• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 17; suggested age 17.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  Insightful, contemporary love story for adults.

Why We Rated This

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Characters pay a price for their bad behavior; parenting models are excellent; recent immigrants' difficulty in assimilating into a new culture is dramatized thoughtfully and with respect for differences; featured misbehaving teen must face the consequences for his criminal activity and learns a lesson; autistic girl is treated with dignity and understanding; interpersonal relationships between races are positive, with disdain shown for intolerance; one police role model is depicted as compassionate and caring, a second is authoritarian and cynical (though not brutal).
• Violence:

  No overt violence. Teen boys are chased and captured by police.
• Sex:

  Playful sexuality suggested between long-time live-in lovers; prostitute uses partial nudity (breasts) and sexual posing to provoke hero; suggested oral sex, foreplay, and partial nudity (breast) during several adulterous sexual scenes, including lovers in bath and in bed; a computer screen with dozens of small photographs of Will's and Amira's bodies flashes for approximately one second (Will's buttocks can be seen in at least one of the photos, nothing else is identifiable).
• Language:

  "F--k" is used a few times to show disgust or frustration. One reference to "penis."
• Consumerism:

  Only prominent product display is Mac computers.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Some social drinking and smoking.

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