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.
Director Clint Eastwood also stars as a Texas sheriff who's
after escaped convict Kevin Costner.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - There is one sex scene which takes place in a diner: we see a
woman in her underwear and later her bare derriere is exposed. She simulates oral sex
using a pickle as her visual aide. She and Kevin Costner start having sex on one of the
restaurant tables, and he's shown licking her backside. A boy interrupts the
"passion" and the scene is over.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - There is an attempted rape scene. A young boy, who is
being held hostage, is slapped violently several times. A man is shot off-screen, and
there's a close-up of his dead, bloody body. Another dead body is found in the trunk of a
car, and there is a quick close-up shot. A family is held at gunpoint, and a boy shoots a
man in the stomach; we see his bloody wound. The man is then shot in the chest -- it's
bloody and graphic.
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PROFANITY 4 - A wide variety of creatively profane terminology, ranging from
the scatological to the anatomical. No F-words. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Child abuse.
MESSAGE - Things aren't always the way they appear to be on the surface.
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