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Family Film Guide
Friday, June 19, 2009

The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

'The Proposal'

Rating: PG-13.

Suitable for: Tweens and up.

What you should know: Sandra Bullock plays a no-nonsense New York book editor who, facing deportation to her native Canada, pretends to be engaged to her assistant, played by Ryan Reynolds. They head for his hometown in Alaska where their ruse threatens to come undone.

Language: A couple of uses of "Jesus" or "Christ" along with a half-dozen mild expletives.

Sexual situations and nudity: All played for laughs, including a kiss and a naked, carefully choreographed collision and tumble. A hapless exotic dancer performs, and jokes are made about fertility and bust lines.

Violence/scary situations: Generally mild. A character makes reference to losing her parents when she was a teen. Someone who cannot swim is unintentionally thrown out of a speeding boat, and another collapses and needs immediate medical care.

Alcohol and drug use: Adults celebrate or relax with alcoholic drinks, and one scene is set in a bar.

'Year One'

Rating: PG-13. The Motion Picture Association of America originally rated the movie R for "some sexual content and language" but changed the rating to PG-13 after the director and producer made cuts.

Suitable for: Mature teens and older.

What you should know: The movie spoofs several stories told in Genesis by having two cavemen encounter the tales firsthand in hopes of getting their cavegirl crushes out of slavery.

Language: Liberal use of sexual terms and stronger version of buttocks.

Sexual situations and nudity: The sexual innuendos are too many to count, and the cavemen and cavewomen a.ore scantily clad in rags.

Violence/scary situations: A man is speared, the two protagonists get stoned by a child and a eunuch and some humans and animals are decapitated. Oh yeah, there are some scary masks, too.

Alcohol and drug use: A reference by a teenager to "smoking some herb." A slave imbibes a whole chalice of alcohol shortly before her sacrifice.

First published on June 19, 2009 at 12:00 am
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