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.
A desperate director and his group of hopeful actors trick
a big-name action star into playing a role in their low-budget flick "Chubby
Rain." With Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Terence
Stamp, Adam Alexi-Malle, Alfred De Contreras, Robert Downey Jr., Ramiro Fabian, Jamie
Kennedy, Barry Newman, Marisol Nichols, Alejandro Patino, Johnny Sanchez and Kohl Sudduth. [1:37]
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Lots of sexual innuendo (including a reference to erections
and a mild reference to lesbianism) and several kisses, some passionate. It's implied
that a woman has sex with a few people; in one scene we see her kissing a man passionately
and placing his hand on her cleavage, then we see them both nude, from the shoulders up,
in a passionate embrace. During a movie shoot, a woman takes off her shirt in front of a
man (we see her bare back only) and he obviously ogles her breasts. A man stares at a
group of scantily clad, dancing "Laker Girls." A man tells another not to expose
himself to women; later, we see him open his trench coat in front of a group of women (we
only see him from the back). We see the backsides of four men in their underwear and
several women in cleavage-revealing tops.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - Mostly played for laughs: During a movie shoot, a man
pretends he's been shot and smears what looks like a tomato on his chest and face,
milkshake-like goo oozes from a man's cheeks and forehead and his arm falls off, and
a woman pretends to kill another (she emerges from behind a building holding an obviously
fake head with bloody tendons hanging from the bottom). In a movie, we see a very fake
kung-fu action scene during which people are punched, flipped and thrown; we also see a
woman's arms chained above her head. A man is thrown out of a car, another is thrown
out of a house and another is pulled into some bushes. Some reckless driving; a man is
forced to run across a busy freeway twice (he nearly gets hit several times). A man shoots
a drum set and several people are shot at, but no one is hit. A man puts a rubber band
around a sleeping dog's spread legs to keep them closed. Some verbal threatening and
threatening with guns and knives. Twice, a burst of flames in a fireplace nearly burns a
man.
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PROFANITY 5 - One F-word, several anatomical and scatological references,
several mild obscenities and several insults. [profanity glossary]
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