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.
From Andy
Kaufman's (played by Jim Carrey) days on the sitcom "Taxi" to his forays
into professional wrestling to his portrayal of his lounge lizard alter-ego Tony Clifton,
this Milos Forman-directed biopic chronicles the self-proclaimed song-and-dance man's
career highs and lows. With Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti and Courtney Love. [1:58]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A reference to a ménage-à-trois and a couple of kisses. A
man playfully wrestles with two topless prostitutes on a bed. A clothed man and woman lie
next to each other on a bed and then kiss passionately. A man licks a woman's ear and
fondles another's clothed breast. We see lots of women in bikinis at a brothel and
lots of topless showgirls (stars cover their nipples). We see a woman's underwear as
she's wrestling (see Violence/Gore).
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A doctor appears to put his hand into a person's bare
stomach (blood runs down the torso) and pulls out a bloody organ, leaving no cut or scar
on the person's stomach. A woman appears to have a heart attack. We see many
wrestling matches -- most between a man and woman -- during which people bite, flip, slap,
"clothesline," and throw each other to the mat. In one match between two men, a
man is hit in the head with a towel and thrown down on the mat head-first; he lies on the
mat motionless, is wheeled away on a stretcher and is later seen wearing a neck brace. A
man throws chairs at a wall and screams at people; men scuffle with him and finally drag
him out of the building. A woman hits a man with her purse, a man slaps another out of his
chair and several people throw glasses of water on others. Some scuffles and lots of
yelling. We see a bowl of bloody water. We see a man in a casket. A man puts a fake piece
of mucus on his upper lip.
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PROFANITY 6 - About 7 F-words, several anatomical references, many
scatological references, several mild obscenities and a couple of insults; in one scene,
many expletives are bleeped out. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Andy Kaufman, Transcendental Meditation, performance artists,
pro wrestling, early death.
MESSAGE - Find your own passionate agenda and pursue it until the end, no
matter how strange it might seem to others.
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