Movies from a family perspective:

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Mature tweens and up.

What you should know: Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker are a New York couple whose marriage is on the rocks when they witness a murder. They enter the Witness Protection Program and are whisked away to a tiny Wyoming town.

Language: Tame, one or two soft expletives.

Sexual situations and nudity: Pretty mild. References to an affair are made and kisses exchanged.

Violence/scary situations: A stabbing victim tumbles from a balcony, a bear threatens violence and people are shot, Tasered or clunked in the head.

Drug or alcohol use: Mainly beer drinking at a rodeo.

-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Moviegoers roughly 10 and up. Although a fairly mild PG-13, it's too violent and long (162 minutes) for the very young.

What you should know: It features a dazzling critter-covered alien world and the best motion-capture animation ever. A disabled Marine is given an alien body to go live among them to convince them to leave their land, and comes to take their side against the developers who want to bulldoze their forest.

Language: A heaping helping of profanity.

Sexual situations and nudity: Alien mating, discreet toplessness, loincloths.

Violence/scary situations: Quite a bit, as there's a war and a lot of hunting-killing that goes on before that war.

Drug or alcohol use: Cigarette smoking.

-- The Orlando Sentinel

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