movie analysis-AKEELAH AND THE BEE (2006)

Recommended Movie List

Feel free to choose from one of the following movies for this assignment. You are also more than welcome to choose a different movie as long as it involves one or more important characters who are between infancy and adolescence and have enough interesting scenes/behaviors for you to analyze.

Infancy (Birth–2 years)

• Babies (2010) • Three Men and a Baby (1987) • Storks (2016) • The Boss Baby (2017) • Baby Geniuses (1999) • Life as We Know It (2010) • Fatherhood (2021)

Toddlerhood / Early Childhood (2–6 years)

• Inside Out (2015) • Daddy Day Care (2003) • Room (2015) • Matilda (1996) • Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Middle Childhood / School Age (6–11 years)

• Wonder (2017) • The Florida Project (2017) • Home Alone (1990) • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) • Akeelah and the Bee (2006) • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) • The Little Rascals (1994)

Early Adolescence (Approximately 11–14 years)

• Turning Red (2022) • Inside Out 2 (2024) • Eighth Grade (2018) • Boyhood (2014) • Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

Middle/Late Adolescence (Approximately 14–18 years)

• Lady Bird (2017)

• The Edge of Seventeen (2016) • The Breakfast Club (1985) • Mean Girls (2004) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) • The Perks of Being a Wwallflower • Clueless (1995)

Parents Raising Children Across Different Developmental Stages

• Tully (2018) • Parenthood (1989)