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.
It's 1955 and people in the small
town of Northfork are being evacuated from their homes to make room
for the construction of a dam. The film mixes scenes of trench-coat
clad government agents hired to remove townspeople who won't leave
and the sickbed dreams of an orphaned boy cared for by a priest. The
dreams include fantastic creatures that may or may not be angels.
With Mark Polish, James Woods, Nick Nolte, Anthony Edwards and Duel
Farnes. Directed by Michael Polish. [1:34]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A man and a woman kiss passionately on
a bed, and we see her bare buttocks under her dress as he caresses
her. A young man and a young woman kiss tenderly.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man's feet are shown nailed to a
porch with railroad spikes (we see a bit of blood). A boy lies dead
and a man grieves over him. A man is shot with a tranquilizer dart
and falls to the floor unconscious. A man shoots at two men in a
car, breaking out the windshield which sprays them with glass. A man
shoves a man against a wall and threatens him. A man jumps across an
opening in a house, slips and hits his head. A cemetery is shown a
few times, with empty holes where coffins had been. A coffin pops to
the surface of a body of water (we see this a couple of times). A
man in a boy's dream has hands that he unscrews and replaces (a
wooden pair, a china pair); we hear twisting and a pop once when he
is changing hands. Another man in a boy's dream has brown-tinged
teeth. A woman in a boy's dream has safety pins attached to her
forehead that hold a wig in place. People talk about having wings
amputated. A boy falls out of bed and is shown on the floor. A boy
dreams of a creature that looks like a wooden horse on stilts and
with a lion's mane. A boy is very sick in bed, drifting in and out
of consciousness and near death. A boy has two scars on his head and
two scars on his back. Two men talk about the smell of death, and
two men talk about exhuming a woman's remains. A few explosions
shake buildings. Men throw furniture and belongings out of a house
and they crash through a window. A man prays for a boy to die. A man
puts a boy in a bathtub of water and ice (he has a fever).
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not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many
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