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CAST AS ROLE MODELS:

HALLE BERRY plays a high school teacher who encourages her students to pursue their dreams and she participates by helping them do just that.

JAMES BELUSHI plays a shop teacher who at first is reluctant to help but later becomes the students' biggest supporter.

THE STUDENTS are a rag tag group who, as individuals, overcome their self doubts and prove to others that they are winners.

HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE

ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE

One of the students drinks from a flask. The next day her driving performance is impaired, an effect from the drinking the night before. The group later confronts her with her drinking problem, telling her she can't drive anymore.

BLOOD/GORE

None.

DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE

Several times an overweight student is referred to as "fat," "fat boy," or "fat ass"

Initially the students are not respectful of their teacher.

Some prep school students look down on and insult the local students.

One of the female students gives "the finger" to a competitor.

FRIGHTENING SCENES

A sudden and violent dust storm engulfs the team, blinding, choking and scaring them.

A pair of tractor trailer trucks, running side by side, almost run over three solar cars.

A girl is asleep in a bus when she's awakened by weird sounds outside. She's scared, but it only lasts a few seconds.

Smoke begins to fill the car while a girl drives. It then catches on fire, and she crashes and is trapped inside as the flames grow. She's very scared, but is finally rescued.

GUNS/WEAPONS

None.

IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR

Phrases: "Shut up," "You can be so stupid," "Eat me," "Kick butt," "This family sucks," and "They screwed us."

A student playfully punches another student in the shoulder.

One of the female students gives "the finger" to a competitor.

A student driver holds onto a battery terminal which gives him a shock but no lasting effects.

One student jokingly tells another, "I'm going to murder you."

JUMP SCENES

None.

MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE)

Some Australian native woodwind music accompanies a tense scene.

There is some suspenseful music when some tractor trailers almost run over several solar cars.

There is some suspenseful when a girl is trapped inside a burning car.

MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE)

None.

PROFANITY

7 "s" words, 7 ass words, 4 hell's, and 1 crap used as exclamations.

SEX/NUDITY

None.

SMOKING

Machi smokes a cigarette.

One of the students is briefly seen smoking.

Another student has an unlit cigarette in her mouth, but doesn't light it.

TENSE FAMILY SCENES

A father is not happy that his son has quit his job to be on the solar team.

Machi is divorced, and Beecher is working on a divorce, but no kids are involved.

A student and his half sister talk about their family life and she's upset her parents got divorced.

TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT

There's the implication of racial prejudice against local Hawaiian students.

There's some minor talk about divorce between the two teachers.

VIOLENCE

A student playfully punches another student in the shoulder.

One student hits another in the face with his fist.

A driver holds onto a battery terminal which gives him a shock.

Machi threatens to "personally revoke your legs" (said to a slime-ball corporate sponsor after he accosts the students).

Two students get into a shoving match on the bus, but are separated.

A competing driver shoves one of the students and spits in his face.