Mrs Doubtfire Movie Analysis

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Mrs. Doubtfire is a movie about a family whose parents end up getting a divorce and the father becomes their baby sitter under disguise. The mother and father both work all of the time and never have time for on another. When one works the other one does not and when the wife gets to come home early to get to spend time with her husband there is always other things that need done such as cleaning. They fight often and after she comes home to see that her husband has thrown a pretty wild part for their sons twelfth birthday party she finally says she wants a to divorce him. The father, Daniel, is the main character and later becomes Mrs. Doubtfire. The mother’s name is Miranda she works all the time. Their three children are Natalie, Christopher, …show more content…

But then he gets serious about it, finally calls her, and she ended up wanting to interview him. Miranda ask what his name was before they got off of the phone and he told her it was Mrs. Doubtfire. At this point Daniel went to his brother and told him that he needed him to make him into a woman. His brother is a example of extended family which our books states is, “ a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin; also known as consanguine family (Macionis, 2014, p. 510).” Frank is not only a son but also a brother, brother-in-law, Uncle, and cousin as well, which is exactly what extended family …show more content…

It was a very family based and had lots of areas in which you could relate information from our Sociology book to it. The reason I used the terms I did was because I felt that they were the ones that best fit in with the movie in my eyes. I felt like chapter eighteen over “Families” and chapter six over “Social Interaction in Everyday Life” were the best two chapters out of the book that I was able to pull information from because the movie had a lot to do with families, how they interact with one another daily, and how their bonds grow as their relationships do. The other chapters I used were helpful, but these two I feel were able to help me pull the most accurate and specific information from the text that I could to benefit the points I wanted to

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