High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
Tell Your Children has generally received negative reviews.
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By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 28 Jul 2002
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Tell Your Children was released in 1938 and has generally received negative reviews.
Online reviewers have written 315 reviews, giving Tell Your Children (1938) an average rating of 39%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 61%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 57%.
With a score of 39%, Tell Your Children is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1938, which stands at 61%.
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