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.
Julia Roberts and John Malkovich redo the Dr. Jekyll/Mr.
Hyde story as seen through the eyes of housemaid Mary Reilly.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A couple of passionate kisses and sexual innuendo. A line
drawing of a male organ. A prostitute is shown with her arms over her naked breasts. A man
rips off a woman's nightgown and licks her back.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A child is beaten (we only see shadows and hear screams).
The child is then put in a closet with a rat. A child is kicked and stomped and blood is
shown on her torso. A man breaks a teacup and has a bloody gash on his hand; he pulls out
a shard of glass with his teeth. A room is drenched in blood. An eel is hacked to death,
bloody animal carcasses and organs, blood on a table. A man is holding a woman's
decapitated head with blood dripping from it. A man chases a woman. A man is beaten in the
face and head with a cane.
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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