| Overall: | C |
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| Violence: | B |
| Sexual Content: | C- |
| Language: | C- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B- |
| Run Time: | 97 |
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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.
The emotionally charged ending has Bowfinger and his crew watching their film and looking pleased and proud with their efforts. Does the fact that they achieved their goal justify the unethical means they used in the process? Could Bowfinger have made his movie through any other means?

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