• 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?

  3.0

• Common Sense says

  Sometimes-edgy shorts collection captures Big Apple’s verve.

Why We Rated This for Ages 16–18

The good stuff

• Messages:

  The movie presents New York City as a place for both connections and disconnections. Although it has a reputation as a cold and forbidding place, Manhattan is portrayed as actually quite warm and embracing -- if you catch it in the right mood. The movie has a complex take on issues like relationships and love.

What to watch out for

• Role models :

  The wide range of characters runs a large gamut of behavior. You'll find "good" girls and "bad" guys (a pickpocket, for one), "good" guys and "bad" girls (a prostitute, for example), and everything in between.
• Violence:

  A man jumps out of a window; his body is briefly shown lying bloody on the street below. Another man roughs up a pickpocket. People yell at each other.
• Sex:

  A stranger approaches a woman and tells her in fairly graphic detail what he’d do to her if she went home with him. Other scenes show a man and a woman separately reliving their hook-up; there are brief flashes of nudity, but nothing too graphic. Teens have sex in Central Park (no nudity, but the act is clearly suggested -- for example, the girl asks the boy to remove her underwear).
• Language:

  Some use of words like “s--t,” “whore,” and “f--k.”
• Consumerism:

  iPhone logo, Apple laptop.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  A fair amount of smoking in some vignettes; social drinking.

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