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Family Film Guide: 'Beer for My Horses,' 'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'
Friday, August 08, 2008
The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:
'Beer for My Horses'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Tweens and older.

What you should know: Country singer Toby Keith and comedian Rodney Carrington star in this movie about a couple of deputies who take a road trip when a girlfriend is kidnapped by a drug trafficker. It has a little bit of everything, from action and comedy to songs and shootouts.

Language: Steady stream of mild vulgarities and at least one "Jesus Christ."

Sexual situations and nudity: A couple kiss and are shown in bed the next morning.

Violence/scary situations: A jealous man attacks a car with a baseball bat, a truck blows up after a chase, a woman is kidnapped and bound and gagged, and people are shot (and sometimes killed) with guns or arrows, sometimes flaming.

Drug or alcohol use: A couple of characters are drug traffickers who target fertilizer for making meth. Adults are shown drinking beer or other alcoholic drinks.

'Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for:Tweens and up.

What you should know:This is a sequel to "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," a 2005 movie based on the Ann Brashares novels of the same name. It returns America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Blake Lively and Amber Tamblyn as Bethesda, Md., friends who find a pair of jeans that magically fit each of them. In this movie, largely based on the book "Forever in Blue," they start to drift apart as they deal with broken hearts, the loss of virginity and possibility of pregnancy, and try to figure out who and what they want.

Language: "Jesus" and "hell," each a few times.

Sexual situations and nudity: A male model poses nude in an art class but is discreetly photographed. A college student and her boyfriend kiss and, in a move conveyed by few words, decide to have sex for the first time. Their coupling is not shown, but the young man later realizes the condom broke, triggering panic. An older woman is in labor as she delivers a baby in a carefully choreographed scene.

Violence/scary situations: Recollections of a troubled woman who later committed suicide, and some tumbles that prove to be mild or played for laughs.

Drug or alcohol use: Two college students share some wine.

First published on August 8, 2008 at 12:00 am
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