet worth of golden hair, Princess Rapunzel becomes curious about the outside world. One day, Flynn Rider climbs the tower and holds Rapunzel captive. The pair strike a deal and Flynn Ryder agrees to show Rapunzel the place where the floating light come from. The pair go on a dangerous journey, and Rapunzel ends up finding out more about of herself than she ever imagined.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Focus on Princess Rapunzel’s parents and what ways they continue to search for their daughter and how they never give up the faith that their daughter will be found.

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann