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Family Film Guide
Friday, June 16, 2006

The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'

Rated: PG-13.

Best for: Teen boys and the girls who tolerate them.

What you should know: Fast cars and gun fights in Tokyo, without the stars of the previous two films in the franchise. Among the reasons listed for the PG-13 rating: "reckless and illegal behavior involving teens."

Language: A few swear words.

Sexual situations and nudity: A mild scene implies teens in a passionate situation.

Violence/scary situations: Frequent sequences of peril, gun violence and car crashes.

Alcohol and drug use: Teens are seen in social situations with glasses of liquor visible.

'Nacho Libre'

Rated: PG for some rough action, crude humor and language.

Best for: Children over 8 or 9, teens and adults.

What you should know: Director Jared Hess (of "Napoleon Dynamite" fame) fashions a family farce out of lucha libre Mexican wrestling. Pudgy Ignacio (Jack Black) -- Nacho to his friends -- is a cook in a monastery-orphanage that can't afford decent groceries. To bring in cash and nourish beautiful Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera) as well as the orphans, Nacho recruits skeletal sidekick Hector Jimenez and becomes a semi-legendry luchador himself.

Language: Some mild profanity.

Violence/scary situations: The simulated wrestling-ring violence is no more or less extreme than that of a WWE bout on television.

Alcohol and drug use: None.

'The Lake House'

Rated: PG.

Best for: Mature tweens, teens and older moviegoers.

What you should know: Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock star in this romantic fantasy about a couple who start corresponding, despite the fact he lives in 2004 and she, in 2006.

Language: Two uses of the word "Christ" as an exclamation, and a handful of mild four-letter words.

Sexual situations and nudity: A couple slow dance and share a kiss.

Violence/scary situations: The aftermath of a pedestrian accident is shown, and a character is hospitalized after a mild heart attack.

Alcohol and drug use: Adults drink wine, beer or champagne.

First published on June 16, 2006 at 12:00 am