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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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Jean-Claude Van Damme is an escaped convict who comes to a
pretty widow's (Rosanna Arquette) rescue and stays for dinner, shares her bed and becomes
surrogate father to her two children.
SEX/NUDITY 7 - A woman takes it all off as she undresses for a shower (while
a man is peeping through the window). A man also takes it off while bathing in a pond, and
flashes his posterior when it's time to dry up. There's a rather torrid sex scene with
upper body nudity and passionate groping and kissing. A frank discussion about the size of
a man's private parts takes place between a woman and her young children.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - After a prison bus crashes, there are some bloody heads
and injured men. A man is shot in the carotid artery and dies from bleeding. Van Damme
fights a number of men using fists, feet and sticks, so there's a lot of punching,
kicking, batting, crunching, etc., but not much blood is shown. A policeman handcuffs a
man and proceeds to bash him with his night stick. There's a fire in a barn, but nobody
dies. A man is clobbered by a horse, there's a fight with a pitchfork and a man gets
thrown through a car windshield and is then shot. Inevitably, he's very bloody.
PROFANITY 5 - 3 F-words and an assortment of other 4 letter words ranging
from the scatological to the anatomical. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Violence as a solution to problems, police brutality and
corruption, redemption.
MESSAGE - Stand up for what you believe in. Even people who may have done
something bad in their lives, can have good hearts. In the end you have to pay for past
transgressions.
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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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