A Movie Analysis Of The Movie Hope Floats

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Hope Floats (Movie Analysis Part 1) Sin Young Nam SWO300-02 September 25, 2014 Abstract This paper will include the analysis of the movie Hope Floats. It will start with a short summary of the movie describing the characters and the plot. It will then discuss the family dynamics that are shown in the movie based on the class discussions and the readings. It will also include a variety of issues that are shown throughout the movie. This paper will discuss three key family system’s issues that includes the family concepts, assessing one from Bowen’s concepts, one from Minuchin’s concepts, and one from General Systems Theory/Anderson and Sabatelli concepts. There are many different scenes and examples in this movie that will give a better understanding of the many different family dynamics, family issues, and family system concepts. Hope Floats is a romance and drama movie that was released in 1998, directed by …show more content…

Adaptability focuses attention on how the family customarily responds to stress or the demands for changes in its existing customs (Anderson and Sabatelli, page 12). In this movie, Birdee had went through changes to took control of herself when she decided to move out of her home in Chicago and move in with her mother and Travis with her daughter Bernice. Birdee went back to her hometown because she wanted to go back to the roots and wanted to close to family to deal with her stress. There are many more examples throughout this movie that can be connected or assessed to the many different concepts that was learned. There are many real-life events and these concepts are important because they allow people to see how different types of people and families deal with stress and problems and it is important not to judge or jump to conclusions and maybe take a step back and take time to consider what others may be going

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