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.
Black comedy that follows three couples, Dag (Ron Eldard) and Hallie (Kyra Sedgewick), Pete (Patrick Breen)
and Rebecca (Marley Shelton), Andre (Taye Diggs) and Colleen (Sarita Choudhury), and a single woman, Paula (Marisa Tomei), as they learn
the hard way that a kiss is never just that and will inevitably lead to infidelity. [1:29]
SEX/NUDITY 7 - A man and woman have sex, she's on top and thrusting rhythmically and we see her bare breasts and his bare
chest. A woman sits on a man's shoulders, his head is under her skirt and she is moaning while he's evidently performing oral sex. We see
an animated image of a man and a woman having sex: first, thrusting rhythmically, then the man turns around and we see his head nearing
her crotch. A man and woman kiss while in bed together, a man and woman kiss and lie back on a sofa. A man and woman kiss, she wraps her
leg around his waist and he caresses her leg. A man and a woman kiss and talk about him staying the night. A man imagines having sex with
a woman (we see her bare back and hear her moaning). A man and a woman kiss a few times, a woman and a woman kiss, and two men caress each
other. A woman asks another woman if she'd like to have sex with her. A woman tells a man that she has sex with other men apart from her
boyfriend. A woman talks about wanting to have sex with a man who was homosexual and lists the other men with whom she has had sex. A
woman talks about having had an affair with another woman's boyfriend. A woman talks about having had violent sex with a man, and a woman
tied with chains around her wrists says to the man she's apparently having violent sex with that she thinks he's "going for the rape
thing." A woman talks about having had sex with her therapist. An elderly woman asks a man to show her his private parts and he does: he
drops his pants and we see his bare buttocks. We see the side of a woman's bare breast and her bare back as she dresses. We briefly see a
woman in her bra and panties. A woman wears a dress that is open to her waist (we see some cleavage). Women wear tight tank tops and
camisoles that reveal cleavage and bare shoulders, and tight low-rise pants that reveal bare abdomens and bare lower backs. A woman wears
an oversized shirt that hangs open revealing her panties, and possibly a camisole (she's heavily shadowed). A woman wears a dress that
reveals cleavage and bare shoulders. A woman licks an open jar of peanut butter sensually, a woman licks a man's face, and a woman looks
at a man longingly. Men and woman dance close together during a ballet number, some hold each other and some are picked up by their
partners. A woman kisses a dead woman, and a man kisses a dead woman.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A woman is hit by a car (we see the impact and she is thrown through the air). A woman picks up a shard of
glass and slits her wrist; we watch the glass opening her skin and blood comes out of the wound. A man and woman are shot in the back and
they fall to the ground (a woman imagines this). A woman threatens a man with a mallet and he gasps and dies. A woman drinks a beverage
that has been laced with sleeping pills, she lies on a stretcher and dies. A man with a bloody wound on his head is put onto a stretcher
and loaded into an ambulance. A woman talks about having had violent sex with a man, and a woman tied with chains around her wrists says
to the man she's having violent sex with that she thinks he's "going for the rape thing." A man kisses a dead woman and we see her sit up
and grab him (he apparently imagines this). A man threatens another man and accuses him of having an affair with his wife, and a woman
threatens a man. A woman struggles after having been tied to a chair. There are scenes of the aftermath of a plane crash with bodies
strewn on the ground, and smoke and fire. A man talks about a puppy having been crushed under the wheels of a dolly. Two people wrestle
with a man on an airplane trying to get his cell phone. Two men argue, struggle and wrestle on the floor and a woman tries to break the
fight up but ends up in the middle of the struggle. A man drops a bowling ball on another man's foot and he winces and moans. A man yells
at another man and spits on him. A man imagines another man's face on bowling pins, bowls them down and the animated faces on the pins
scream. A woman yells at a man, slams his car door and continues yelling at him. A woman talks about the possibility of a man dying from
an aneurysm. We see two men and a woman dead in coffins. There are several discussions about people trying to commit suicide; we hear
about successful methods and statistics of success and failure. A woman shows us the scars from an attempted suicide. We hear that a woman
is in a coma. A woman talks about coming from a family of Satanists and that they would do sacrifices and wanted her to be the bride of
the devil (we see people chanting and dancing around a fire). A man talks about getting constipated.
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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