2. Literature Review 

     Everyone’s Fine is one of the typical American warmth films, which has two themes: heroism and family. Different people have different opinions about a work. Many audiences are moved by this film, especially Liu Xue and Ma Qiang. They analyze this work from all aspects, making us better understand the American family values, including comprising to Chinese family（Liu Xue＆Ma Qiang,2013:7）. Many scholars study the differences between China and the United Stated from lots of aspects and family value is one important point of them. Family is the carrier to present the social cultures. To a certain extent, family value is one of the most significant factors to decide the persity of culture. Therefore, family structure, education, relationship of marriage and family communication way are the entry points to do the researches.

There are many forms can reflect the differences of various cultures and film is one good material to analyse these differences. Accordingly many research articles are based on Cross-cultural films. These films reflect adequately the conflict between China and the United Stated, such as Gua Sha, Pushing Hand and The Joy Lucky Club, which are classical cross-cultural films. These conflicts the film shows in an exquisite way, which really exist in real life, even more drastically. Starting from these cross-cultural films, we can more fully understand the differences between two countries, which can help us to prevent culture shock in inter-cultural communication. At the same time, we can learn some excellent cultural essence from each other, which can be used to change ours undesirable cultural vice. There is a Chinese saying: we believe that there are ways to keep the positive attributes of flash, while removing the negatives. What we try to do is what this sentence saying.文献综述

3. Differences in Family Structure

     The family is the foundation of social composition while society is the carrier of culture. Different cultures of China and the United States make the two countries have formed unique family structures. The biggest scale of American family structure is nuclear family while extended family is the largest one in China.

     Nuclear family is constituted by the father, mother and children. American family form is perse. Dink family is a new type of family relationship, which is the useful exploration of the family structure at the background of the trunk family and the nuclear family. In contrast, in China, the family is based on kinship ties, composed by several generations of family members, relatives or pro-marriage relationship, which is called dilated or extended family, emphasizing collectivism. Since the implementation of Chinese family planning, structural integrity and the smallest one-child family model has become the typical pattern of the city (Feng Xiaotian, 1992:1).