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As Good As It Gets | 1997 | PG-13 | - 3.6.6
A cold-hearted cynic (Jack Nicholson) learns to warm up, with a little help from a lonely waitress (Helen Hunt) and a battered gay neighbor (Greg Kinnear).
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A woman is shown from behind wearing only a towel around her waist. Her breasts are briefly glimpsed from the side. Several nude drawings of a woman are shown. As a male street hustler gets undressed, a glimpse of his bare backside is shown.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - There is an intense scene in which a gay man is brutally beaten by three thugs. He is later shown with severe facial scars, a swollen-shut eye and bruises, and spends the rest of the film in a cast, briefly confined to a wheelchair, and then walking on crutches. A man shoves a little dog down a garbage chute.
LANGUAGE 6 - A couple of F-words, several scatological references, several anatomical references, several racial and sexual slurs, several mild obscenities.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Mental illness (Obsessive-Compulsive disorder), bigotry, homosexuality, prostitution.
MESSAGE - Learn to love and others will love you in return.
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