| Overall: | C- |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | C |
| Language: | D+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B |
| Run Time: | 92 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 06 Dec 2004 |
| MPAA Rating: | |
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| How We Determine Our Grades | |
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 the start of the movie, Peter La Fleur is portrayed as a guy who can’t manage even basic aspects of his life. Yet, after being compared with Ben Stiller’s highly exaggerated and unrealistic character, Peter seems quite normal. How are our perceptions of people skewed when we make similar comparisons in reality?
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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.
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