• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 17, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 17.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  Penelope Cruz shines in mother-daughter tale.

Why We Rated This

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  The story concerns the murders of unfaithful or otherwise wayward men; the female characters support one another.
• Violence:

  Violent death is a recurrent theme: At the film's start, widows tend their husbands' gravestones and discuss one man's death by burning in a fire; a girl murders the man she thinks is her father (off screen, but bloody body and floor are explicit); Raimunda spends the rest of the film trying to dispose of the body; her mother appears as a ghost; a friend dies of cancer; repeated discussions of incest/rape.
• Sex:

  Frequent shots of voluptuous women (especially Cruz) in tight skirts, showing cleavage; a neighbor is a prostitute; Paco looks at his daughter's crotch when she sits in a chair in their living room; several references to incest; shot of daughter from Pedro's peeping point of view shows the side of her bare breast; girl hears a man moaning as he masturbates (one arm movement visible, but mostly off screen).
• Language:

  One use of "f--k," plus some other language ("s--t," "ass," "hall," "p--sy"), all in subtitles.
• Consumerism:

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

  Agustina grows and smokes marijuana (it alleviates her pain from cancer); she rolls a joint on screen and offers pot to her guests); various characters drink beer, wine, and other drinks in social settings; a couple of background characters smoke cigarettes.

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