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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. |
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Aidan Quinn, Brad Pitt and Henry Thomas are brothers in
love with the same woman (Julia Ormond) and Anthony Hopkins is their strong-willed father.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Several passionate kisses. Pitt is seen shirtless a number of
times and his behind is exposed. A woman is topless. There are two passionate love making
scenes with lots of kissing, and exposed shoulders and backs.
VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - A teenager is attacked by a bear leaving three bloody
scratch marks on his arm. There are scenes of war: men are shot and fall in fiery
explosions, a man's face is cut and blood is shown, corpses are shown and a couple of
blackened bodies and skeletons, a man gets tangled in barbed wire and is shot many times
by a machine gun; he slowly and graphically dies. A man is shown holding a bloody heart.
Two soldiers have their throats slit, and are scalped. A woman is shot and another shoots
herself (off-screen). Several men are shown being shot, stabbed and impaled. A skinned
animal carcass is shown and the bloody heart of a zebra as it is being removed. A graphic
scene showing the shooting of a cow which has been entangled in barbed wire.
PROFANITY 5 - Three F-words, two scatological terms and a few mild
obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Frontier life, family loyalty.
MESSAGE - Family loyalty is the most important thing in life: your family
will always love and protect you.
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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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