PROJECT HAIL MARY

Name: PROJECT HAIL MARY
Item: PROJECT HAIL MARY
Author: Review

"Faith, Hope and Love"

Family Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

PROJECT HAIL MARY is an excellent science fiction thriller. Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher turned Earth astronaut. Grace wakes up from hibernation only to find his two crewmates dead and no memory of why he’s in a spaceship 12 light years from Earth. As his memory returns, he begins to recall his mission. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing Earth’s sun to die out. However, when he encounters an alien trying to do the same for his own planet’s sun, their unexpected friendship means they don’t have to do it alone.

PROJECT HAIL MARY is a terrific space adventure with lots of humor and heart. It’s a thoroughly uplifting movie with little objectionable content such as two minor references to evolution. Those mentions are counterbalanced by the movie’s Christian title and a lovely reference to God and faith midway in the story, which set the tone for PROJECT HAIL MARY’s exhilarating finish. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children because of intense scenes of peril.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong Christian, morally uplifting worldview, with overt Christian references related to a last-ditch pass to win a football game, called “a Hail Mary,” tells a story where two heroes risk their lives for one another and work together to ensure the survival of their two planets, plus a man asks the female project leader if she believes in God, and she implicitly replies yes, because the alternative is too horrible or terrifying to imagine, so faith, hope and love are the movie’s central themes and they overshadow two minor references to evolution in the story;

Foul Language:

No obscenities, but two light exclamatory profanities such as OMG;

Violence:

Light, exciting adventure violence and peril in outer space such as one hero gets terribly hurt during a dangerous space activity, and the other hero does a dangerous death-defying spacewalk to gather something they need to stop each’s other’s sun from being destroyed while their spacecraft flies in a dangerous low orbit around a planet;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

There’s a bar scene where the people working on a space mission to save Earth’s sun from extinction let off some steam;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

The two heroes do nothing objectionable, but the people running the human hero’s mission make him do something he doesn’t want to do.

More Detail:

PROJECT HAIL MARY is a science fiction thriller about an Earth astronaut who emerges from hibernation only to find his two crewmates dead and no memory of why he’s there, but he soon remembers he’s on a mission to another star to save Earth’s sun from being destroyed, then encounters an alien who’s trying to do the same. PROJECT HAIL MARY is a terrific space adventure with lots of humor and heart, a thoroughly uplifting movie with light objectionable content, such as two minor references to evolution, but which are counterbalanced by the movie’s Christian title and a lovely reference to God and faith.

The movie opens with Earth astronaut Ryland Grace waking up from hibernation to find his two crewmates dead and no memory of why he’s in a spaceship 12 light years from Earth. As his memory returns, however, Grace recalls that the astronauts are being sent to another solar system to find out why that sun is not dying out from the mysterious substance causing Earth’s sun and many other stars to die.

On the way to the other solar system, Grace encounters an alien trying to do the same for his own planet’s sun. Working with the alien astronaut, Grace finds a way to communicate with him. Their unexpected friendship means they don’t have to solve the mystery behind the other sun’s survival alone.

PROJECT HAIL MARY is a terrific space adventure with lots of humor and heart. It’s a thoroughly uplifting movie with no objectionable content except for two minor references to evolution. Those mentions, however, are counterbalanced by the movie’s Christian title and a lovely reference to God and faith midway in the story that sets the tone for PROJECT HAIL MARY’s exhilarating finish.

MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children because of intense scenes of peril. Ultimately, faith, hope and love are the movie’s strongest themes.