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.
Coen brothers film with George
Clooney as a slick Beverly Hills divorce attorney who's never lost a
case. But he meets his match when he runs into a woman (Catherine
Zeta-Jones) who makes a sport out of marrying men and divorcing
them, in order to cash in on large divorce settlements. Having
helped her latest husband avoid paying her off, she vows revenge and
the attorney himself becomes her next potential victim. What she
doesn't expect is actually falling in love with him. Also with
Cedric the Entertainer, Geoffrey Rush and Billy Bob Thornton.
Directed by Joel Coen. [1:40]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - A man and a woman go into a hotel room,
the woman removes her dress, (we see her in bra and panties), the
man removes his pants (we see him in boxers), she jumps on him
wrapping her legs around his waist, and they fall onto the bed
kissing. A man and a woman kiss, he lays her back on a bed, and they
kiss again. A man and a woman kiss a few times. Several women in
underwear and stockings jump on a bed with a man in a T-shirt and
boxer shorts. A man comes home and finds his bed and wife rumpled,
and another man in the house with whom his wife has apparently just
had sex. A man touches a woman's hand tenderly, two men hug (not
sexually). A woman admires a bare-chested man, and a man admires a
woman as she walks seductively down a flight of stairs. We see brief
shots of a couple in acts of infidelity: one appears to be a
dominatrix scenario (there isn't much detail). A woman goes into
some detail in a courtroom about her husband's sexual interests: she
discusses devices that he used, and that she was his sexual slave,
etc. A group of men watch a video of a man and woman having sex (we
see her touch his clothed buttocks) and then watch the reactions of
the other men. Sexual infidelities and indiscretions are discussed
in a courtroom a few times. A man talks about being impotent. A
woman wears a swimsuit that reveals cleavage and her bare thigh.
Women wear low-cut tops throughout the movie exposing cleavage. Nude
animated cupids flit through the air.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - Two men spray each other in the face
with mace, another man holds a gun on them, he is sprayed in the
face with mace, and he puts a gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger
killing himself (we hear the shot). A man falls dead after suffering
a coronary. A man shoots at a woman as she drives away in a car. A
man pulls a gun on a man. A woman hits a man holding a gun on the
back of the head twice with a statue, and then pokes his buttocks
with the points on the top of the statue (we see bloody holes in his
pants). A man lunges at a man and tries to strangle him. Two dogs
bark and growl at a man and lunge at him in a car, and a man is
chased by two dogs and he climbs up a fence. Three people discuss
killing another person. A van side-swipes a car. A man with a camera
barges into a room where a man and woman are in bed and they scream
and run for cover. We see a very old, wrinkled man attached to tubes
and IVs several times (once in a dream) and his teeth grow long and
pointed and he laughs maniacally. A man and a woman yell at each
other. A car drives recklessly on a winding road (the driver is
apparently drunk).
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PROFANITY 5 - 1 F-word, 17 sexual references, 9
scatological terms, 34 anatomical terms, 14 mild obscenities, 7
religious profanities, 11 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
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