MC From the Skolnick & Skolnick Reader 2009 Its Complicated Film Analysis Essay

Movie Response, Divorce and Stepfamilies

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Using Netflix, YouTube, on demand, any of the “video collections” links offered from the MC Library webpage (scroll down to click on “research Guides” from the MC Libraries home page, then scroll to click on “video collections”), or any method available to you, watch a movie that portrays a family (or families) going through/coping with a divorce or a step family (families).

After watching a film that portrays some aspect of divorce and/or stepfamilies, respond to the following.

• Write the title (and date of its release) of the movie you watched.
• In a short paragraph, summarize the plot of the movie.
• Making at least one specific connection to any of the assigned readings for the week, discuss the portrayal/presentation of divorce/stepfamilies in the film. (The Rutter reading might be a good option for this question.) “Divorce in Research vs. Divorce in Media” pg 159
• What transitions were presented in the film? How did some of the role expectations change? What coping mechanisms (if any) were shown?
• Do you feel that the movie presented the divorce/stepfamily in a way that is consistent with the realities of these families? In a way that is unrealistic? Make at least two specific connections between information in our assigned readings and the film to answer these questions.