Tag Archives: response to crises

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, Family Resource Management, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Pursuit of Happyness

Title: Pursuit of Happyness

Date: 2006

Media type: Film

Format: Clip

Category: Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Family Resource Management, Parenting

Keywords: work and family, family demographics, response to crises, decision-making, financial management, parent-child relationships

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Chris Gardner is a down on his luck guy who ends up losing his livelihood, home, money, and wife and lives on the streets with his son. The movie follows his attempt to get steady work and sell a bone-density scanner he has helped create. The story focuses on Chris Gardner’s work ethic and drive to make a better life for him and his son.

Clip Description: In this scene Chris Gardner has been brought into jail on unpaid parking tickets. He has barely enough to pay his tickets, but as he only has a check he ends up having to wait the night in jail so they can clear the check before they release him. As he is unable to leave he has to call someone to watch his son against his instincts. In addition to having to find care for his son he also has a job interview in the morning for a good job but is in work clothes that are covered in paint.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What role does keeping Gardner in jail do to his life? How, if at all, does imprisoning someone for minor charges help the individual, the city, or the police department? Do you think this scene speak to the cycle of incarceration and poverty?

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Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney