| Overall: | B |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B |
| Sexual Content: | C |
| Language: | C- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A- |
| Run Time: | 101 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 08 Feb 2011 |
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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.
We highly recommend this film be viewed with or previewed by an adult caregiver prior to teens seeing it, especially if they are prone to depression. Parents and caregivers should be willing and able to discuss the themes of suicide and depression in this film.
A doctor recommends that Craig consider the things he is able to change versus those he is not. How easy is it to identify which of these two categories our problems may fall into?
Temporary depression is a normal human emotion. However if you are consistently or continuously feeling depressed, you should seek advice and perhaps active treatment. This is one site of many that offers some basic tips for combating depression: http://www.psychologyinfo.com/depression/help.html
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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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