Movies from a family perspective:
Rated: PG.
Suitable for: Tweens and up.
What you should know: Amy Adams plays a Boston resident who decides to fly to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on Leap Day. Her travel plans go awry, throwing her into close quarters with an Irish pub owner played by Matthew Goode. Cast also includes Adam Scott and, in extended cameo, John Lithgow.
Language: A couple of uses of Christ or Jesus and a few very mild expletives.
Sexual situations and nudity: Passionate kisses are exchanged, and characters appear in underwear or towels after showering, but it's all pretty modest.
Violence/scary situations: A turbulent plane flight, car accident in which no passengers are involved, someone is conked in the head, and fists fly in a barroom brawl.
Drug or alcohol use: Adults drink wine, beer or champagne, and a few get drunk.
Rated: PG-13.
Suitable for: Teens and up.
What you should know: Terry Gilliam directs Heath Ledger in his final performance. After Ledger died, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepped into this fantastical morality tale, set in the present day, to finish the film.
Language: A couple of uses of profanity and less than a dozen mild expletives.
Sexual situations and nudity: A woman uses very long hair to hide her apparent nudity, some kisses are exchanged and propositions made.
Violence/scary situations: The devil appears to collect on a long-ago debt that involves a teenage girl. Forces of good and evil vie for strangers' souls, and there are some disturbing images involving men being hanged and a demon snake, along with explosions, exchange of punches, destruction of a building and use of children as victims of a nefarious scheme.
Drug or alcohol use: Adults either drink or talk about being drunk.
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