family affairs theme
This is a general theme about interpersonal relations, interactions, and those sorts of issues that arise among members of a family.
Examples
"divorce", "family honor", "inheritance fight", and "human parenting", are examples of some "family affairs" themes that are summed up succinctly in a couple of words.
44 total · 5 choice · 36 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Daughters of the Dust (1991) | choice | the story featured many typical little problems within the Peazant family |
| movie: How Green Was My Valley (1940) | choice | Everything about the story centers around the Morgans, a mining family living in Wales during the late Victorian era. |
| movie: Meet the Hollowheads (1989) | choice | The film is essentially a parody on family life as it was portrayed in 1950s sitcoms. |
| tng4x02 | choice | the Picard's, the Crushers, and the Worf's |
| voy3x22 | choice | The Doctor with his holo-family |
| as1985e2x16 | major | The story explores life in a stereotypical American nuclear family through the eyes of a pet dog. |
| movie: Coneheads (1993) | major | The viewer is show the day to day family life of a conical-shaped headed alien married couple and their teenage daughter as they lived secretly as humans in Paramus, New Jersey. |
| movie: Donnie Darko (2001) | major | Featured throughout the story was the everyday life of the Darko family: a borderline dysfunctional suburban American family of five. |
| movie: Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992) | major | We saw a Disneyfied depiction of what might happen when a loving father inadvertently uses his matter expanding ray on his toddler son. |
| movie: Honey I Shrunk the Kids (1989) | major | We saw a Disneyfied depiction of what might happen when a father accidentally shrinks his kids and loses them in the backyard. |