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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: June 15th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:33
Wes Anderson's wonderfully winsome comedy, a nostalgia piece about 12-year-olds (Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman) on the run from adults. 94 minutes. (SPM)
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2.
Release Date: June 15th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:35
In this charming comedy, a Victorian doctor (Hugh Dancy) encounters a headstrong activist (Maggie Gyllenhaal) on the way to inventing the vibrator. 94 minutes. (SPM)
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3.
Release Date: June 8th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:33
Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) and the other zoo animals return, this time on a chaotic and intermittently funny chase through Europe with a circus. 90 minutes. (SPM)
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4.
Release Date: June 1st, 2012
Running Time: 1:30
A retiree (Gianni di Gregorio, who wrote and directed) is ignored by the women in his life in this slow-moving Italian comedy. Subtitled; 90 minutes. (SPM)
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5.
Release Date: June 1st, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:56
Dustin Lance Black directs this weird Southern melodrama about a disturbed woman (Jennifer Connelly) having an affair with a Mormon sheriff (Ed Harris). 110 minutes. (SPM)
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6.
Release Date: May 25th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:43
Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline spark in Lawrence Kasdan's gentle comedy, about a drifting couple divided and reunited by a stray dog. Filmed in Utah.
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7.
Release Date: May 25th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:35
Jack Black is nicely constrained in this wry comedy, a true story of a mortician's relationship with a Texas widow (Shirley MacLaine) that ends in murder. 104 minutes. (SPM)
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8.
Release Date: May 25th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:32
A 12-year-old girl (Bailie Madison) joins a rodeo trick-riding group, and aims to find her lost daddy, in this cliche-ridden family drama. 92 minutes. (SPM)
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9.
Release Date: May 20th, 2012
Running Time: 1:30
The personalities come through more than the performances in this documentary, about young ballet dancers in an international competition. 94 minutes. (SPM)
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10.
Release Date: May 11th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:50
The travails of the Manassas Tigers, an inner-city high-school football team, are chronicled in this rousing documentary. 113 minutes. (SPM)
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11.
Release Date: May 11th, 2012
Running Time: 1:40
A new Pontiff (Michel Piccoli) has a panic attack, and the Vatican calls in a shrink (Nanni Moretti, who wrote and directed) in this uneven satire. Subtitled; 102 minutes. (SPM)
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12.
Release Date: May 11th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:33
Los Angeles thirtysomethings (Todd Grinnell, Ali Hillis) go back to their old apartment in this smug indie comedy. 93 minutes. (SPM)
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13.
Release Date: May 4th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 2:22
The mega-mashup of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Captain America (Chris Evans) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is fun and exciting. 142 minutes. (SPM)
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14.
Release Date: May 4th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:21
David Gelb's gorgeously shot documentary profiles Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono, and his painstaking and creative approach to his art. Subtitled; 81 minutes. (SPM)
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15.
Release Date: May 4th, 2012
Running Time: 2:30
Law officers seek a body in the Turkish steppes, and think about reasons to find the truth, in this meditative and overlong drama. Subtitled; 157 minutes. (SPM)
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16.
Release Date: May 4th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:38
College women, led by the gorgeously gawky Greta Gerwig, try to civilize their campus in Whit Stillman's charmingly talky comedy. 99 minutes.
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17.
Release Date: May 4th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 2:25
Kevin Macdonald's exhaustive biography of reggae legend Bob Marley explores his childhood, career and religion - and not nearly enough of his music. 144 minutes. (SPM)
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18.
Release Date: April 27th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 2:02
Ralph Fiennes makes an assured directorial debut in this modern Shakespearean adaptation, playing the haughty Roman general betrayed by his people. 122 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: April 27th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:28
Aardman Animation puts its clay into action with this funny tale of a luckless pirate crew's encounter with Charles Darwin and Queen Victoria. 88 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: April 20th, 2012
Rated G • Running Time: 1:18
Captivating footage of chimpanzees (shot in Ivory Coast) can't quite overcome a dumbed-down Disneyfied narration by Tim Allen. 84 minutes. (SPM)
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