| Overall: | C- |
|---|---|
| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | C- |
| Language: | D+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C |
| Run Time: | 115 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 01 Sep 2009 |
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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.
High Crimes has many elements of on-screen surprise. Movies like this attempt to leave the audience not knowing who to trust, yet if the screenwriter and director use this technique too frequently, what may happen instead?
The character of Ronald Chapman was trained to lie and kill during his military service. Do you think this really happens in the military? If so, are these people safe within society after they are released from active duty? Do you think you could be trained to do such things?

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