| − | |Four friends go on an adventure to find the dead body of a missing teen. Despite the swearing and underage smoking the movie displays very good Conservative values of friendship, loyalty, the importance of family (the 4 main boys come from broken homes even though one of the boy's fathers fought in World War II in Normandy). The lead boy stands up to his bully using a gun and an off screen character is a Catholic who is practicing abstinence much to the dismay of her criminal boyfriend. | + | |Four friends go on an adventure to find the dead body of a missing teen. Despite featuring swearing and underage smoking in some scenes, the movie displays very good Conservative values of friendship, loyalty, the importance of family (the four main boys, played by Wil Wheaton, Jerry O'Connell, River Phoenix and Corey Feldman, come from broken homes even though one of the boy's fathers fought in World War II in Normandy). The lead boy stands up to the movie's main antagonist, local hoodlum and gang leader Ace Merrill (played by Kiefer Sutherland) by using a gun to keep him at bay when Ace threatens him with a switchblade, and an off-screen character is a Catholic who is practicing abstinence, much to the dismay of her boyfriend Ace. |