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College Road Trip | 2008 | G | - 2.3.1

Raven-Symoné stars as a high school student who dreams of going away to college. However, her overprotective father (Martin Lawrence) has different plans for his only daughter, and when she decides to take a road trip to a college interview, he decides to accompany her and to visit several schools in order to pick the one his daughter will attend. Also with Arnetia Walker, Michael Landes, Brianna Russo, Margo Harshman, Joseph R. Gannascoli, Donny Osmond, Kym Whitley and Adam LeFevre. Directed by Roger Kumble. [1:23]

SEX/NUDITY 2 - A husband and wife kiss each other on the lips. A husband and wife are shown lying in the same bed (no nudity). A man and woman hug at a wedding and we see another couple kiss on the lips.
 Teen girls wear tight fitting shirts, tank tops and legging pants, and teen girls are shown wearing pajamas (we see bare shoulders). A boy is shown sitting in a bathtub with a pig (the boy's bare chest and shoulders are shown).
 In two scenes a man gives another man a big hug and kisses him on the cheek. Two men are startled and quickly embrace.
 A man is mistaken for a predator when he's found hiding under the bed of a female college student (the man is arrested and put into a jail cell by the campus police).
 Teenage girls are seen dancing, pumping their arms and chest back and forth, which is referred to as "crumping." We see several couples dancing with one another, and doing the tango.

VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - We see a man use a taser on a young man, who then falls to the ground (no gore); in another scene we see a woman taser a man who shakes from the charge.
 A woman punches a man in the face (we hear the impact, but do not see any blood).
 A man is mistaken for a predator when he's found hiding under the bed of a female college student (the man is arrested and put into a jail cell by the campus police). We see a man being escorted from a police precinct by an officer (he is wearing handcuffs).
 On a wildlife television program we see a cheetah chase and catch a female gazelle (the narrator announces that the cheetah ripped off the gazelle's head).
 A man repeatedly fires a gun at a round shooting target (we hear the loud gunshots).
 A man and woman skydive and crash land into a man on a golf course, and the man falls and rolls on the ground and lands in a pond. We see a teenage girl fall and roll on the ground. A pig jumps on a man and knocks him into the wall. We see a man fall out of the bed and hear a thud sound. Several men topple over a table, which crashes to the floor. A man is blinded by bright lights and falls to his knees.
 A large vehicle falls off a wooded cliff and rolls over several times, we hear glass shattering and hear the impact of the vehicle hitting against the cliff. Two golf carts repeatedly crash into each other (no one is hurt).
 We see several people wrapped in bandages as if they have injuries. One person in bandages is seen sitting in a wheelchair.
 A woman with a blanket over her head stands on the roof of a house (we do not see her jump or fall).
 A man is nervous and shatters a glass with his hands (we hear the glass shatter, but we do not see any blood). A boy gets angry, breaks a pencil in half with his hands and gets a splinter. A man drops a bottle of perfume on the floor and we hear the glass shatter.
 A teenage girl uses her finger to slice across her throat as a threat to her younger sibling. A young boy asks if his mother is going to "kill" him. A father states that he is going to have a "state execution." A man with a patch on his eyes talks of being stabbed in the eye (when the patch is removed, we see that he has a healthy eye). A man speaks of a pig looking at him as if he "cooked his cousin."
 A man is seen picking his nose. A man chokes on a fly that flies into his mouth while he is singing. A man is pushed into a table of food and chocolate from a chocolate fountain squirts on him and a sauce squirts onto a woman's clothing. In several scenes a pig's nose is shown in close proximity. A pig sees a roasted pig on a dinner buffet and runs in the opposite direction.

LANGUAGE 1 - Name-calling (Tinkerbell, Houdini pig, crazy, Mr. School Spirit, control freak, Einstein).

SUBSTANCE USE - A father tells his daughter that caffeine is a drug and that she does not do drugs and proceeds to dump out coffee beans; a pig eats coffee beans and begins to act wildly.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Father/daughter relationships, trust, lying, overprotective parents, college life.

MESSAGE - Parents must let their children live their own dreams and trust that they will make good decisions.

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