Information for Parents

10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane

Common Sense Media Age 14

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Brings up issues of what it means to help someone (and whether help is actually wanted), as well as issues of trust (when and whether to believe someone).
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Guns and shooting; characters die. Big, loud, scary car crash. Sci-fi violence, explosions. Woman chained to a wall. Character makes a weapon from a crutch and uses it to attack her captor. Bottle smashed against a head; the bleeding cut is stitched by hand. Knife attack. Rotting, dead pigs. Bodies dissolving in acid. Woman with diseased, gory face. Dried blood. High tension, arguing, yelling. Characters tell mildly violent stories of their past.
Sex
Female character shown in underwear.
Language
A use of "f--k"; a use of "s--t." Also "bitch," "turd," and "shut up."
Consumerism
iPhone is seen and used several times. Several board games are mentioned by name or shown (Operation, Trouble, Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly, etc.)
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Characters drink a homemade clear liquor in one scene ("technically it's vodka"); used more for medicinal purposes.
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