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.
Tom Cruise stars as a hot shot Harvard law school graduate
who unknowingly gets a job with a conservative law firm which is really working for the
Mafia. Based on John Grisham's best selling book.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Some passionate kissing, presumably leading to lovemaking.
There is one sex scene where we see the participants kissing, groping, touching each
other, and rolling about entwined; there's no nudity. There are a couple of barely
visible, very quick glimpses of nudity though, in some grainy black and white photos. In
another scene, a man unbuttons a woman's dress to reveal her back and a bra strap. There
are some references to oral sex.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - One character is shot repeatedly: once in the ear, then
the shoulder, and twice in the chest. A woman is splattered with his blood, while he
manages to shoot another man in the knee, before he dies. Another man is shot through a
glass door, and yet another is kicked until he's inert.
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PROFANITY 6 - The F-word is used about 23 times, and there are about 15
scatological and anatomical terms and other curses. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The Mafia, greed, murder, blackmail, infidelity, idealism.
MESSAGE - Money can't buy happiness. If it sounds too good to be true, it
probably is. Intelligence is the best weapon.
A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period. While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process.
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