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.
Matthew Perry stars as a dentist whose life takes a turn
for the worst when a mobster hit-man (Bruce Willis) moves in next door. Also with Rosanna
Arquette, Michael Duncan, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet and Kevin Pollak. [1:41]
SEX/NUDITY 7 - Lots of sexual innuendo and lots of passionate kissing. We
see a woman straddling a man during intercourse with movement and moaning (she's
wearing a bra) and a couple in bed together (they're covered by a sheet but bare from
the shoulders up). We hear a woman unzip a man's pants and see her put her head in
his lap; later, we see her wipe off her mouth. A woman taps a man's clothed genitals,
a man grabs his clothed genitals and a woman touches a man's bare chest while licking
her lips. We see three extended shots of a woman's bare breasts and a brief side shot
of a naked woman (only her breasts are visible though). Lots of cleavage; in one scene, we
see the cleavage of a nude but sheet-covered woman sitting up in bed.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - In two different scenes, a person is shot in the chest
(one is shot repeatedly, then falls into water and drowns); also, two other people are
shot and killed (we see bullet marks on their backs with a little blood). A man punches
another in the gut repeatedly. A man pulls a tooth out of a corpse's mouth; we see a
close-up of the bloody extracted tooth. We see a corpse on a surgery table and a close-up
of a corpse getting zipped into a body bag. We see a woman with cuts and nicks all over
her body and face. Two bodies are put into a car, doused with gasoline and torched; the
car blows up. A man vomits and a man catches a fly, seems to swallow it and then spits it
back out. Threatening with guns.
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PROFANITY 5 - 2 F-words, some anatomical and scatological references,
several mild obscenities and many insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Infidelity, contract killing, the Mob, cover-ups, the
suburbs, trickery.
MESSAGE - Even the wimpiest guy can figure out a way to make the right deal
with the right people.
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