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Family Film Guide: 'Premonition,' 'Starter for Ten'
Friday, March 16, 2007

The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'Premonition'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature tweens and older.

What you should know: Sandra Bullock plays a wife and mother of two who is told her husband has died in an accident. Yet, when she awakens the next day, he is alive again, in this time-shifting thriller also starring Julian McMahon.

Language: One f-word and a half-dozen milder expletives.

Sexual situations and nudity: A couple is seen kissing as a prelude to something more intimate.

Violence/scary situations: A fiery, fatal crash is shown, and a character accidentally runs into a glass door and is bloodied and cut. Someone who is hysterical is carted off in an ambulance and later restrained, and a coffin is dropped, prompting shrieks.

Drug or alcohol use: An adult drinks some wine.


'Starter for Ten'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature tweens and above.

What you should know: James McAvoy, Idi Amin's physician in "The Last King of Scotland" and Mr. Tumnus in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," is a working-class student navigating his way through his first year at Bristol University and chance to compete on a televised quiz show.

Language: A handful of mild words.

Sexual situations and nudity: Kisses are exchanged. A naked couple briefly roam around a kitchen but their private parts are cleverly blocked out. Bubbles obscure a couple sharing a bath.

Violence/scary situations: Heads are literally butted, and punches thrown.

Drug or alcohol use: Lots of alcohol is consumed and a couple share a joint.

First published on March 16, 2007 at 12:00 am