14 Up in America
Description
The second installment of the U.S. version of the classic British documentary series, this film updates viewers on the children featured in Age 7 in America. It follows the young subjects seven years later as they come to terms with adolescence, facing new challenges relating to school, violence, financial status, and family and divorce. In Chicago, LeRoy and Kennisha still fear violence and gangs, although Kennisha's family has moved out of the housing project and is enjoying a precariously improved quality of life. In New York, Lucy, Alexis, and Kate still benefit from a privileged lifestyle but it is marked by its own brand of stress and tension. In Los Angeles, Julio is growing up fast - his scenes reveal a young man bent on self-determination and an awareness of the need to "stretch a dollar." The program makes excellent use of footage from the previous episode for comparison and contrast.
Runtime
59 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Adulthood (96)
- Choice (Psychology) (44)
- Interpersonal relations (422)
- Education (938)
- Families (556)
- Child development (475)
- Personality (110)
- Self (67)
- Adolescence (297)
- Work and family (89)
- Intimacy (Psychology) (93)
- Developmental psychology (215)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c1998
Database
Films on Demand
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