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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
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Release Date: August 22nd, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:40
A former getaway driver (Dax Shepard) risks his witness-protection identity to rescue his girlfriend (Kristen Bell) in this action-comedy. 100 minutes.
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Release Date: August 17th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:33
A boy who can talk to ghosts discovers he must thwart a centuries-old witch's curse, in this lively, funny work of stop-motion animation. 93 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: August 10th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:44
A smart, sweet romance about a writer (Paul Dano) who types up a dream-girl character, who suddenly comes alive (in the form of Zoe Kazan, the film's writer). 104 minutes. (SPM)
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4.
Release Date: August 8th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 2:01
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones delight in this gentle comedy-drama as a couple going to a marriage counselor (Steve Carell). 100 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 29th, 2013
Rated R • Running Time: 2:20
A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) and a rookie cop (Bradley Cooper) have a fateful encounter in this dark drama about fathers, sons and consequences. 140 minutes. (SPM)
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6.
Release Date: August 8th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:28
Extreme stunts - including flying boats and flipping cars - fill this jaw-dropping documentary, filmed largely in Utah. 85 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: August 10th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:37
Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis play political rivals in a comedy that starts out raunchy and ends up toothless. 85 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: August 10th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:27
The musician and songwriter goes solo, playing new songs and some classics in this moving concert film directed by Jonathan Demme. 87 minutes. (SPM)
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9.
Release Date: August 3rd, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:34
Neurotic middle-schooler Greg (Zachary Gordon) is still trying to lie his way out of embarrassment in this shrill third installment. 94 minutes. (SPM)
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10.
Release Date: August 3rd, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:40
Director Lauren Greenfield presents a fascinating verité portrait of the Siegels, whose super-fortune is threatened by the economic crisis. 101 minutes. (SPM)
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11.
Release Date: March 1st, 2013
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:24
This smart, well-argued documentary examines hunger in America, and how poverty and U.S. farm policies play a part in prolonging it. 95 minutes. (SPM)
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12.
Release Date: February 15th, 2013
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:29
Brendan Fraser lends his voice to Scorch Supernova, a space hero who defends his planet against a nefarious villain in this computer-animated film. 89 minutes.
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13.
Release Date: December 21st, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:31
A woman and an aerialist fall in love, but must find each other through different worlds, in this fantasy based on Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas shows. 91 minutes.
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14.
Release Date: December 19th, 2012
Rated G • Running Time: 1:32
Disney/Pixar's 2001 tale of a little girl invading the monster world returns in a new 3-D rendering.
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15.
Release Date: September 28th, 2012
An uneven compilation of seven short films featuring famous faces. Judi Dench and Julia Stiles star in the best ones. 108 minutes. (SPM)
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16.
Release Date: September 14th, 2012
Rated G • Running Time: 1:41
The 2003 Disney/Pixar classic, about a fish swimming the ocean to find his missing son, returns in a pristine 3-D version. 100 minutes, plus a "Toy Story" short. (SPM)
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17.
Release Date: August 3rd, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:59
A psychologist (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant (Cillian Murphy) investigate a famous psychic (Robert DeNiro) in this thriller. 113 minutes.
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18.
Release Date: August 3rd, 2012
Running Time: 1:24
Filmmaker Todd Solondz again creates a sad-sack character, Abe (Jordan Gelber), but for a change shows some empathy — which rubs off on us. 86 minutes. (SPM)
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19.
Release Date: July 27th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:05
A cat has a double life - as pet to a cop's daughter, and as accomplice to a burglar - in this visually striking but narratively thin animated tale. 70 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: July 13th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:50
Women plot to keep the peace when religious tension grips their remote Lebanese village, in this uneven musical comedy-drama. Subtitled; 100 minutes. (SPM)
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