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.
In this melodrama, Richard Gere plays an older man who
falls in love with a younger woman who's dying (Winona Ryder). Also with Vera Farmiga,
Jamie Harrold, Anthony LaPaglia and Sherry Stringfield. [1:45]
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Some sexual innuendo and some kissing (a few times it's
passionate). A couple lies in bed together and kisses passionately, then they have
intercourse (we only see what appears to be body movement through a steamy window and some
close-ups of her pleasured facial expressions). We see an obviously nude but mostly
sheet-covered woman in bed; it's implied she spent the night with a man. A clothed couple
lie in bed together. A woman wears a slightly cleavage-revealing nightgown.
VIOLENCE/GORE 1 - A woman slaps a man on the arm and pushes him away. A
person falls down a couple times from a heart condition. A person in a hospital bed has
tubes in both nostrils; eventually this person dies (we don't see it happen, though).
the review continues below...
PROFANITY 5 - 2 F-words, a few anatomical and scatological references,
several mild obscenities, a few religious obscenities and some insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Terminal disease, falling in love, commitment,
infidelity, womanizing, loss of a parent, loss of a lover, death, casual sex, deadbeat
dads, lying, older men/younger women relationships.
MESSAGE - Go for the one you love even if you know you'll soon lose that
person.
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