Homestead | 2024 | PG-13 | – 1.5.4

Why is “Homestead” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some violence and thematic elements.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes some teen flirting, a nuclear explosion with discussions and reports of the aftermath, a man being shot by a teen boy, a man being shot by a county official, people being threatened by a SWAT team, people clambering at a gate asking for help from people in a compound, people gathering at a survivalist compound with its own armed security detail, several arguments and some moderate language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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After a nuclear explosion in Los Angeles wreaks havoc on the power grid, people seek shelter in a fully stocked and prepared compound with its own security forces but they then need to choose between defending the compound or helping those in need. With Dawn Olivieri, Neal McDonough, Susan Misner, Jesse Hutch, Bailey Chase, Kevin Lawson, Currie Graham, Olivia Sanabia, Kearran Giovanni and Grace Powell. Directed by Ben Smallbone. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in an unidentified language with English subtitles. [Running Time: 1:50]

Homestead SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A teen boy and a teen girl talk and flirt and the teen boy kisses the teen girl on the cheek before he leaves. A teen boy tries to flirt with a teen girl and is called away. A teen girl bemoans being a homeschool kid and that no one will ever ask her to go to prom.
► A teen girl wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage and partial bare shoulders. A woman wears a low-cut shirt that reveals cleavage.

Homestead VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – An explosion shakes buildings and houses and we see a shock wave moving through a city; the sky becomes orange and we see large plumes of smoke in the distance as people become alarmed when their TVs and cellphones stop working.
► Two hunters with rifles walk through private property and are told to leave; they do not hear the announcement and one hunter looks through his rifle’s scope to see who is talking to them, one person (a teen boy) aims his rifle at the hunter and fires a warning shot that does not seem to deter him and the teen shoots again hitting the hunter in the chest (he falls to the ground wheezing and we see blood on his chest; he dies later in a medical unit). A SWAT vehicle arrives at a compound and many armed officers prepare to fire as their commander and an official speak to the property owner; the official holds a gun on the property owner, they argue and he shoots him in the chest (he falls to the ground and we see blood), other armed men in the area open fire and a few people seem to have been shot without visible injuries.
► A woman driving an electric car with a dying battery steals another car and drives away as the owner of the car holds onto the door and is dragged on the ground before falling off. People fight over supplies at a grocery store; a man tries to grab toilet paper from a woman, they struggle and he punches her in the face; another man with a gun hits the attacker in the face with the gun and threatens to shoot him. People fight at gas pumps over dwindling supplies of fuel. People pass out food to other people outside a gate and the people outside crowd around them and armed security people pull them back behind a gate.
► A man takes his daughter outside to go to the bathroom and he hears arguing and a gunshot in a house next door; dogs bark and the man runs back to his house telling his family to get their go-bag and get to his truck; the man speeds away as people with flashlights move toward them and he nearly hits a man and a woman walking in a street. A young man readies a detonation device and we see barrels with a symbol indicating that they contain nuclear material. A man loads many weapons and speeds away from his house, cuts off another car driven by his wife and tells her to get back home and prepare to go to a compound for safety. People are shown in tents and in makeshift encampments in a few scenes and some are shown armed. A man secures a heavy chain to a gate where many people gather outside and plead for food and shelter. Giant lines of traffic are seen exiting a large city.
► Several vehicles with armed men inside drive to a gated compound. A woman ushers her children to a car and tells them not to breathe the air after an explosion; they cover themselves with blankets, and the woman gets back out of the car to retrieve the family dog before speeding away. A woman presses a button in her car that indicates a “bioweapon defense mode” has been initiated. People set up a perimeter with razor wire and sandbags. People do a training exercise and we see them with guns (but not with live ammunition) and they shoot at each other; when someone is struck lights flash on their helmets.
► A husband and his wife argue about the man deciding to send their teen son out for guard duty. A husband and his wife argue about trying to grow vegetables in the winter to sustain the people in their compound. A man yells at his teenage daughter telling her that she cannot be seeing a teen boy. A husband and his wife argue when he tells her that he stopped in Vegas on his way to meet her in a compound. A young boy carries a puppy and asks his parents if they can keep it; the father says “No,” but we later see him holding the puppy on his lap. A man tells another man, “People are going to die at this gate.” We hear reports of a nuclear explosion. People discuss whether World War 3 is happening. A woman sees an emergency notification that reads, “Seek immediate shelter.” The word, “hoarders” is painted on the side of a barn engulfed in flames. People talk about a nuclear attack being undertaken by Russia and that it took out the power grid. A man talks about “things they did to her before we took her in,” about a teen girl that they took into their home (there is no further mention of what happened and where she had been before). A voiceover talks about “how the world broke.” A voiceover says, “Technology had become our god.” A man asks another man, “What’s your scam,” when he tries to order the man to turn over his supplies and a list of his weapons and the people on his property. A young man seems to be questioning something he is about to do and a man tells him, “We made an oath.” After a woman’s electric car battery dies, she complains to her husband, “Why did we buy a Tesla?” A young girl draws a picture of a large mushroom cloud and explosion and later says, “I saw this.” A teen girl talks about ways to heal the planet. A man talks about feeding the homeless with another man. A woman asks, “Is this an ark or a fortress?” A teen boy is very troubled by a man dying after he shot him and a teen girl asks if she can pray for the boy. A teen girl says that she had a heart transplant.
► A man discovers doors in a storage shed open and finds that wheat stores have been breached; he later says that “wood rats” got into the wheat contaminating it. Two children hold sticks and play with them like guns, pretending to shoot at each other. A young man baits fishing hooks with small fish. A dog eats a piece of toast from a plate on a counter.

Homestead LANGUAGE 4

 – 1 scatological term, name-calling (gross, idiot, apocalypse, hoarders, silly, whining, strange, dude, lone wolf), exclamations (oo-rah, shut-up), 13 religious exclamations (e.g. my God, oh my God, thank God, my God is bigger than the math, Lord, Amen, I hope to God, praying to God, God came through, only God really knows). | profanity glossary |

Homestead SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man takes an unidentified prescription pill. Two teens make “peach wine” (we do not see them drink any).

Homestead DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Nuclear warfare, terrorism, civil disobedience, monetary systems, inflation, trust, hope, the National Guard, militias, murder, rules of engagement, trespassing, survivalist camps, taxes, miracles, crypto, FEMA.

Homestead MESSAGE

 – It’s up to each of us to determine what a life worth living looks like.

Editor’s Note: A marketing plea is presented at the end of the film, with an actor asking the audience members to scan a QR code and “Pay it forward” by buying someone else a ticket to see the movie, promising that anyone who does so, will get access to a “second episode.”