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Posted on September 17, 2005 at 6:25 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Very mild |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Constant smoking by nearly everyone, drinking, scene in bar |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense scenes, suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Historical portrayal shows prevalence of white males in professional positions |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
I love this movie so much I wanted to go up and hug the screen when it was over. And then I wanted to sit down with everyone I know and watch it over again. It’s a triple threat, and then some. It is the story of vitally engaging characters, of people of courage and …
Continue reading “Good Night, And Good Luck.”
Posted on September 14, 2005 at 8:00 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Brief crude language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief non-sexual bare tush (comic), implied nudity, sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, scenes in bar, characters drink to numb pain |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Punch, non-graphic car crash, tense scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Many romantic comedies have a Sleeping Beauty theme, but few as literally as this by-the-book but enjoyable trifle. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon) is a dedicated doctor who has no life outside the hospital. One night her car is hit by a truck. The next thing she knows, some man is in her apartment. She does not …
Continue reading “Just Like Heaven”
Posted on September 14, 2005 at 1:33 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Non-explicit sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, characters drink too much |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Tense emotional scenes |
| Diversity Issues: |
Treatment of women in scholarly mathematics an issue |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
People often speak of “opening up” a play when it is made into a movie. In one sense the Tony- and Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway production of “Proof” has been opened up. Instead of entirely taking place at one house near the University of Chicago, this story about a young woman who doubts her own sanity …
Continue reading “Proof”
Posted on September 13, 2005 at 1:05 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Frank sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking and smoking, scenes in bars, characters get tipsy, some crude references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some fighting, including a hit in the crotch, sad scenes of illness and death |
| Diversity Issues: |
Reference to anti-Semitism |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
You never know.” What does that mean? Of course you never know, but why would someone adopt that as an all-purpose rejoinder? Writer/producer/actor Paul Reiser has a good feel for the way families talk to each other, especially the talk that goes around the subject the long way rather than addressing it directly. The subjects …
Continue reading “The Thing About My Folks”
Posted on September 6, 2005 at 7:53 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief bare tush |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril, guns, no one hurt |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
There are so many reasons to love writer-director Nick Park’s dim, gentle, cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his patient, practical, and loyal dog, Gromit. First, they are brilliant at every kind of funny, from sophisticated wit to sly parody to outrageous puns, to this-is-what-pause-buttons-on-DVD-players-are-made for detail and fall-down, lose-the-toupee farce. Second, their adventures are hilarious and …
Continue reading “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”
