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Posted on October 5, 2005 at 8:19 pm
B+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language, including the f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character drinks too much and becomes abusive |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Accidents with graphic injuries, brief domestic abuse |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Julianne Moore’s radiant performance as Evelyn Ryan does for this movie what the real-life Ryan’s “contest-ing” did for her family in the 1950’s — it holds it together with such mesmerizing grace that it makes the rough patches seem endearing. The book that inspired this movie is the memoir by one of Ryan’s 10 children …
Continue reading “Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”
Posted on October 4, 2005 at 8:03 pm
B
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong language, constant use of the f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief nudity, sexual references and an explicit sexual situation, prostitutes, references to sexual abuse |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Character strong-armed, threatened with a gun |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
There’s only one possible reason that Brandon Lang (Matthew McConaughey), a one-time quarterback with a busted knee turned 900-number sportsline win-predictor sticks around after he finds out what is really going on in the big-money sports betting advice, and it’s the same reason we stick around, too. We can’t take our eyes off of Al …
Continue reading “Two for the Money”
Posted on October 3, 2005 at 10:30 am
A-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, character is promiscuous |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, character drinks too much |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense confrontations, reference to suicide, some spills, sad death |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Siblings divide up the world to prove who they are, and the closer they are to each other, the more they depend on each other, the harder they would to stake their claim to being different from each other. In this formulaic but affecting movie, two sisters are connected by — and torn apart by …
Continue reading “In Her Shoes”
Posted on September 29, 2005 at 7:38 pm
C+
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Very strong and crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Nudity, strippers, porn, lap dance, sexual references and explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, marijuana, mescaline |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and extreme graphic violence and peril, characters injured and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters, strong woman |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“Based on a true story.” “Sort of.” Domino Harvey was the daughter of British movie star Laurence Harvey (The Manchurian Candidate<img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nellminowthemovi&l=ur2&o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"). She grew up in luxurious surroundings, worked as a model, and then became a bounty hunter. She died of a drug overdose a few months …
Continue reading “Domino”
Posted on September 28, 2005 at 6:19 pm
A-
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and smoking (including underage) |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Violence and peril, child beaten, (offscreen) murder, blood, gunshots |
| Diversity Issues: |
Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
