family affairs theme

also known as: family

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

StoryLevelMotivation
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.