| Overall: | A- |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | A- |
| Language: | B+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 13 Mar 2006 |
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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.
What did playing the game of football do to help the students overcome their prejudices toward each other? Can you think of other activities that may help people overcome their differences and begin working together?
Once the students on the football team understood the importance of respecting each other regardless of race or color, they had a difficult time accepting the intolerance of the other students and their parents. How did they begin to change the attitudes held by the community of Alexandria? Were their tactics ever violent?
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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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