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Parents Guide
To assist parents and children in choosing age-appropriate movies, The Salt Lake Tribune presents this parent's movie guide of the sexual content, violence and profane language in current movies. Each category is rated on a scale from 1-to-5, with 1 being the mildest and 5 the most adult-oriented.
S = Sexual content
(including nudity)
V = Violence
(including Chuck Norris's fists)
L = Language
(including crude dialog and drug reference)
Rating = Motion Picture Association of America rating
1.
Release Date: November 30th, -0001
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:32
A wayward dog adopts a family, and plays a vital role in their ups and downs, in this up-and-down drama from filmmaker Mitch Davis ("The Other Side of Heaven"). 87 minutes. (SPM)
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2.
Release Date: November 30th, -0001
Rated PG
An author (Christopher Gorham, who directed) rails against the cheesy but popular YA romance novels he wrote anonymously, in this charming comedy filmed in Utah. 83 minutes. (SPM)
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3.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Running Time: 1:20
Utah history comes alive in this documentary about Ab Jenkins and his car, the Mormon Meteor III, setting records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. 81 minutes. (SPM)
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4.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:39
Two young men of different cultures, raised by the same woman, join forces to find the "djinn fairy" in this good-looking but static animated tale. 93 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Running Time: 1:35
A stiff BYU grad (Jeremy Elliot) and a free-spirited New Yorker (Heather Beers) fall in love in this syrupy LDS-oriented romance from 2002. 103 minutes. (SPM)
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6.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG
An orphan (Bailie Johnson) tries to warm the heart of a mean man (Edward Herrmann) in this syrupy drama, based on a popular holiday story. 100 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:45
A 10-year-old cartographer leaves his Montana home to catch a freight train to the Smithsonian, in this fantasy adventure. 105 minutes.
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8.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:40
A softball star (Lauryn Kent) and a baseball player (Derek Boone) get involved in romantic gamesmanship, in this chaste comedy. 101 minutes.
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Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:30
After a plane crash, two kids (Ella Ballentine, John Paul Ruttan) must survive in the African bush, in this adventure drama. 92 minutes.
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10.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated • Running Time: 1:41
Utah Valley University students comprise most of the cast and crew of this exuberant and well-staged modern-dress version of Shakespeare's tragic romance. 101 minutes. (SPM)
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11.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:25
An awkward explorer must rescue his beloved Sara from a nasty millionaire who's seeking the lost necklace of King Midas, in this animated adventure from Spain. 85 minutes.
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12.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Running Time: 1:12
This documentary, about the advocates for sustainable farming in the face of industrial agriculture, feels like a rehash of last year's "Food, Inc." 71 minutes. (SPM)
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13.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:30
Competitors in a national grocery-bagging competition (including one from Utah) are profiled in this tedious documentary. 80 minutes. (SPM)
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14.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Running Time: 1:28
Former Labor secretary Robert Reich talks about wage disparity, and why it's bad for the economy and democracy, in this eye-opening documentary. 89 minutes. (SPM)
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15.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Running Time: 1:57
The discovery of the largest T. rex specimen ever, and the legal and government battle that ensued, is chronicled in this eye-opening documentary. 95 minutes. (SPM)
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16.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Running Time: 1:30
Katie Couric narrates this engaging documentary, which talks about America's obesity problem - and points fingers at the food industry and lax regulation. 92 minutes. (SPM)
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17.
Release Date: January 1st, 1999
Sisters (Morgan James, Caroline DeGraeve) search for their father's secret, and missing gold, in this Western, filmed in Utah. 88 minutes.
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18.
Release Date: January 1st, 2003
The life of Ste. Therese of Lissieux, the French girl who showed "the little way" into heaven, is given a reverent treatment in this plodding, low-budget drama.
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19.
Release Date: October 10th, 2003
Rated PG
The daily life and spiritual work of four LDS missionaries are detailed in this warm comedy by writer-director Scott S. Anderson. The cast, notably KC Clyde as a jaded missionary and Kirby...
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20.
Release Date: December 25th, 2003
Running Time: 1:33
A man (Liu Ye) takes over his father's rural Chinese postal route, and learns some lessons about his distant dad (Teng Rujun). A simple story of father and son, tradition vs. modernity, is...
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