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Family Film Guide: 'Gridiron Gang,' 'Everyone's Hero'
Friday, September 15, 2006

The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'Gridiron Gang'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Teens and above.

What you should know: The Rock stars in this drama, based on a real story, about a probation officer who starts a football team at a juvenile detention camp.

Language: A constant stream of the sort of three- or four-letter words, curses and other harsh phrases permissible in a film rated PG-13. The N-word is also used.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: In addition to hard hits on the football field, punches are thrown and shots (some lethal) fired. The movie either dramatizes or, more commonly, makes references to the serious crimes that landed the teenage boys in the camp.

Drug and alcohol use: Nothing notable.


'Everyone's Hero'

Rated: G.

Suitable for: Families, kids 7 and over, young teens.

What you should know: Animated comedy-adventure tells the story of a young boy's thousand-mile journey to find Babe Ruth's bat and help the slugger and the New York Yankees win the World Series. The project's theme of perseverance against the odds was inspired by the film's originating director and executive producer, the late Christopher Reeve.

Language: None, unless you're offended by references to an illegal baseball pitch called the "boogerball."

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: A few scenes of mild peril.

Drug and alcohol use: None.

First published on September 15, 2006 at 12:00 am