Pride

Jim's presence at an all-white swim meet sparks a near riot. He punches a white police officer. Jim nearly drowns the local drug dealer after he breaks into the community center, commits acts of vandalism, and is caught urinating into the swimming pool. A white competitor in a swim meet kicks one of the African American competitors in the head as hard as he can in a blatant foul that's overlooked by the officials. After accidentally breaking the portable radio belonging to the neighborhood pimp and drug dealer, one of the boys on the swim team is nearly forced to make amends for it by, it's implied, using a gun to commit a violent act.

Some flirting and hand-holding and one kiss. The neighborhood pimp offers Jim a date with one of his ladies, but he declines. The boys on the team flirt and holler at girls.

Occasional profanity, including racial slurs like the "N" word and "boy" as well as "Negro." "Retarded" used as an insult. Gay slurs "sister boys" and "fruitcake" used. Middle finger gesture. "Bulls--t," "s--t," "bitch," "ass," "hell," and "suck." A joke made about condom use.

There's an obvious drug dealer and pimp who uses local teens to make his deliveries. Cigarette smoking. Some drinking.

Parents need to know that Pride is a 2007 movie based on the true story of how an African American coach and teens formed a championship swim team and saved an inner-city rec center slated for destruction. This fact-based drama deals with racism head-on from its very first scene, in which Jim Ellis is the only African American at a swim meet in 1960s North Carolina. A scuffle breaks out, and he ends up striking a white cop. He encounters bigotry again in the '70s when he ends up coaching an all-black swim team: The team's wealthier white competitors sabotage and ridicule the black swimmers at meets. But the drama also shows Jim's team making jokes about their white rivals and goofing off instead of taking competition seriously. Besides the opening brawl, there's another altercation in a pool, when Jim nearly drowns the local drug dealer after he finds him vandalizing the rec center and urinating in the swimming pool. This drug dealer is also shown offering a prostitute to one of the swimmers and attempts to get one of the other swimmers to rejoin his gang. Ellis and the team use swimming as a way to find self-worth and learn lessons in determination, resilience, and persistence. Occasional profanity, including racist terms like the "N" word and "boy," as well as the dated term "Negro." "Retarded" is used as an insult to one of the swimmers who has a learning disability. Homophobic slurs like "sister boys" and "fruitcake" are also used. Other profanity includes "bulls--t," "s--t," "bitch," "ass," "hell," and "suck." The movie shows cigarette smoking and some drinking.

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