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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.
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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