| Overall: | B- |
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| Violence: | C+ |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | B- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C |
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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.
How do science fiction movies shape our attitudes about the future and space travel? In 1966, 2001: A Space Odyssey suggested we would be orbiting Jupiter by next year. Why have our expectations of space travel diminished over the last 34 years?
For current information on the latest happenings in space exploration, check MSNBC’s Space News at www.msnbc.com/news/spacenews_front.asp or NASA’s site at www.nasa.org
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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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