Tag Archives: family relationship

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

Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

Dad

Title: Dad

Date: 1989

Media type: Film

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

Keywords: work and family, family relationship, communication, developmental stage, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A busy, “always-on-the-run” executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father’s caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man’s wife. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.

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Contributor: Anonymous