Sandra Dodd

Please help me make these lists and I can save them where they can be
recommended in the future.


About a Boy

Mary Poppins

Searching for Bobby Fisher

Kim H

The Water Horse (a father who died)

The Spiderwicke Chronicles

Kim H



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Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Movies about parent/child relationships


Please help me make these lists and I can save them where they can be
recommended in the future.

About a Boy

Mary Poppins

Searching for Bobby Fisher





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Schuyler

I just watched Pollyanna yesterday. It is sort of about adult/child relationships. It has those wonderful Glad Game moments and lots about how you can change the way the world looks just by changing how you look at it. Of course there is a complete glossing over of the grief a child would be experiencing at the death of both of her parents.

Schuyler
www.waynforth.blogspot.com

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About a Boy

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Sandra Dodd

-=-I just watched Pollyanna yesterday. It is sort of about adult/
child relationships. It has those wonderful Glad Game moments and
lots about how you can change the way the world looks just by
changing how you look at it. Of course there is a complete glossing
over of the grief a child would be experiencing at the death of both
of her parents. -=-

Do you think it should be on the list or not?

I've never seen it.

Sandra





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Joyce Fetteroll

On May 13, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Schuyler wrote:

> I just watched Pollyanna yesterday.

If you haven't read or heard the book, do! It's not only wonderful
but you get a better feeling of Pollyanna putting in the work to be
happy. It's not a simple decision to be happy. She works at changing
her point of view. A lot like people on the list try to help others
to do :-)

Joyce

Kim H

Pollyanna is my Nan's all time favourite movie!

Kim H
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On May 13, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Schuyler wrote:

> I just watched Pollyanna yesterday.

If you haven't read or heard the book, do! It's not only wonderful
but you get a better feeling of Pollyanna putting in the work to be
happy. It's not a simple decision to be happy. She works at changing
her point of view. A lot like people on the list try to help others
to do :-)

Joyce




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Beth Fleming

 
It's not a movie, but my 11 yo dd and I have been watching "Super Nanny" Wednesday nights on TV and having great conversations about why people do things the way they do in realtionship with children....It's been great for us.
Beth


----- Original Message ----
From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:08:19 PM
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Movies about parent/child relationships


Please help me make these lists and I can save them where they can be
recommended in the future.

About a Boy

Mary Poppins

Searching for Bobby Fisher






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Meghan Anderson-Coates

The Education of Little Tree

Freaky Friday (the newer one w/ Jamie Lee Curtis & Lindsay Lohan)




Meghan

"Hey diddle diddle the cat did a piddle, all over the bathroom mat.
The little dog laughed to see such fun, and piddled all over the cat."
~ Anon




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Joanna Murphy

The Disney version, or the 2002 t.v. movie remake?

Joanna

--- In [email protected], "Kim H" <kimlewismark@...> wrote:
>
> Pollyanna is my Nan's all time favourite movie!
>

Schuyler

I think it could initiate interesting discussions about how perspective can change a thing, as well as how adults often discount children. And there are some wonderful scenes with prisms. While watching it I was thinking about how much it is like Annie. An orphan inspires a wealthy person to change the world, starting from within. Annie is all about child/adult relationships.

Along Hayley Mills lines, I've always loved the Parent Trap. Again, it has some really strange things being glossed over, like the fact that neither girl knows the other girl exists. Differences in parenting strategies. Divorce and remarriage and the risks to children when those things happen. One of the most beautiful swimming pools I've ever seen.

The Addams Family, both the series and the movies.

I've been reading a lot of Charlie Brown these days, Linnaea likes to have comics by the toilet. We have a few of the Charlie Brown movies. I've always found the adult "wah wah wah wah wah" fascinating. The fact that parents and teachers are not given voices or much presence in Charlie Brown. Even in the comic books adult presence is minimal.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which is the longest film, has Mr. Potts, the dad, sacrifice work hard to give his children the car that they want. And there is a good scene about why the kids aren't in school.

Those are the ones I can think of at the moment.

Schuyler
www.waynforth.blogspot.com

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From: Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 11:21:32 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Movies about parent/child relationships

-=-I just watched Pollyanna yesterday. It is sort of about adult/
child relationships. It has those wonderful Glad Game moments and
lots about how you can change the way the world looks just by
changing how you look at it. Of course there is a complete glossing
over of the grief a child would be experiencing at the death of both
of her parents. -=-

Do you think it should be on the list or not?

I've never seen it.

Sandra





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Margaret

It is very sad (holocaust, dad dies), but I think "La Vita è bella"
(Life is Beautiful) is an amazing movie about a father and son.

"Hope and Glory" is a movie my siblings and I used to love. It is more
about the whole family, but there is parent child stuff too.

"Sound of Music"

"Where the Heart Is" (1990)



This is a list from a Christian site, but the movies they recommended
about parenting seem quite good:
http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/therapy.html#parentchildrelationship
(categories: parent child relationship, single parents). Might be
helpful. "Frequency" jumped out at me as one I should have thought of
but didn't.


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Sandra Dodd <Sandra@...> wrote:
> Please help me make these lists and I can save them where they can be
> recommended in the future.
>
> About a Boy
>
> Mary Poppins
>
> Searching for Bobby Fisher

Robin

Rigoletto
The Rogue Stallion
Split Infinity

As always, Mi Vida Loca
Robin



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Sandra Dodd

-=-Along Hayley Mills lines, I've always loved the Parent Trap. -=-

Holly and I thought of Parent Trap yesterday. I hadn't added it to
the page yet, but the notes are in my pocket.
Also Freaky Friday! (Similar, and also similar in having an original
and a re-make, both good.)

Sandra





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BRIAN POLIKOWSKY

Cinema Paradiso ( friendship between a boy and an older man)

Dersu Uzala ( friendship between two men)


I know more but just can't remenber or its been named already...



Alex Polikowsky
http://polykow.blogspot.com/



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Margaret

Anime, not a movie, but still great.

The manga "Fruits Basket" is GREAT and would be good for just about
every relationship example that I can think of (parent/child, friends,
family, romantic). It is about a girl who stumbles in to a family
where there is a curse on the family and 13 of them are animals from
the chinese zodiac stories (12 in the zodiac plus the cat) and if they
are hugged by a person of the opposite sex they turn in to that
animal. Sounds a little silly, but it is a great story. It was
recommend to me by my younger brother so I think that it is one that
guys will like too. Highly recommended.

They did make it into an anime and it is well done, but it doesn't get
very far in the story. Definitely worth watching, though, and Netflix
has it. Watch the anime and then you (or your kid) can go get sucked
in to the story and read the manga.

"Hikaru No Go" is a good anime for friendship. (the manga is great
too and has some more side stories, but the anime covers just about
everything)

"Ranma 1/2" does some parent/child stuff although it focuses more on
the friendship/relationship between the two main characters who
presumably marry in the end. Mostly it's just fun and funny, though.

Janet Renk

<<Anime, not a movie, but still great.

The manga "Fruits Basket" is GREAT and would be good for just about
every relationship example that I can think of (parent/child, friends,
family, romantic). It is about a girl who stumbles in to a family
where there is a curse on the family and 13 of them are animals from
the chinese zodiac stories (12 in the zodiac plus the cat) and if they
are hugged by a person of the opposite sex they turn in to that
animal. Sounds a little silly, but it is a great story. It was
recommend to me by my younger brother so I think that it is one that
guys will like too. Highly recommended.>>



How about Spirited Away. We love that one. And Totoro. In fact, we love all Miyazaki movies.

Janet



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graberamy

For older kids:

Little Miss Sunshine

Billy Elliot (well it's about dancing but the relationship between the
boy and his father is a big part)

Into the Wild (not a positive relationship between the parents and son,
but a great example of how coercive parenting can have negative
outcomes)

amy g
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renee_cabatic

Can you put a link to the list of movies?
We'd love to see it---we might have new suggestions but don't know
until we can peruse the list.
thanks,
Renee

Sandra Dodd

-=-Can you put a link to the list of movies?
We'd love to see it---we might have new suggestions but don't know
until we can peruse the list.
thanks,
Renee-=-



The list, at the moment, is in this topic thread. I'm collecting and
will put them on a page, but if you go to the link at the bottom of
the e-mail to the messages in this topic, or to the yahoo site and
click on this topic, there's the list.



Sandra

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Sandra Dodd

-=-The Education of Little Tree-=-

I have an aversion to recommending this on my site because the author misrepresented
himself QUITE fraudulently. Had he said "I made this up," it would've been hunky dorey, but
he lied and I dislike lying and liars *so much* that I wouldn't read it if it and I were on a
desert island. I'd use it for paper, but I wouldn't read it.

Harsh attitude, no doubt, but there are enough honest people (and people who write fiction
without saying it's their own personal autobiography) to keep me busy for my remaining fifty
years, or six months, or whatever it will be.

Being from Albuquerque and a UNM alumnus, I know more of the sordid details than people
in other parts of the country might, I guess, because he lied like blazes to the University of
New Mexico Press.

Sandra

Meghan Anderson-Coates

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-=-The Education of Little Tree-=-

I have an aversion to recommending this on my site because the author misrepresented
himself QUITE fraudulently. Had he said "I made this up," it would've been hunky dorey, but
he lied and I dislike lying and liars *so much* that I wouldn't read it if it and I were on a
desert island. I'd use it for paper, but I wouldn't read it.

Harsh attitude, no doubt, but there are enough honest people (and people who write fiction
without saying it's their own personal autobiography) to keep me busy for my remaining fifty
years, or six months, or whatever it will be.

Being from Albuquerque and a UNM alumnus, I know more of the sordid details than people
in other parts of the country might, I guess, because he lied like blazes to the University of
New Mexico Press.

Sandra

************************

I didn't know about this at all! Is there any truth or reality in it at all or is it total fiction? I'm really disappointed because I really loved the movie. I have to say that I like the message of the movie though. I haven't read the book, so I don't know how close the movie stuck to the book.




Meghan

"Hey diddle diddle the cat did a piddle, all over the bathroom mat.
The little dog laughed to see such fun, and piddled all over the cat."
~ Anon




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Joyce Fetteroll

On May 18, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Meghan Anderson-Coates wrote:

> I didn't know about this at all! Is there any truth or reality in
> it at all or is it total fiction?


This is part of the article from Wikipedia. There are links to more
information at the website both about the story and about the author.
(He also wrote the book that was turned into the Clint Eastwood movie
"The Outlaw Josie Wales.")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_of_Little_Tree

============
The Education of Little Tree is a memoir-style fictional novel
written under the pseudonym Forrest Carter by Asa Earl Carter. Since
its first publication by Delacorte Press in 1976, the book has been
the subject of acclaim. Many people have been drawn to its message of
simple living, tradition, and love of nature. However, The Education
of Little Tree has also been the subject of controversy after the
publication of an article on October 4, 1991 by Dan T. Carter (a
history professor and distant cousin of Asa Carter) called "The
Transformation of a Klansman" in the New York Times. This article
described Asa Carter's past involvement with the Ku Klux Klan.[1]

The novel has spawned films, a sequel attempt and a number of
graduate theses and scholarly articles. In 1985, the University of
New Mexico Press bought the book's rights. It has since sold millions
of copies, a rare level of success for a book distributed by an
academic press, and won the 1991 American Booksellers Association
Book of the Year (ABBY) award.


Literary, Personal and Political Controversies

The book was part of a blossoming period for Native American memoirs
and genre fiction, both before and after it was shown to be a
fictional work posing as factual memoir. The controversies and
discussions surrounding the story are generally centered on these
main areas:

* the clash of the factual details depicted in the book with those of
the author's life

* the clash between the cultural descriptions given in the book with
traditional language and culture as reported by Cherokee reviewers

* the possible legitimacy of fictionalized memoirs by a member of a
privileged class depicting life within an underprivileged class

* the book's possible racial sympathies and the possible intentions
of the author

These issues are magnified by the author's racism earlier in life,
and the fact that little personal information is known about Carter
or his exact state of mind, outside of reports from his wife, between
his withdrawal from political life and the publication of The
Education of Little Tree. Carter was an active participant in several
white supremacist organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan and the
White Citizens' Council. He was also a speechwriter for Alabama
Governor George Wallace, for whom he allegedly wrote Wallace's famous
line, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Although Carter claimed to be part Cherokee, in 1970 he ran for
governor of Alabama on a white supremacist platform. That said, it is
believed by some that Carter wrote The Education of Little Tree from
his childhood memories of his Cherokee uncle.

In the following years, Carter left Alabama, changed his name, and
began his second career as an author, taking care to conceal his
background. He even claimed categorically in a 1976 New York Times
article that he, Forrest, was not Asa Carter.[2]

The publisher's remarks in the original edition of the book
inaccurately describe Carter as "Storyteller in Council" to the
Cherokee Nation. When Carter's background was widely publicized in
1991, the book was reclassified by the publisher as fiction. Today, a
debate continues as to whether the book's lessons are altered by the
identity of the author. As award-winning Native American author
Sherman Alexie has said, "Little Tree is a lovely little book, and I
sometimes wonder if it is an act of romantic atonement by a guilt-
ridden white supremacist, but ultimately I think it is the racial
hypocrisy of a white supremacist."[3]

Members of the Cherokee Nation have said that so-called "Cherokee"
words and many customs in The Education of Little Tree are
inaccurate, and some have said that the novel's characters are
stereotyped. Several scholars and critics have agreed with this
assessment, adding that Carter's treatment of Native Americans
possibly plays into the romantic but racist conceit of the "Noble
Savage."

When Carter died in 1979 he was working on The Wanderings of Little
Tree, a sequel to The Education of Little Tree and on a screenplay
version of the book. Twelve years after Carter's death, the fact that
Forrest Carter was actually Asa Earl Carter was again exposed
(following the original 1976 New York Times expose) by Dan T. Carter,
who was a distant cousin and history professor. The supposed
autobiographical truth of The Education of Little Tree was revealed
to be a hoax.

In 2007, Oprah Winfrey pulled the book from a list of recommended
titles on her web site. While Winfrey had promoted the book on her TV
show in 1994, calling the novel "very spiritual," after learning the
truth about Carter she said she "had to take the book off my shelf."[4]

Despite controversy surrounding the author's identity and legitimacy,
The Education of Little Tree was critically acclaimed and won the
1991 American Booksellers Association Book of the Year (ABBY) award.
In 1997, The Education of Little Tree was adapted into a made-for-TV
movie but was instead given a theatrical release. Despite Carter's
background, The Education of Little Tree remains a classic and much-
loved story.
============

Joyce

Sandra Dodd

-=-I didn't know about this at all! Is there any truth or reality in
it at all or is it total fiction? I'm really disappointed because I
really loved the movie. I have to say that I like the message of the
movie though.-=-

Well there's an opportunity to look at "truth and reality."

I really loved the TV series Kung Fu, when I was in college and it
was new. I really liked the messages. I liked the characters. Was
there any truth or reality in it?

There were useful concepts, and ideas to make me feel all warm and
thoughtful inside. There were ideas that made me like other people
in different ways.

I think I would feel differently if it had been presented as a
documentary of people who actually lived in particular times and places.

Sandra

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Meghan Anderson-Coates

********
This is part of the article from Wikipedia. There are links to more
information at the website both about the story and about the author.
(He also wrote the book that was turned into the Clint Eastwood movie
"The Outlaw Josie Wales.")

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Education_ of_Little_ Tree


*************

Thanks Joyce. Very interesting and disappointing.




Meghan

"Hey diddle diddle the cat did a piddle, all over the bathroom mat.
The little dog laughed to see such fun, and piddled all over the cat."
~ Anon




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