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Families in Society, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships

Liar Liar

Title: Liar Liar

Date: 1997

Media type: Film

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

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

Rating: PG-13

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

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Fletcher Reede, a fast talking attorney, habitual liar, and divorced father is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He has a habit of giving precedence to his job and always breaking promises to be with his favorite young son Max, but Fletcher lets Max down once too often, for missing his own son’s birthday party. But until then at 8:15 Max has decided to make an honest man out of him as he wishes for one whole day his dad couldn’t tell a lie. When the wish comes true all Fletcher can do is tell the truth and cannot tell one lie. Uh-oh for Fletcher!

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Contributor: Anonymous

Families in Society, Human Growth and Development, Interpersonal Relationships

Jerry Maguire

Title: Jerry Maguire

Date: 1996

Media type: Film

Category: Families in Society, Human Growth and Development, Interpersonal Relationships

Keywords: work and family, adulthood, conflict management, developmental stage, personality

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients, the respect, a beautiful fiancée, he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world, and finally comes to terms with what’s wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a mission statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions aren’t met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renée Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had. Along the way he faces the harsh truths which he’d ignored in the past and a host of hardships that he’d never faced before.

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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