• Is it age appropriate?

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 14, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 15.

• Is it any good?

  3.0

• Common Sense says

  Intense relationship drama for adults only.

Why We Rated This for Ages 15–18

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Disturbing moments include a child nearly causing a playmate to drown; physical abuse between spouses (a man and woman attack each other verbally and with their arms and fists in a discomfortingly realistic fight); crimes such as tampering with evidence; racial conflict.
• Violence:

  Lots of it, and in all forms -- from verbal abuse to outright murder. A serial killer hunts down women and unceremoniously dumps a partially naked body into a lake. Also, children kill a pet, intending to use it for sacrifice. A man punches his pal on the nose and breaks it. One of the children keeps a dead bird that she presumably also killed.
• Sex:

  A husband and wife have sex (though there's no nudity). Some talk of sex. A partially naked corpse.
• Language:

  Occasional use of everything from "damn" to "holy s--t" to "f--k."
• Consumerism:

  Some product placement in the gas station, but nothing easily identifiable.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Lots of alcohol. The four men guzzle beer on their fishing trip and at a party beforehand. Some shots of characters smoking.

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