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Posted on August 13, 2015 at 3:43 pm
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| Lowest Recommended Age: |
4th - 6th Grades |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG for thematic elements and brief language |
| Profanity: |
Brieg language |
| Nudity/ Sex: |
Mild crude humor |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: |
None |
| Violence/ Scariness: |
Peril, issues of parental death and abandonment, mean adults |
| Diversity Issues: |
None |
| Date Released to Theaters: |
August 14, 2015 |
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The smart alecks behind the Harvard Lampoon magazine parodies of Cosmopolitan and Time created their own magazine, the National Lampoon, in 1970, and it was like taking everything the Baby Boomers loved about the subversive humor of MAD Magazine and making it dirty, nasty, and offensive. Its most notorious cover featured a gun pointing at …
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Oscar nominated screenwriter Billy Ray (“The Hunger Games,” “Shattered Glass”) has a warning for “our next great screenwriters.” Hollywood will not help you. It will work against you. In a speech later adapted for an article on Medium, he explained: When I started writing there were still a few mavericks out there; a few gunslingers …
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