Deterrence

DETERRENCE

RATING: R

STARRING: Kevin Pollak, Timothy Hutton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Sean Astin

DIRECTOR: Rad Lurie

DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Classics

GENRE: Political Thriller

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

SUMMARY: In the low-budget political thriller Deterrence, America's first Jewish President gets involved in a nuclear crisis with Iraq. Kevin Pollak stars as President Walter Emerson, with Timothy Hutton serving as his top political advisor and Gayle Redford starring as his National Security Adviser. The President resolves the crisis in a unique, surprising and relatively moral, conservative, proAmerican way, despite a nuclear bomb exploding.

Although the film handles the basic drama of this international crisis well, parts of the story are confusing or not explained clearly. Also, some of the other situations and characters are corny and pretentious. Furthermore, although the movie ultimately seems to side with the President's relatively moral resolution of the crisis, it reveals, in a somewhat gratuitous moment, that the President actually considers himself to be an atheist. This fact doesn't seem to make much difference in the Presidents decisions. Or, does it? Deterrence deserves a strong caution, however, mostly for its use of strong foul language, a couple of politically correct moments and some pro-globalist elements.

CONTENT: Mild moral worldview including some pro-American moments but also including a main character claiming to be an atheist who also supports a partly globalist agenda and a politically correct element about the racism of another character; 52 mostly strong obscenities,10 mostly strong profanities and a few racial epithets; shootout in diner, with some bloody after-effects shown; no sex; no nudity; casual beer and wine drinking, especially by one beer-drinker who gets a bit inebriated; smoking and racism.

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