Information for Parents

Carriers

Carriers

Common Sense Media Age 15

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Premise evokes an environment in which acts of compassion and mercy usually end in infection and death. Much is made of brotherly loyalty and sibling love (real-life brothers created this movie). But none of it proves strong enough to overcome the selfish, life-or-death choices here forced by a deadly virus.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Fatal and non-fatal shootings draw blood, including the death of a dog. Gruesome corpses, as characters infected with the disease bleed and die, and one is shown after being burned on a pyre.
Sex
Suggestive talk ("eat me") between boyfriend and girlfriend. They start to strip for sex but get interrupted. A band of male survivors threaten to take the leading ladies, for their own unstated (but easy to guess) purposes, make them strip to their underwear for inspection.
Language
Use of the s-word in varied permutations, "ass," "piss," "S.O.B." A written racial slur. One utterance of the F-word.
Consumerism
Car models, Jack Daniels whiskey on display. Mention of SpongeBob Squarepants.
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Mention of "weed" (chiefly its absence). Drinking of beer and liquor until drunkenness sets in.
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