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This comedy/drama explores the fascination white
upper-class teens have with the urban hip-hop lifestyle. With Scott Caan, Robert Downey
Jr., Stacy Edwards, Allan Houston, Gaby Hoffmann, Kidada Jones, Jared Leto, Marla Maples,
Kim Matulova, Joe Pantoliano, Bijou Phillips, Power, Raekwon, Claudia Schiffer, William
Lee Scott, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Mike Tyson, Elijah Wood, Sticky
Fingaz and Method Man. [1:38]
SEX/NUDITY 8 - Lots of sexual innuendo (sometimes explicit and including
some references to fellatio, cunnilingus and homosexuality) and a couple of passionate
kisses. We see several shots of a ménage à trois taking place in a park (one man watches
and a few young kids stumble onto the scene): we see two girls kissing, a girl touching
another's bare breast in close-up and a man fondling a girl's thong-clad buttocks with his
other hand underneath the other girl's skirt. We see the side of a girl's bare breast and
some of her panties as she undresses and kisses a man; in a later scene a woman walks in
on them while they're presumably having intercourse (we only see his bare torso and her
legs). We see the side of a nude man (no explicit nudity is seen) lying in bed between to
nude women (their backsides are visible). We see a few women in cleavage- and
midriff-revealing shirts.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A person is shot (we don't see the impact but see blood on
the back of the victim's shirt). A man slaps and chokes another man (he was trying to
"pick up" the other); also, another slap and a shove. A man pounds a table, a
woman throws her bag at a car and a man falls during a basketball game and limps off the
court. A little threatening with guns. We hear a man urinate and see him standing in front
of a toilet.
PROFANITY 10 - Some of the profanity is heard in the soundtrack music, but
most is spoken. At least 210 F-words, lots of anatomical references and slang terms, lots
and lots of scatological references, several mild obscenities, several insults and lots of
racial epithets (they're mostly used between friends in a non-derogatory way). [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Hip-hop lifestyles, emulating another culture's lifestyle,
differences between cultures, blackmail, murder, experimentation, rebellion, marijuana
use.
MESSAGE - People use and exploit each other for their own benefit.
Pretending to be what you're not can be fun and exciting, but it can also lead to
dangerous repercussions. Be true to yourself.
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