Saved!

Parents need to know that Saved! is a 2004 satirical comedy in which Jena Malone plays a Christian girl attending a fundamentalist high school whose life is turned upside down when she becomes pregnant. While the movie satirizes the hypocrisy of Christians too rigidly dogmatic to truly apply Christian ideals of love and charity when faced with challenging circumstances, families who are on the more conservative side of the Christian religious spectrum are likely to find some of the dark humor to be bordering on sacrilegious. However, the movie's deeper message -- exploring the idea of "What would Jesus do?" when faced with contemporary issues -- is a worthy topic of discussion among families, faith-based or not. In terms of content, two of the lead characters have sex, resulting in teen pregnancy. The lead female character has sex with her boyfriend after he tells her that he's gay; she believes that Jesus has told her to have sex with him as a way to "de-gay" him. In one scene, a row of bouncing parked cars filled with teen couples is shown from the outside while "Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa plays. After looking up "gay" on an internet search engine, the lead character is taken to a provocatively named gay pornographic website with images of leather-clad men. A closeted gay teen boy is shown on the verge of masturbating in his bedroom with a copy of a gay pornographic magazine. The "bad girl" character of the movie smokes cigarettes; cigarettes are a big part of her rebellious image. This same character is also shown drunk at the mall, and also makes a sexual reference to her "p---y" while pretending to speak in tongues in the school auditorium. There's some profanity, including "f--k" (used once), and some homosexual slurs are used. "Retarded" is used. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.