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.
Timothy Hutton and Lara Flynn Boyle star in a thriller
about a temp that wants to make it to the top of the corporate world -- and will do
anything to reach her goal, even if that includes murder.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - There are a few sexual comments, and we see Boyle dressed in
a negligee (all that is apparent is cleavage). Boyle is briefly glimpsed lying on a bed in
a darkened room, while writhing and groaning. Masturbation is suggested.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A man gets his hand caught in a shredder and we see a
great deal of blood spray his face, a dead man's splotched, discolored face is shown, a
corpse is shown hanging, two people eat cookies and bleed from the mouth -- with one
person briefly spewing blood on the other -- a security guard is shown with a knife in his
bloody chest, two fistfights with no blood, two people are hit in the head with a steel
pipe resulting in blood, and a woman falls to her death, but no blood is shown.
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PROFANITY 5 - Eight F-words, and other more minor obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Murder, marital separation, using sex to get ahead at work,
deceit and betrayal.
MESSAGE - The corporate world is dog eat dog and some people will do
anything to get ahead. The good guy does win in the end.
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