Stages Of Human Development: Hollywood's Perception

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6 pages in length. The chasm that exists between how Hollywood portrays human development and the way it is in reality is sometimes as wide as the Sahara Desert with the entertainment industry relying too much upon embellishment rather than fact. Examining adolescence, middle adulthood and late adulthood through the eyes of Hollywood's perspective, one can clearly see the poetic license filmmakers take with developmental factors when the ultimate objective is for the purpose of amusement or exaggeration. Other films, however, do take to heart both the troublesome and joyous aspects of age-specific development by depicting them in a more realistic light. Bibliography lists 3 sources.