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.
A 37-year-old woman (Uma Thurman) who's just been divorced after a nine year marriage, takes the advice of her therapist (Meryl Streep) and starts dating again. When she meets a man who's a decade younger, she shares the intimate details of their relationship with her therapist, while neither of the women is initially aware that the young man is actually the therapist's 23-year-old son. When they do, both women must deal with issues of trust and ethics. Also with Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams and Jerry Adler. Directed by Ben Younger. [1:46]
SEX/NUDITY 7 - A young man and a somewhat older woman have sex: we see his bare chest and back as they lie back on a bed, she removes her top and we see her in a bra, he kisses her chest and abdomen, and they kiss and he thrusts. In another scene, a young man and a somewhat older woman have sex, they kiss, we see their bare shoulders, and they talk and hold each other. We hear a woman moaning loudly as she climaxes. ► A young man (he's bare-chested) and a somewhat older woman kiss passionately, they lie back on a bed, the woman takes off her top (we see her in a bra) and they kiss (it is implied that they have sex). A young man and somewhat older woman kiss passionately in the back of a taxi, the woman climbs on the young man's lap and they continue to kiss. A young man and a somewhat older woman kiss while on a bed, and the woman straddles the man and kisses him again. ► Two young men go to a dance club, a young woman wearing a very short skirt and low-cut top (revealing cleavage and bare thighs) asks one of them to dance, she kisses him, and the next morning he wakes up bare-chested and she is in his apartment (it is implied that they have had sex) wearing one of his shirts (we see her bare abdomen, part of her lace-covered panties and the side of her bare breast). ► A woman talks in graphic detail about the sexual relationship she is having with a younger man: she says, "we have had sex on every surface of my apartment," she describes a part of the young man's anatomy and she talks about him not knowing where a part of her anatomy was but that she showed him. ► A woman wears an extremely low-cut top in several scenes that reveals cleavage and part of her bra, a woman wears a short T-shirt in a few scenes that reveals her bare thighs, a woman wears a sheer top that reveals a patterned bra underneath, a woman wears a low-cut, short top that reveals her cleavage and bare abdomen, a woman wears a spaghetti-strapped top that reveals her bare back and shoulders, and another woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage. ► A young man and a somewhat older woman kiss in many scenes, and a young man and a young woman kiss. ► A young man tells a woman that they are going to have "vacation sex." A man tells a young man that another man is, "jealous because he didn't get in your pants first." A woman talks about the sexual peak of men and women. Two young men talk about dating and that one of them has never had a second date. ► A young man and a woman go clubbing where people are shown dancing.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - In several scenes a young man goes to the homes of women with whom he has had a date and pushes cream pies in their faces as revenge; in one such scene the woman screams for her two brothers who come out of the house and chase the man down the street. ► A young man imagines his now deceased grandmother hitting herself over the head with a skillet in several scenes. ► A young man and a woman yell at each other and say hurtful things.
PROFANITY 5 - 2 F-words, 8 sexual references, 23 scatological terms, 6 anatomical terms (one in Yiddish), 5 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory term for African-Americans, 2 religious profanities, 10 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
SUBSTANCE USE - People drink alcohol in a nightclub, people drink wine at dinner, a man and a woman drink beer and wine at dinner and afterward in a park, a man and a woman drink wine, and two men drink beer. A man smokes a cigarette.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Divorce, dating, age differences between sexual partners, marriage, love, the awkwardness of first dates, homosexuality, culture, women's biological clocks, history, religion, maturity, marrying within religious faiths, doctor/patient confidentiality, sin, sociopaths, infidelity.
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