Mojo

A handgun is fired in one scene, but only into the floor, and one of the toughs in service to the rich kids has a switchblade that he flashes at Dylan, the young investigator. All the serious harm occurs off scene, when a teen is murdered by poison.

There's no explicit sex in the story, and no more talk about sex than is common when teens gab among themselves. But some of the antics at a private teen club, including a performance by an unusually exotic dancer, show high schoolers at the edge of depravity. Dylan, the young investigator, is led to believe that the father of one of the teen characters is a sexual predator. The rumor proves false.

Four-letter words are toyed with but not used, as when a local charity is called by its acronym FOKC. The strongest epithet is "assh--e," also rendered in Spanish, "pen---o."

Champagne and select varieties of pot figure largely among the rich Oklahoma City kids whose world Dylan, a young investigator, penetrates, and ultimately rejects. One of the kids declares it isn't true that he and his friends have more money than they know what to do with. "We know what to do with it." Indulgence is frankly glamorized.

Parents need to know that Mojo is the story of an Oklahoma City high school journalist determined to solve a murder mystery after he discovers a classmate's dead body and the cops dismiss the death as a drug overdose. At the heart of the mystery is Gangland, a decadent private club run by two rich teenagers that's dehumanizing as well as alluring. The Gangland crowd freely consume alcohol and pot, and in one scene, there's a performance by an exotic dancer. The only serious violence happens off scene, when a teen is murdered by poison, except for a gunshot fired into the floor and the flashing of a switchblade. There's some talk of sex and a sexual predator, and the strongest language is "assh--e."