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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: April 6th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 0:17
A lawman (John Freeman) shows mercy to an exiled grave-robber (David H. Stevens) in this pokey drama, based on a chapter of Utah history. 105 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: April 6th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 0:17
A lawman (John Freeman) shows mercy to an exiled grave-robber (David H. Stevens) in this pokey drama, based on a chapter of Utah history. 105 minutes. (SPM)
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3.
Release Date: March 30th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:46
Director Tarsem Singh brings great visuals, but not enough silly fun, to this colorful reworking of the Snow White tale - starring Julia Roberts as the evil queen. 106 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 30th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:29
Madonna, as director, gives a glossy but facile treatment to the life of Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough), the divorcee for whom King Edward VIII abdicated. 119 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 30th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 2:25
A Polish sewer worker (Robert Wieckiewicz) shelters Jews in the tunnels below Lvov, in this thoughtful and harrowing drama of the Holocaust. Subtitled; 145 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 30th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:52
A sheik's business rep (Emily Blunt) hires a nerdy fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) to create a desert miracle, in this sweetly comic tale. 107 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 23rd, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 1:45
A college student (Rachel Hendrix) searches for the biological mother who tried to abort her, in this hamfisted Christian drama. 107 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 16th, 2012
Rated PG
This locally produced geek comedy tries really hard to be funny — and completely fails. 96 minutes. (SDP)
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Release Date: March 9th, 2012
Rated PG-13 • Running Time: 2:19
Director Andrew Stanton ("Wall-E") brings alive Edgar Rice Burroughs' sci-fi epic, about an Earth hero (Taylor Kitsch) saving Mars from destruction. 131 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 9th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:45
Woody Harrelson gives a fearless performance as a corrupt L.A. cop whose life is unraveling in this atmospheric drama. 108 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 9th, 2012
Running Time: 1:40
Director Valérie Donzelli and co-writer Jérémie Elkaîm star in this energetic and inspiring drama, as a couple who learn their baby has a brain tumor. Subtitled; 100 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 9th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 1:40
Jennifer Westfeldt writes, directs and stars as a woman who has a baby with a platonic friend (Adam Scott), in this shallow relationship comedy. 107 minutes. (SPM)
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13.
Release Date: March 2nd, 2012
Running Time: 1:27
An 11-year-old (James Rolleston) worships Michael Jackson and his wayward dad (Taika Waititi, the film's writer-director) in this too-slight New Zealand comedy. 84 minutes. (SPM)
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14.
Release Date: March 2nd, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:35
The "Despicable Me" crew creates a heavy-handed adaptation of the classic tale of the little guy who "speaks for the trees" in the face of industrialization. 94 minutes. (SPM)
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Release Date: March 2nd, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 2:06
Angelina Jolie wrote and directed this wartime romantic drama, of a Serbian soldier re-encountering a Bosnian internee. Subtitled.
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Release Date: February 24th, 2012
Rated R • Running Time: 2:04
This intriguing Oscar nominee from Belgium follows a steroid-injecting bruiser, dealing with past injuries and a current deal with gangsters. Subtitled; 124 minutes. (SPM)
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17.
Release Date: February 24th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 1:34
Locally produced story about an unemployed gamer is mildly funny, but unappealing central character won’t win over a general audience. (SP)
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Release Date: February 17th, 2012
Rated G • Running Time: 1:34
A four-inch-high family befriends a boy in this enchanting adaptation of "The Borrowers," made by Japan's Studio Ghibli ("Spirited Away," "Howl's Moving Castle"). 94 minutes. (VH)
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19.
Release Date: February 10th, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 2:11
The "Star Wars" saga returns to theaters, this time in 3D, starting with the 1999 prequel that introduces the young Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd). 136 minutes.
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Release Date: February 3rd, 2012
Rated PG • Running Time: 2:03
A reporter (John Krasinski) and an activist (Drew Barrymore) get involved in rescuing ice-trapped whales in this family-friendly film. 104 minutes.
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