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Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships

Big Hero 6

Title: Big Hero 6

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

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

Keywords: social and cultural influences, family relationship, stress and coping, family relationships, media and technology

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: This Disney film is about the relationship between a boy genius and a self made robot nurse. Together they form into a group of superheroes with other friends using self made inventions to find the culprit of the theft of the boy’s invention. Hiro had just finished the inventors fair that would determine whether or not he would be accepted in his brother’s “nerd school” (college that specializes in robotics). After he was given the acceptance letter, a fire broke out at the inventors fair. Tadashi, Hiro’s older brother, went back into the fire to save a professor. Tadashi wasn’t able to make it out and had died in the fire trying to save a life. Hiro is now an orphan with no family members but his aunt and cat in addition to Baymax, the robot nurse Tadashi built. Baymax is the closest thing left of Tadashi that Hiro has left.

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Contributor: Amy Her

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

American Sniper

Title: American Sniper

Date: 2014

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: work and family, social and cultural influences, stress and coping, family relationship, family functioning

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adult

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Chris Kyle, a Navy SEALS sniper, wrestles with family roles, with his humanity, with his commitment to his country, and with his pursuit of a terroristi sniper who has killed several of his men.

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

Contributor: Micah Dalluge

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Avalon

Title: Avalon

Date: 1990

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: social and cultural influences, family relationship

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land. (IMDB, imdb.com/title/tt0099073/)

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

Contributor: Leidy Kasper