|
| |
|
PLEASE HELP! Although our site is very popular, the current economic climate has reduced our revenues just when we need extra security to prevent attacks from hackers who don't like what we do. If you think what we do is worthwhile, please
donate or
become a member. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ASSIGNED NUMBERS |
|
|
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. |
|
[more »] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Robin Williams stars in this comedy about a wacky doctor
who brings love and laughter to even the dreariest hospital bed. With Daniel London,
Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Lee McCain,
Harve Presnell, Daniella Kuhn, Jake Bowen, Peter Coyote, James Greene, Michael Jeter and
Harold Gould. [1:55]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A few innocent shots of a man's buttocks (not sexual at all);
one lingers. A shot of another man's buttocks while he's getting an injection. Some sexual
innuendo and references to body parts.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - A character is shot offscreen (we hear a gunshot) and
later hear about the assailant having shot himself. One woman has an infected leg sore,
another patient has a bloody, gashed arm with a few cuts and a diabetes patient has a
swollen black toe. Scenes of a children's cancer ward may be upsetting. Although we
don't see much it is obvious that these children are suffering. A patient throws
things at his nurses and one of his visitors.
PROFANITY 3 - A handful of anatomical references; some mild obscenities and
scatological references. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Being a doctor vs. being a healer, alternative medicine,
disease and death, mental illness, professionalism, masturbation.
MESSAGE - Don't be afraid to be yourself, however strange you might seem to
others. Message for doctors: treat the patient as well as the disease.
|
|
Special Keywords: S2 - V2 - P4 - MPAAPG-13 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
