Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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 one scene, Mrs. Smith throws many knives, with deadly accuracy, at various nameless attackers. Humorously, when one accidentally stabs her husband in the leg, he pulls it out and isn’t affected by the wound. Why are audiences so willing to suspend belief when presented with situations like these in movies?

After discovering they have lied to each other about virtually every aspect of their personalities, this couple is still determined to stay married. In reality, do you think a marriage could survive this enormous breach of trust?