Movie List for Project
1) 28 Days
2) A Beautiful Mind
3) A Star is Born
4) Girl Interrupted
5) Taxi Driver
6) Cyberbully
7) The Mask
8) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
9) Fear
10) Finding Nemo
11) Waking Madison
12) Wonderpark
13) Silver Lining Playbook
14) American Psycho
15) Shutter Island
16) Stranger than Fiction
17) SPLIT
18) Suicide Squad
19) The Other Sister
20) As Good as it Gets
21) What’s Eating Gilbert Great
22) Gone Baby Gone
23) Alice in Wonderland
24) Chicken Little
25) Little Miss Sunshine
26) The Soloist
Criteria for Grading the Review of a Film
The students will select a film that captures the human experience of emotional distress and will review it according to the written criteria listed below. A typewritten summary covering the criteria is required. The paper should not exceed three double spaced pages. This paper should be in APA format with cover page, abstract and reference page.
Criteria:
Points:
1. Paper should be in APA format/spelling/grammar
5
2. As you view the film, answer these questions and include your
Answers in the written paper and in your class presentation.
a. What specific psychiatric disease is depicted?
5
b. What characteristics of the disorder are evident?
5
c. What societal or cultural attitudes are reflected?
5
d. What ethical questions are brought to light?
5
e. Has your knowledge of psychiatric community mental
health nursing changed how you respond to the film or the
characters?
5
f. How could you use the film to help patients, families,
communities, or health care staff to better understand
mental illness or its treatment?
5
3. Form a nursing care plan with one of the characters in the film 25
you viewed. List 3 specific nursing interventions you would include
in your nursing care and state the rationale for each intervention.
4. Consider what you can do to foster an attitude of understanding, 5
empathy and respect toward people with the illness depicted in
the film.
5. Summary comments
5
6. Class presentation: must include all of the information above. In addition
you must include clips from your movie that depict the characteristics of the
disease/disorder. You must present all of this in 45 minutes—so be sure
to practice your presentation.
30
Reference SBSN 441