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Great Expectations | 1998 | R | - 4.3.7
Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow star in this modern telling of the Charles Dickens classic.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Lots of sexual tension and some passionate kissing. A man fondles a woman's thighs and clothed crotch. A woman is shown sitting nude from behind, the side of a woman's breasts and a woman's bare buttocks are glimpsed briefly, and a woman is shown in her underwear. A woman is seen nude from behind apparently after having had sex and a woman is seen fully nude from a great distance, so nothing is really clearly seen. Sketches of a woman fully nude are seen several times.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - A man is stabbed and killed, and he is left very bloody. A man's very bloody ankle is seen. A man threatens to kill another man.
LANGUAGE 7 - A couple of dozen F-words, several scatological references, several mild obscenities and insults.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Pretending to be something you are not, unrequited love.
MESSAGE - Ambition must be tempered by humility.
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