8.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama • 2025 • 102 min
Chaperone (2025)
Chaperone (2025)
Overview
Drama directed by Zoe Eisenberg, starring Mitzi Akaha as unambitious 29-year-old Misha, who forms a risky bond with 18-year-old athlete Jake after he mistakes her for a chaperone at a track meet. Set in Hilo, Hawaii, with supporting roles by Kanoa Goo as her brother Vik and Jessica Jade Andres as her friend Kenzie.
Starring Cast
Kanoa Goo • Jessica Jade Andres • Mitzi Akaha
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
8.2
Overview
Drama directed by Zoe Eisenberg, starring Mitzi Akaha as unambitious 29-year-old Misha, who forms a risky bond with 18-year-old athlete Jake after he mistakes her for a chaperone at a track meet. Set in Hilo, Hawaii, with supporting roles by Kanoa Goo as her brother Vik and Jessica Jade Andres as her friend Kenzie.
Starring Cast
Kanoa Goo • Jessica Jade Andres • Mitzi Akaha
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film's focus on individual moral dilemmas and personal consequences maintains a neutral stance, avoiding alignment with progressive or conservative ideologies. Its exploration of flawed decisions through empathy and reflection underscores balanced human complexity without political advocacy.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
Chaperone employs an all-AANHPI cast to authentically represent its rural Hawaiian setting, ensuring visible ethnic diversity. The narrative subtly addresses gender double standards through a female protagonist's predatory deception of a younger male, offering an indirect examination of societal expectations without centering explicit DEI critiques.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
Chaperone depicts family peripherally as a source of alienation for the protagonist's lack of ambition, with a sibling bond shown positively but without exploring traditional structures or roles in depth. The neutral portrayal stems from family content's marginal role amid themes of personal inertia and unconventional romance.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The film contains no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on a straight age-disparate relationship marked by deception and societal pressures.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film features no transgender characters or themes, focusing instead on an age-gap relationship in a small Hawaiian town.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
Chaperone presents original characters in an independent narrative inspired by the director's personal experience, with no adaptation from source material featuring canonical genders, yielding no instances of gender swaps.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Chaperone presents original fictional characters in a contemporary Hawaii setting, without drawing from source material, prior adaptations, or historical figures that establish canonical races, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.6
6.0
Critic Ratings
10.0
N/A
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