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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Melissa has phone conversations with her patients about reproduction. Says "...she did not marry your penis."

A reference to one of the characters being naked in front of a tornado

A man is seen with his shirt unbuttoned, bare chest is visible through the open shirt.

Jo is briefly shown taking a shower, but nothing explicit can be seen.

Jo and Bill are seen making out right after surviving the final tornado in the movie.

Violence & Gore

Non-extreme violence; characters get sucked into tornadoes, car wrecks, paraphanilia flying around hitting people due to extreme wind.

A young girls father is sucked into a tornado.

A car is sucked into a tornado and explodes while people are in the car.

A old lady's house has been blown down by a twister. She is trapped underneath debris and has some bloody cuts and gashes.

A SUV is hit by a flying tree coming directly towards it, brutally killing the passengers and then is sucked into the tornado and blows up.

A man is hiding in a shelter when a hose and sharp blades are flying around and his head is cut and a line of blood on his head is shown

Profanity

Strong language throughout

The "F" word does appear once, said by Jo in the beginning.

The "S" word is said a few times.

Numerous uses of religious terms, d-mn, SOB

Mention of Jack Daniels during a story.

All scenes involving twisters are intense due to character's proximity to twisters.

Opening scene were dad is trying to save his family is very intense as he shouts and screams trying to hold the door closed and it opens and he is sucked out into the twister, this scene may frighten young viewers.

A group of researchers are driving through a field and onto a road when another large group of cars are cut off by them, it is out of nowhere so it may startle you.

A few scenes from the movie "The Shining" are shown, which are intense and very scary clips.

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Rated PG-13 for intense depiction of very bad weather.


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