Dante's Peak
Focus

  
By Toby Klein Greenwald
Director, WholeFamily Room

Print and discuss after the film, around the family dinner table or while you're out for a ride. Reading them before the film will help focus your viewing.
 
  1. What is the dilemma of the town council?

  2. How would you describe the relationship of Rachel with her children? With her mother-in-law? Of the children with their grandmother?

  3. Who else in the film had dilemmas to face? What were they and how did the protagonists resolve them?

  4. Were there heroes in this film? If so, who were they and what made them heroes?

  5. What were your favorite special effects?

  6. Describe the relationships within the work crew. What helped them do their job well?

  7. What did you learn from this film about how to improve relationships with people in your family, your school or your workplace that you can use in your own life?

Please share your thoughts with us that were triggered by these questions at our
Film Board.

 

Ms. Toby Klein Greenwald is Co-President and Director of Creative Development of WholeFamily.com. In her former life she taught film analysis and wrote scripts.
 
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