This 1979 film offers three short, open-ended dramatizations of alcohol abuse designed to stimulate educational discussion from the audience. In the first, called âThe Party,â the new boy at school offers his classmates the use of his house for a drinking party while his parents are away. The second, âThe Mother,â shows a drunken mom picking up her daughter and a friend at the mall, embarrassing the daughter in the process and exploring the danger of teens with an alcoholic parent. The last short, entitled âThe Ride,â shows younger students pressured to drink and then engaging in teenage drunk driving. The following discussion should be about the dangers of substance abuse, the effects of alcohol, and drunk driving accidents.
