Tag Archives: stress and coping

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.

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

Contributor: Amy Her

Health and Human Sexuality, Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Love Actually

Title: Love Actually

Date: 2003

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Sexuality, Parenting, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: stress and coping, family relationship, middle childhood, adolescence, parent-child relationships, step-fathering

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A romantic comedy set in London. The film follows10 intertwining love stories. All of the stories collide for the climax on Christmas Eve.

Clip Description: Sam, a young boy, has just experienced the death of his mother. His stepfather finds out that he is not just coping with this, but also the experience of a developing first love. Rather than ask and assuming who “she” is, the stepfather asks Sam who “he/she is” and supports the young boy in understanding the feeling of love regardless of age.

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

Contributor: Jessica Shankman

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