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Family Film Guide: 'Never Back Down'
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'Never Back Down'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: High school students and older.

What you should know: Sean Faris plays an Iowan who moves to Orlando, Fla., with his widowed mother and younger brother and is drawn into underground fighting and mixed martial arts.

Language: Mild four-letter curses sprinkled throughout.

Sexual situations and nudity: Teens, including two girls at a wild party, kiss, and girls invariably favor skimpy bikinis.

Violence/scary situations: A brawl erupts on a football field, there is a flashback to a fatal drunken-driving accident and talk about a deadly shooting. One boy is beaten so severely that he lands in the hospital (but recovers). Other fights, sanctioned and unsanctioned, are bruising, but no one appears to suffer permanent injury.

Drug or alcohol use: An adult father offers a drink to a teen, and there appears to be beer consumed at a raucous teen bash.

First published on March 14, 2008 at 12:00 am
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