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Making a Decision in the Family
19576 min 48 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Julia Murphy
Production: Nicholas Balla
Script: Gudrun Parker
This film presents the same situation for discussion as does the film Making a Decision but slants it towards adults. It carries the question a bit further in that it brings in the matter of parental authority. When a high-school girl declares her preference for going to a gathering of her own friends rather than to a family gathering, she runs headlong into her parent's objections. It is their decision and not hers which is to abide. The result is a clash of wills. The question of what might have been a better approach is left with the film audience.
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Subject categories
- Families > AdolescentsFamily ConflictsParent-Child Relationships
- Children and Youth > Child Rearing and DevelopmentFamily Life
Credits
- director
- Julia Murphy
- producer
- Nicholas Balla
- script
- Gudrun Parker
- photography
- Robert Humble
- sound
- George Croll
- editing
- Gilbert Choquette