REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES
Unlikely Friends Learn Value Of Connection
What You Need To Know
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, a drama streaming on Netflix, tells the story of an unlikely pair — Tova, an older woman who cleans an aquarium at night, and Cameron, her new co-worker who searches for his birth father. A mischievous octopus brings them together as they forge a strong bond and teach each other the importance of connection.
Tova enjoys her job as an aquarium cleaner and spends her nights talking to Marcellus, an octopus who escapes his tank regularly. When she sprains her ankle, Cameron, a newcomer to town, takes over her duties. Tova and Cameron clash initially but soon becomes friends, with Tova helping Cameron search for his birth father. Tova lost her son 30 years ago to a boating accident, so they establish a mother-son relationship.
Meanwhile, Tova struggles to decide whether to leave her town and move to an assisted living community. As she and Cameron grow closer, they teach each other important lessons about friendship, community and opening up to all of life’s gifts.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES presents a wonderful, heartfelt movie that shares a beautiful message about connection. Leads Sally Field and Lewis Pullman deliver moving performances, balancing heart with humor, and the movie features beautiful shots of ocean life.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES has a strong, heartwarming moral worldview stressing friendship, family, community, and connection, as well as an appreciation for nature. However, it’s marred by about 45 obscenities and profanities, references to two unwed teenage pregnancies, and a side character who says he’s homosexual. This makes REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES too excessive and unacceptable.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
<span style="font-weight: 400;">(BB, E, Ho, LLL, V, S, A, DD, M): </span><b>
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Strong moral worldview stresses friendship, family, community, helping and caring for other people, and striving to be a better person, with a promotion of appreciating nature, plus a side character says he’s homosexual; </span><b>
Foul Language
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 22 obscenities (including one “f” word and nine “s” words), two GD profanities, and 21 light profanities; </span><b>
Violence
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Older woman pictures how her son drowned during a boating accident years ago, octopus escapes his tank and nearly drowns two times; </span><b>
Sex
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> References to two unwed teenage pregnancies, and a side character says he’s homosexual; </span><b>
Nudity
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> No nudity; </span><b>
Alcohol Use
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Characters drink beer and wine throughout, but never to excess; </span><b>
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> No tobacco smoking, but one scene includes a mention of someone smoking marijuana; and the mother of the leading male character died of a drug overdose; and, </span><b>
Miscellaneous Immorality
</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Some lying and several scenes feature people gossiping.</span> <br style="font-weight: 400;" /><br style="font-weight: 400;" />
