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Black comedy about a young couple
(Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore) who think they found their perfect
home in New York City's competitive real estate market: A huge,
affordable brownstone in Brooklyn that happens to be a converted
duplex apartment: But an apparently sweet old lady (Eileen Essell)
lives in the upstairs apartment and she soon consumes every moment
of their lives with inane requests that lead to various accidents.
They have to wait until she leaves or dies -- naturally, or with a
little help. Also with Harvey Fierstein, Swoosie Kurtz and Maya
Rudolph. Directed by Danny DeVito. [1:37]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A man and a woman kiss, they have sex,
and we see them afterward when the woman sits up (we see her bare
back and the man is bare-chested). A man and a woman kiss in bed, he
takes off his shirt and we see his bare back and chest. A man and a
woman kiss in bed, and a man and a woman kiss. A female doctor reaches
under a man's hospital gown to examine his private parts and he
appears to be enjoying it. An elderly woman accuses a man of forcing
sex on her while she was unconscious (he is referred to as a sexual
predator). An elderly woman undresses for a bath (we see her covered
by bubbles), we see her reach under the bubbles with a sponge and
hear her moaning. A man and a woman kiss a few times. An animated
man and woman kiss. A man pulls up a woman's shirt to show her tummy
(she's pregnant). A woman wears low-cut tops that reveal cleavage, a
woman wears a sheer top and we can see her bra. A man finds a pair
of woman's underwear in garbage, she sees him picking them up and
thinks he's doing something sexual. A man and a woman are startled
when they realize that a woman has watched them have sex. A woman
refers to her husband as Big Dick and to her parrot as Little Dick
and another woman refers to a man's private parts as Mr. Peabody. A
man introduces himself as a pornographer and we see the covers of
three pornographic movies that show women with cleavage and fishnet
stockings.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A man is shot through the shoulder
with a spear gun, a woman grabs him and pulls on the spear (we see a
bloody patch on his sweater), he falls back knocking a tree into a
fireplace and setting it on fire; the woman lies unconscious on the
floor with flames all around her. A woman accidentally shoots a man
in the private parts, we see him in the hospital with his hand
bandaged and a doctor describes, in clinical terms, his injury. A
woman chokes on a piece of caramel, a man performs the Heimlich
maneuver, she spits the caramel out (it sticks to another woman's
forehead), she falls to the floor unconscious, he pounds on her
chest and gives her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. A woman sprays a
man in the eyes with mace, he falls down stairs and we see him later
with his arm in a sling and the skin around his eyes is red. A gas
oven explodes throwing a man through the air (we see his singed face
later), and a woman gets a charge from wires (her hair stands up). A
woman imagines throwing an elderly woman down the stairs, and a man
admits having imagined killing an elderly woman in various ways
(decapitating, bludgeoning, dicing, asphyxiating). A man picks up a
spear gun and accidentally fires it, nearly hitting a woman. A man
falls from a window ledge and lands on a thorn bush (we see him
pulling a thorn from his bloody toe). A man slips on icy stairs and
lands hard on his back. A ceiling collapses, a woman nearly falls
through from above and a man and a woman are nearly hit by the
debris. A bird gets caught in a woman's hair, she screams and the
bird thrashes around. We hear that a man is a hired killer. A man
grabs a man's face and squeezes. A man yells and tears a book apart.
We see a dead person. A woman is sprayed in the face with slimy food
from a sink and she vomits on a man's face (we see the goo as she
vomits and then see it on the man's face). An elderly woman coughs
violently. A man sneezes and another man breathes in the spray. A
computer catches fire, a man takes it outside smoldering, drops it
on the street and a truck drives over it. A woman talks
disparagingly about writers. A man spills foul garbage and has to
pick it up (we see old, decayed food). Three people stand up and we
hear what sounds like someone flatulating. A woman eats a raisin
that has been sprayed with disinfectant (she's trying to prove it's
not a mouse dropping), and a man and a woman contaminate popcorn
with their flu germs and give it to a woman to eat. A woman chews a
piece of hot dog, then spits it out to feed it to her bird.
PROFANITY 4 - 1 obscene hand gesture, 2 sexual
references, 7 scatological terms, 12 anatomical terms, 6 mild
obscenities, 14 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Rent control, elderly people,
greed, adversity, homosexuality, manipulation, spousal abuse,
heaven, death, murder.
MESSAGE - Anything that seems too good to be true
probably is. Old people can be deadly.
(Note: People are shown drinking alcohol and smoking. A man
tries to sell a man drugs on the street.)
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