Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
An aspiring songwriter from New Jersey (Piper Perabo) moves
to New York City to start her career but ends up working in a wild bar instead. Also with
Maria Bello, Tyra Banks, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan, Adam Garcia and John Goodman. [1:50]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Some sexual innuendo and several kisses. A woman takes off
her shirt and skirt in front of a man (we see part of her panties and most of her bra
through a transparent tank top), then she kisses him and takes off his shirt; in a
post-coitus scene, the camera pans up his sheet-covered legs and bare chest as he lies in
bed, and we also see her with a sheet wrapped around her body. Several scenes of women in
midriff- and cleavage-revealing tops dancing suggestively on a bar counter, sometimes with
each other; in one scene the women repeatedly pour water all over each other (we see a few
close-ups of their chests), in another scene two women pull up a man's shirt and pour
alcohol on his chest and in his mouth, in another scene a few women remove their bras and
a few women are seen wearing bras, and in another scene a man puts his hands on a woman's
hips while trying to dance with her (she pushes him away). Twice, a man is auctioned off
to the highest female bidder: in one scene a man comically dances on a bar counter and
shows the top of his underwear, and in the other scene a man removes his shirt and reveals
a bit of his underwear while dancing suggestively on a bar counter (the highest bidder
kisses his bare chest comically). At a baseball game a woman takes off her jersey (her bra
is visible) and briefly strokes a bat (we see a man's surprised reaction to this). Part of
a woman's panties and bra are visible when she's changing clothes; also, we see the
silhouette of a woman's torso from the side as she's putting on a shirt. We see many women
in cleavage-revealing tops, a man wearing boxers and an open shirt, and a woman's bare
legs and the very bottom of her buttocks while she's dancing on a bar counter.
VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - A couple of scuffles and punches in a bar; in one scene,
many people are involved. A man pulls another off a bar, punches him repeatedly, then
throws him through the front of a jukebox (one of the men is seen with a slightly bloody
lip afterwards). A woman is pulled off a bar counter and into a crowd and appears to be
fighting off a group of men. A man is pushed out of a bar. In a scene played for laughs, a
woman backhands a man and knocks him off his chair. We see a person with a broken leg
recovering in a hospital bed (we learn the person was hit by a car), and in a later scene
the person uses crutches (the person hits the cast against a table and yells loudly, in a
scene played for laughs). A woman spits alcohol on a flame, making a large fireball.
the review continues below...
PROFANITY 4 - Several anatomical references, a few scatological references,
several mild obscenities, a couple of religious profanities, and a few insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Children "leaving" their parents,
independence, bartending, using one's body to sell something, drunkenness, jealousy, loss
of a loved one.
MESSAGE - Don't let fear keep you from achieving your dreams. You shouldn't
be ashamed or embarrassed about showing off your body.
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