This is my favourite movie but it is designed for adults. I'd definitely recommend it for older teens.
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Adaptation
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Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 16; suggested age 15. -
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Common Sense says
Adult stuff only but hilarious and fresh.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 15–16
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What Parents Need to Know
About Adaptation
Parents need to know that the movie has very mature material, including very strong language, brief nudity, sexual references and situations (including masturbation and a porn Web site), drinking, smoking, and drug use. The movie has quasi-comic violence, but characters are injured and killed. Characters break the law, including stealing from nature preserves and making psychotropic drugs.
Read our full review by Nell Minow
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about how we chose our passions - or whether they choose us. Do Laroche and Orlean envy each other? Does Charlie envy Donald? Why did Charlie the real-life screenwriter divide himself in two in the movie portrayal? Why did he take real-life characters like Susan Orlean and John Laroche and have their movie characters do things that they never did? What do you learn from Laroche's reason for not fixing his teeth? If you were going to re-create yourself as a movie character, what would you write? This movie both uses and makes fun of many movie conventions - which ones did you spot?
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Most Recent Reviews
- I rate this title on for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
Wonderful but mature film
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
A Great Writer's Movie
My favorite movie of all time. Great flick. See it.
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
Interesting, offbeat film not for kids
The end was a bit hokey, but the story until then was pretty interesting and engaging.
- I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give it
Not for kids at all... the Violence should have scored a "RED"
the violence in this film is very graphic. Car accidents have strong suprise element and are designed to shock the viewer: they are very realistic. My husband and I still refer to it as one of the scariest things we've seen because it is so realistically violent: you felt you were there...
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| 100% | of parents say it has language their kids can't use |
| 100% | of parents say the sexual behavior isn't age appropriate |
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