Summer Catch

Frequent sexual innuendo. Lead character tries to sleep on the pitcher's mound for the night before the first practice, and is visited by his casual girlfriend, who puts a beer bottle between her legs and pours it on him to wake him up; she later straddles him, and the next scene shows the couple waking up next to each other in broad daylight. The lead character's girlfriend wakes up before he does, and takes all of his clothes, and leaves him with her thong underwear -- he wears that in the locker room, male buttocks exposed. The out-of-town players stay as guests in different houses, and one of the players stays with an older woman who has a reputation for sleeping with players, with some innuendo concerning grapes and a cucumber. Frequent sexual innuendo ("mow her lawn," etc.) from the catcher of the team. Since the movie is set in Cape Cod, there is a STD joke concerning "crabs." Players make fun of a teammate for sleeping with a plus-sized woman; he's shown in bed reading her a poem about her body before she gets into bed with him, dressed in lingerie. Lots of implied hooking up between players and local women. Passionate kissing.

Profanity throughout, including "f--k." Also: "bulls--t," "s--t," "goddamn," "crap," "pissing," "wiseass."

Drinking throughout. Characters get drunk in the local bar (beer and cocktails), drink at cocktail parties, drink beer at the ballpark in the middle of the night, binge drink beer at the beach. Lead character shown hungover. Lead character's dad shown drunk as he berates him for how he pitched during the game earlier that day. One of the characters smokes cigarettes; cigarette smoking in the bar.

Parents need to know that Summer Catch is a 2001 romantic comedy in which Freddie Prinze, Jr. plays a young pitcher with one last chance to find success in baseball. There's quite a bit of sexual content in the form of innuendo, implied situations, and double entendre. The baseball players stay in the homes of locals; one is a woman known for sleeping with her guests -- with implications as to how she uses grapes and cucumbers in bed. It's implied that the lead character has sex with his girlfriend on the pitcher's mound the night before the first team practice; they wake up surrounded by empty beer bottles and the lead character's clothes are gone and he's forced to show up to practice wearing the only article of clothing that was still there -- a pair of thong panties. Brief nudity -- male buttocks. One of the players is dating a "plus-sized' woman, and his teammates make fun of him in a way that comes across as fat-shaming. This player, near the end of the movie, stands on a chair in the bar where they hang out and announces his love for "curvy, voluptuous" women, and receives applause from the patrons. There's also a fair amount of drinking -- characters are shown drinking in bars, at parties, at the beach, at ballgames. Lead character shown hungover in one scene. Cigarette smoking. Occasional profanity, including "f--k." Product placement, particularly of Sam Adams beer.

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