Tag Archives: family relationship

Couple and Family Counseling, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Harold and Maude

Title: Harold and Maude

Date: 1971

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting, Couple and Family Counseling

Keywords: family relationship, parent-child relationships, parenting style, therapy, conflict management

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Self-destructive and needy but wealthy teenager Harold is obsessed with death and spends his leisure time attending funerals, watching the demolition of buildings, visiting junkyards, simulating suicides trying to get the attention of his indifferent, snobbish and egocentric mother, and having sessions with his psychologist. When Harold meets the anarchic seventy-nine-year-old Maude at a funeral, they become friends and the old lady discloses other perspectives of the cycle of life for him. Meanwhile, his mother enlists him in a dating service and tries to force him to join the army. On the day of Maude’s eightieth birthday, Harold proposes to her but he finds the truth about life at the end of hers.

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Contributor: Anonymous

Health and Human Sexuality, Internal Dynamics of Families

Hannah and Her Sisters

Title: Hannah and Her Sisters

Date: 1986

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Sexuality and Health

Keywords: family relationship, family functioning, response to crises, sexual intimacy

Rating: PG-13

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: During a Thanksgiving Day party we make acquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who…; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah’s husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving …

Contributor: Anonymous

Internal Dynamics of Families

Gordy

Title: Gordy

Date: 1995

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: family relationship, response to crises, conflict management

Rating: G

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: This is the story of a talking cute piglet named Gordy, who gets involved in a big quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse, where no pigs have ever returned. And it’s all up to him to find and save them before they get turned into sausage!

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Contributor: Anonymous