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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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Woody Allen's trademark themes -- sex, death, anxiety --
reappear in his latest film, where he plays a Franz Kafka character done for laughs. Mia
Farrow co-stars as a sword-swallower.
SEX/NUDITY 2 - None on-screen. An off-camera affair in a brothel between Mia
Farrow and John Cusack, and another bedroom scene in which after-sex discussion takes
place between Allen and Jodie Foster, who plays a prostitute. Some sex discussion among
the prostitutes.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - Several bodies are discovered, but all is done discreetly.
A couple of piano wire stranglings occur on-screen. Nothing too graphic. In an autopsy
room, some spare body parts are waved around by a doctor.
PROFANITY 2 - Fairly mild. There is some descriptive "shop talk"
about sex in the brothel. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Prostitution, murder, vigilantism.
MESSAGE - It's all about existential angst and such-nothing that will
resonate with kids.
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Special Keywords: S2 - V5 - P2 - MPAAPG-13 |
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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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