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Posted on February 24, 2005 at 4:46 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Middle School |
| Profanity: |
Mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Smoking, social drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic book-style peril and action violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
Dated portrayals of women and minorities |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“Sahara,” based on one of Clive Cussler’s series of novels about dashing adventurer Dirk Pitt feels more like a 1940’s serial than a book written in 1991 or a movie made in 2005. The characters are too thin, the violence too careless, the suspension of disbelief required too strenuous, the treatment of non-whites too stereotyped. …
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Posted on February 16, 2005 at 12:52 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character has lung cancer from constant smoking, drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense and graphic violence and disturbing images, suicides |
| Diversity Issues: |
Some racial issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Take a 1930’s movie detective, a guy who shoots straight and talks tough. You know, the kind of guy who may have a soft spot for a dame in a jam but that doesn’t necessarily mean he believes what she tells him. The kind of who always seems to be walking down a rain-soaked street …
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Posted on February 12, 2005 at 7:21 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
Mild swearing, rude schoolyard insults |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
References to alcoholism and drinking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Mild peril, no one hurt, references to absent mother and death of sibling |
| Diversity Issues: |
A strength of the movie is the friendships between people of different ages and races |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
This story of a girl, a dog, and the lessons they teach a small southern town is appealing but a bit heavy-handed, starting right at the beginning. It leads off with the sugary cliche trifecta: voice-over narration telling us how much has changed since the days we are about to hear the story of, a …
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Posted on February 9, 2005 at 9:33 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some tough and mean language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations, adultery, out of wedlock children |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters include drug addict, drug dealer |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Some violence, including a shooting, domestic violence |
| Diversity Issues: |
A theme of the movie |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
Three separate movies collide in this uneven but heartfelt drama of a woman done wrong who has to learn to rely on herself for the first time. The first movie is a soapy, syrupy, over-the-top “women suffering in fabulous clothes” drama, filled with welling eyes and swelling music, somewhere on the scale between Douglas Sirk …
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Posted on February 9, 2005 at 1:45 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some strong language, one f-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references and situations |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Social drinking, drinking as a response to stress |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
A strength of the movie is colorblind romantic relationships and friendships |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2005 |
“Is Hitch a noun or a verb?” Sarah (Eva Mendes) asks Alex “Hitch” Hitchens (Will Smith). “It depends,” he answers. It’s actually a little of both. Hitch is a “date doctor,” a sort of Straight Eye for the Straight Guy who advises men on how to appeal to the women of their dreams. Hitch as …
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