• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 99; suggested age 15.

• Is it any good?

  2.0

• Common Sense says

  Strip club on prom night? Worth a parent preview.

Why We Rated This for Ages 15–18

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Cameron sneaks away from the principal and runs from a police raid in a high-speed chase. A drug dealer makes him (and other teens) fake IDs. Virginia pees in the bushes of the Lincoln Memorial. Teens skinny dip in public. Cameron briefly considers committing suicide ("The Big S"). Cameron outs his boyfriend to his jock best friend. He throws a rock so hard it breaks his boyfriend's window, then convinces his new police friend to drive him away so he isn't caught. Some comments by characters reinforce negative stereotypes.
• Violence:

  Cameron's boyfriend Shane punches him when Cameron kisses Shane's date.
• Sex:

  Lots of sex talk, situations, and innuendo, manly involving a gay teen. Cameron attends a party where teens were "making out and getting it on." A girl wonders if there are "fag fish" who "can give each other blow jobs." Cameron kisses five people in the course of the night, including three adult strangers. Cameron goes to a gay strip club where he tips dancers and ends up with one in his lap. The stripper wears "glitter panties" on his "barely covered ass." Cameron enters an amateur strip contest where he learns "two teenagers bounding up and down can really get a bunch of middle-age men very, very excited." A teen girl tries to sneak a boy into her room by climbing up a trellis.
• Language:

  Lots of derogatory names for gay characters, including "fag," "faggot," "dyke," "fairy," "fudge packer," and "cake boy." Other language includes "bulls--t," "bitch," "f--k" (in various forms), "pissed," "ass," "dick," "asshole," "prick," "Christ on a cracker," "bastard," "retard."
• Consumerism:

  Types of alcoholic beverages; Seventeen magazine; car brands; celebrities; product brands such as McDonald's, Old Navy, and Diesel.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Lots of underage drinking to excess, including beer and Jagermeister. Mother gives her daughter a cocktail; dad winks at his son taking a bottle of vodka as "a little grease for the wheels." Cameron's date vomits and passes out. She smokes a cigarette because she says it helps her sober up; Cameron joins her so she doesn't feel "persecuted." Cameron buys pot and smokes it, finding the dance more fun when he is high. A drug dealer goes to a high school party to find teens so he can sell pot.

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