| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | A |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | B- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | -- |
| Run Time: | 95 |
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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.
In an early scene when Jack returns, he hears a radio for the first time. Proclaiming the radio to be “a miracle”, Kate insists that it isn’t, but instead is a product of science. At the end of the film, the radio provides the music that allows the sisters to dance together. How does the radio prove to be both a miracle as well as a benefit of science?
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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.
