family financial problem theme
A family struggles to pay for essentials, like rent, house repairs, college tuition, etc.
Examples
A Florida school teacher worried that his family would need to tighten their belts in order to be able to send his son to university in the television film "Stowaway to the Moon" (1975).
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror7x01 | major | Amanda and Mike increasingly struggled to foot the monthly bill for the cost of Amanda's brain implant. |
| movie: Cosmic Slop (1994) | major | In "Tang": Tang was selling blood and participating in clinical trials to support herself and her unemployed boyfriend T-Bone. |
| movie: Million Dollar Duck (1971) | major | Albert and Katie were struggling to pay the billed until Albert brought home a golden egg laying duck. |
| movie: Scenes from a Marriage (1974) | major | money was a recurring issue that may not have been central in most of the talks, but seemed to aggravate all the problems |
| tftc1989e3x03 | major | Lou and Irene were struggling to pay the bills, leading Lou to come up with the idea of faking his own death to cash in on his $500,000 life insurance policy. |
| tz2002e1x22 | major | Gabe and his wife were up to their ears in expenses that he could not afford. |
| ahh3x20 | minor | Gavin and Nicky called their daughter in the end to assure their financial troubles were over. |
| ahp6x08 | minor | Cash and Louise lacked the money to keep up on their club dues and pay to have their young son's teeth straightened. |
| movie: And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991) | minor | Sarah was hard enough up for money that she accepted half of her sons' $1000 in contest winnings. Sarah told her two sons that they'd need to sell the house because they could no longer afford it. |
| movie: SpiderMan 2 (2004) | minor | Both Peter and Aunt May were struggling pay their bills. |