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.
Keanu Reeves stars as a man who falls for his brother's
wife (Cameron Diaz) on her wedding day.
SEX/NUDITY 6 - Sexual innuendo, kissing. A Vegas show with some
bare-breasted showgirls and a couple of G-string clad buttocks. A sex scene in a bathroom
(Diaz and Reeves) with kissing, moaning and thrusting; a sex scene in a car with the same;
Diaz appears to be performing oral sex on Reeves: they're kissing and then we see her head
in his lap.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A couple of men are shot with some blood on their chest,
abdomen and arm (one dies). A man is suffocated and dies. A woman is shot; we see blood on
a blanket covering her and we then see the gaping wound. During a fight part of a man's
ear is bitten off; there's blood and the ear looks scabby and disfigured throughout the
rest of the film. A man's head is smashed into a headlight with some blood. Foot chases,
scuffles, fistfights, vicious beatings with punches, kicks and blood, threatening with
guns. A man is beaten with a bat.
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PROFANITY 8 - 25+ F-words, many scatological references and anatomical
references, some mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Showgirls and strippers, Las Vegas, falling in love,
betrayal, revenge.
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