Tag Archives: decision-making

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.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Family Resource Management, Internal Dynamics of Families

Fly Away Home

Title: Fly Away Home

Date: 1996

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Family Resource Management

Keywords: stress and coping, family relationship, response to crises, conflict management, decision-making, goal-setting

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed in an auto wreck in New Zealand. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life…that is until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when developers began tearing up a local forest. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes “Mama Goose”. The young birds must fly south for the winter, but who will lead them there? With a pair of ultralight airplanes, Amy, her dad and their friends must find a way to do it.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Family Resource Management, Interpersonal Relationships

Everybody Loves Raymond

Title: Everybody Loves Raymond

Date: 1999

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: The Will: S4-E5

Category: Interpersonal Relationship, Family Resource Management

Keywords: communication, conflict management, decision-making

Rating: G

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Upon drafting their wills, Ray and Debra must decide who would make the best guardians for their children. They choose Bernie and Linda, which offends the family. During dinner, when Debra and Ray try to ask Bernie and Linda, the family interrupts and makes them uncomfortable. Bernie and Linda refuse the offer because of their crazy family and Debra and Ray are forced to choose Marie and Frank.

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Contributor: Anonymous