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Posted on March 29, 2004 at 6:22 pm
C
| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Strippers (in underwear), sexual situation |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Characters are drug dealers, child takes drugs, drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Intense violence for a PG-13 |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Apparently, the people who stage professional wrestling matches looked for the story that was most like a wrestling match and picked the story of Buford Pusser, the sheriff who cleaned up a small Southern town. That is, if your definition of cleaning up includes smacking the bad guys with a 2×4. This might work as …
Continue reading “Walking Tall”
Posted on March 28, 2004 at 12:57 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
None |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
None |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Deeds gets drunk |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
A few punches |
| Diversity Issues: |
Tolerence of individual and class differences |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
1936 |
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), of Mandrake Falls, Vermont, is a quiet bachelor who writes rhymes for birthday cards and plays the tuba for concentration. Informed that he has inherited twenty million dollars, he goes to New York City to collect it. Swarms of people come after him to try to get some of the money, …
Continue reading “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town”
Posted on March 27, 2004 at 8:17 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: |
Very mild language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Brief crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Characters in some peril |
| Diversity Issues: |
Strong female characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
I love it when Disney doesn’t take itself too seriously. No one tried to reach for the stars or make this into a classic. It’s just a cute little story about some not-so-contented cows who save the day. It modestly aspires to be nothing more than a lot of fun, and it does that job …
Continue reading “Home on the Range”
Posted on March 25, 2004 at 5:15 am
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Some very strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Some nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Character abuses alcohol, reference to alcoholism, smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Extreme violence with graphic injuries, many characters killed, including a child, attempted suicide |
| Diversity Issues: |
Gay character is blackmailed |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
It’s not as easy to turn a comic book into a movie as you might think, even though comics and illustrated novels are closer to cinema in conception than any other art form. But as this second attempt to turn the story of comic hero The Punisher into a movie shows, translating tone and pacing …
Continue reading “The Punisher”
Posted on March 23, 2004 at 5:20 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: |
Extremely strong language including n-word |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
Drinking, smoking, drug references |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Comic violence, many characters hurt and killed |
| Diversity Issues: |
Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
2004 |
Tom Hanks and the Coen brothers take the title, the concept (sweet little old lady outwits criminals), the teeth, and the slightly sepulchral laugh from the 1955 English black comedy classic. They may miss the primary point (and joke) of the original, and they tone down their usual corkscrew dialogue and mordant humor, but they …
Continue reading “The Ladykillers”
