The good stuff
*
Messages:
Single parents are shown as loving, concerned, and trustworthy.
What to watch out for
*
Role models:
Wracked by grief after the recent death of a loved one, a leading character abuses alcohol on a nightly basis.
*
Violence:
Harrowing accidents are shown in great detail. A plane crashes into a crowded freeway, with bodies, fires, and injuries everywhere; a train speeds out-of-control through New York's Subway system, inflicting destruction, death, and injury. Children are often in grave danger -- from accidents, scary strangers lurking, fire, abduction, and many major events over which they have no control. One little girl is shown bloodied and on the brink of madness in an early scene. Burning animals flee from a fire (one is shown in a disturbing close up).
*
Sex:
Not an issue.
*
Language:
Cursing includes "d--mit," "h--l," "s--t ," and "oh my God."
*
Consumerism:
A scene set in a convenience store shows Pepsi and other products. One Sabrett's hot dog stand is prominently seen on an NYC sidewalk.
*
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
An otherwise principled character frequently drinks to excess when depressed.