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Comedy, Crime, TV Movie • 2014 • 92 min • All Ages

Swindle is a 2014 Nickelodeon TV movie about a group of kids who pull off a heist to recover a valuable baseball card after a shady dealer swindles one of them out of a fortune. Based on Gordon Korman's novel, it lands a Neutral label because its signals largely cancel out or stay quiet. The film carries a diverse cast and swaps one character's gender from the source novel, both mild progressive markers. Against that, the story leans on friendship and fair play without any political or ideological framing. Religion, LGBTQ themes, and family structure commentary are all absent. The result is a breezy, G-rated kids' caper with nothing particularly charged to weigh.
Jennette McCurdy • Noah Crawford • Chris O'Neal
Swindle is a 2014 Nickelodeon TV movie about a group of kids who pull off a heist to recover a valuable baseball card after a shady dealer swindles one of them out of a fortune. Based on Gordon Korman's novel, it lands a Neutral label because its signals largely cancel out or stay quiet. The film carries a diverse cast and swaps one character's gender from the source novel, both mild progressive markers. Against that, the story leans on friendship and fair play without any political or ideological framing. Religion, LGBTQ themes, and family structure commentary are all absent. The result is a breezy, G-rated kids' caper with nothing particularly charged to weigh.
Jennette McCurdy • Noah Crawford • Chris O'Neal
The film focuses on universal themes of friendship, justice, and clever problem-solving to rectify an individual wrong, rather than promoting a specific political ideology or engaging with broader societal critiques.
The movie features visible diversity within its main cast, including prominent minority actors, but does not appear to involve explicit racial or gender recasting of traditionally white roles. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, consistent with its family-friendly adventure genre, and does not present explicit critiques of these identities.
The film is an adaptation of a novel where the character Logan Applebaum was canonically male. In the screen adaptation, this character is portrayed as female.
The movie features families as background elements for its child protagonists, but it does not deeply explore or endorse specific family structures, roles, or values. Parental authority is present but often circumvented by the children for the plot's progression, without explicit critique or celebration of either traditional or progressive norms.
The film "Swindle, 2014" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The plot focuses on a group of teenagers executing a heist, and no elements related to queer identity are present or explored.
The film 'Swindle, 2014' does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a group of teenagers executing a heist to recover a stolen baseball card, with no elements pertaining to gender identity or transsexual experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film is an adaptation of a novel where the race of its characters, including Darren Vader, was not explicitly specified or visually established in the source material. Therefore, the casting of actors of different races for these roles does not constitute a race swap under the given definition.
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