Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
It’s very hard to make a good book into a good movie, even a good book that seems inherently cinematic, as this one does, with all its swirling winds and crashing waves. But in adapting this book, the screenwriter made a number of choices that make the main character’s decision to ride into the storm …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
A+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: | None |
| Nudity/ Sex: | References to kissing |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | None |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some comic pratfalls and a car crash (no one hurt) |
| Diversity Issues: | Diverse characters |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2001 |
This is a great big luscious lollypop of a movie, terrific fun for girls of any age and for their families, too. Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) is a shy 15-year-old who says, “My expectation in life is to be invisible, and I’m good at it.” She dreams of a “foot-popping” kiss from high school hunk …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Some strong and salty language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Suggestive dancing by cheerleaders, sexual references |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | A lot of drinking and smoking |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Football violence, bar fight, punches and shoves |
| Diversity Issues: | Team is multi-racial and includes a deaf player |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2000 |
What is it about football movies? I don’t even like football, but I am a sucker for a good football movie. I’m even a sucker for a pretty good one like this lightweight but likeable story about players called in when the team goes on strike. It’s sort of “Rocky” crossed with “The Longest Yard,” …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Kindergarten - 3rd Grade |
| Profanity: | A couple of mild words |
| Nudity/ Sex: | More suggestive than most animated family features |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Wine |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Some tense moments, main characters in peril, bad guy kills someone |
| Diversity Issues: | Appreciation of diverse cultures, colonization |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2000 |
Dreamworks SKG steps up to the Disney gold standard with this sensationally entertaining animated adventure. Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branaugh provide the voices for Miguel and Tulio, two loveable rogues who go off to the new world in search of excitement and gold. Contrary to the way most animated films are made, the producers put …
Posted on December 13, 2002 at 5:17 am
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Mature High Schooler |
| Profanity: | Some strong language |
| Nudity/ Sex: | Sexual references, including adultery, lesbian relationship, and technical incest (adopted siblings), brief nudity |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Characters drink and smoke |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Graphic attempted suicide, family misery |
| Diversity Issues: | Inter-cultural relationships |
| Date Released to Theaters: | 2001 |
Just about everything is a little off-kilter in this quirky story about a wildly dysfunctional family. A prologue tells us that Royal (Gene Hackman) and Etheline (Anjelica Houston) had three children, all of whom were so prodigiously accomplished while still in grade school that they were the subject of books, including one by their mother. …
