| Overall: | A |
|---|---|
| Violence: | B |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | A |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A- |
| Run Time: | 94 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 07 Apr 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.
Despereaux, Roscuro and Mig are challenged by the limitations of being, respectively, a mouse, a rat and an impoverished child. How does each of them accept or reject these constraints? What positive and negative choices do they make based on these facts? Do we sometimes limit our own opportunities based on real or imagined notions of inadequacy? Have you ever found yourself wondering if you could more easily succeed at your goals if you had been born into a different family, a different ethnic group or if you had a different childhood?
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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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