• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 16.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  Affecting indie drama takes on mature themes.

Why We Rated This for Ages 16–18

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  A man and a women married to others have an affair and are found out by their children. A woman appears insensitive to her ailing husband's pain. A man copes with his physical challenges by lying to his family and smoking weed. A boy bullies another and beats him up, though he gets his comeuppance later. A man talks about the importance of making money and wants to buy bigger and better things for his family. On the positive side, a friendship between two teens appears to create a haven from the storm created by their personal lives.
• Violence:

  A bully kicks and punches a classmate, whose brother then teaches him a lesson that hurts, physically and emotionally. A man skulks around with a rifle, ostensibly to shoot a deer. A son confronts his father, and the exchange nearly turns violent. Couples scream at and fight with each other.
• Sex:

  Two fairly explicit scenes -- one of a couple having sex on a staircase, and another, more tender, scene of teens making love for the first time. Teens also talk about sex, and there's some passionate kissing. Some partial nudity, but more noises and close-up shots of characters reacting. One character looks at porn and appears to be aroused.
• Language:

  Fairly frequent use of words like "tight-ass," "bitch," and "motherf--ker."
• Consumerism:

  Not an issue.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  A man relies on marijuana to ease his pain. Some social drinking.

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