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.
Ian Michael Smith plays 12 year old Simon Birch, who was
the tiniest baby ever delivered in his town's hospital and believes that God has a special
plan for him. Also with Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Dana
Ivey, Jan Hooks, Beatrice Winde, Cecilley Carroll, Sumela Kay and Jim Carrey. [1:53]
SEX/NUDITY 2 - Some sexual innuendo; a couple of times boys discuss wanting
to feel girls' breasts. A boy stares at a girl's clothed chest, then pulls her into a box
he's lying in and apparently feels her breasts (we only see her beginning to fall into the
box).
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - A woman is hit in the head with a baseball, then falls to
the ground and dies instantly. A bus runs off the road, drives down a hill and plummets
into a lake; none of the passengers drown, but there are several tense minutes where it
seems as if one or more might. A car crashes into a snow bank, but the driver isn't
injured. A boy is hit in the crotch twice, a boy throws a ball through a window and a boy
vomits on a woman.
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PROFANITY 4 - Several anatomical and scatological references, some mild
obscenities and several insults. Two obscene finger gestures. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Being special or different, death, loss of a parent, loss of
a friend, friendship, not knowing who your father is, childbirth, religious faith,
indifferent parents, courage.
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