Tron Review

Messages: While the good guys stage an illegal break-in at their place of business, they are otherwise supposedly on the side of morality in trying to take down criminal software tycoon Dillinger. There is a qualifier that both Flynn and his cohort have slept with the same girl (no hard feelings, evidently). In the "virtual" computer world, lines between good and evil are simply drawn, literally, with a religious angle: the software beings who believe in their "users" (that is, their creators) are subject to persecution/torture/execution by the nonbelief-preaching cyber-villains.

Role models: Dillinger embodies a longstanding Hollywood stereotype of businessmen as corrupt and dangerous. Few female characters or ethnic diversity in computer-world; it's implicit that program-based beings take on the appearance of their real-world creators -- overwhelmingly white, male software engineers. The human heroine is a brainy scientist, however.

Violence: Violence is mainly of the stylized, low-resolution video game style, literally. When fatalities happen, characters dematerialize (though there is also an energy-draining torture sequences when skeletons become visible). Bloodless collisions of spaceship-thingies, motorcycle-thingies.

Sex: Brief dialogue indicates both leading male characters had previous premarital bedroom romps with the heroine.

Language: A few "damns."

Consumerism: Dated plugs for arcade video games -- no names of real ones mentioned, but classic gamers will recognize Pac-Man noises in the background. Tron tie-in games were peddled (and later successors came out, especially in anticipation of a Tron sequel).

Drinking, drugs and smoking: Nothing to speak of, but main character Flynn runs what looks like a saloon-video arcade as a side business.