Wine Country

Parents need to know that Wine Country is a comedy about six longtime BFFs who take an extended weekend trip to Napa Valley to celebrate a 50th birthday. Amy Poehler's feature-film directing debut is a collaboration between six real longtime friends, all of whom worked together on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s. That results in a relaxed, anything-goes ensemble movie. Viewers can expect lots of raunchy conversation (e.g., "s--t my-pants," "69-ing," "shaving pubes"), profanity ("ass," "d--k," "f--k" in many forms, "son of a bitch"), and sexual references (e.g., "boning," "semen," a major vibrator display) that seem to have become an integral part of comedies like this one. And "wine country" isn't just a place that's famous for its bountiful red and white varieties. In this movie, for these six women, glasses are almost never empty; they're imbibing from first light to late night, with some inevitable, comic drunkenness. One character encourages ingesting MDMA ("Molly"), but no one takes her up on it. Sexual activity is referred to (including lesbian relationships), bare breasts are glimpsed in one scene, and a couple wakes up together in a morning-after moment. The movie is about grown-ups and for grown-ups; it will have little appeal for most teens.