| Overall: | B |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | A- |
| Language: | C |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C+ |
| Run Time: | 104 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 09 Jul 2007 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
At one point Charles Farmer says, “Somewhere along the line we stopped believing that we can do anything. And if we don’t have our dreams we have nothing.” As a society, do you think we are less willing to take risks for science and other worthwhile causes? Was Charles Farmer’s dream worth risking his life for?
A joke in this movie refers to the Bush administration’s inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What other politically motivated remarks in this movie are based on recent real life events? How do comments that relate to reality, along with fake interviews—such as the one with Jay Leno—add to the sense that this movie (which is a complete work of fiction) is presenting a true story?
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About the Reviewer: Rod Gustafson
Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
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