Fracture (R)
Cat-and-mouse thriller is pretty but predictable.
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- Studio: New Line Cinema, New Line Cinema
- Directed By: Gregory Hoblit
- Cast: Embeth Davidtz, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling
- Running Time: 083 minutes
- Release Date: 04/19/2007
- Video/DVD Release Date: 08/14/2007
- Genre: Thriller
- MPAA Rating: R
- MPAA Explanation: language and some violent content.
Parents need to know
Families can talk about how the movie depicts its wealthy villain. Does it rely on Anthony Hopkins' performances in other movies to flesh out his character? How does actors' previous work influence how audiences react to them? Families can also discuss the appeal of legal/courtroom thrillers. How realistically do they represent the U.S. justice system? Why do so many of them have tidy endings? Is that true of real life courtroom cases?
Message
Social Behavior:
Man tries to kill his wife and fool the legal system; young lawyer struggles with corruption but eventually makes the right choice.
Consumerism:
Mac laptops, cars (BMW, Porsche), L.A.'s Hotel Miramar.
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Some drinking at parties.
Violence
Man shoots a woman in the face: Viewers see the shot, then the movie cuts to her falling and her bloody body on the floor (this image is repeated in flashbacks). The killer drags a bloody body across the floor, leaving a smear; man shoots himself off screen, but his bloody head is visible several times (in the present and in flashbacks); in a drawn-out scene, doctors "pull the plug" on a comatose patient; man is tackled by police, his face pressed into the floor.
Sex
Credits sequence shows a sex act in extreme, shadowed close-up (making it hard to decipher); a woman has an affair; talk of intercourse in a courtroom setting; man says his wife/kids left him because he had an affair; post-sex scene in bedroom (man and woman get dressed); repeated joke about a private investigator named "Dick" has innuendo; some crude language ("He's trying on the dress, he's sniffing the panties," "put your fingers up [the] skirt" of a dead woman, etc.).
Language
Frequent uses of "f--k," as well as other language, like "a--hole," "hell," "s--t," "ass," "goddamn," "screwed," and "bastards."
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