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Anaconda | 1997 | PG-13 | – 4.8.5
A documentary film crew (Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Eric Stoltz) is making their way through the Amazon jungle, tries to help a stranded hunter (Jon Voight ), whose obsessed with catching a giant Anaconda. The tables are turned when the giant snake becomes the hunter. Also with Jonathan Hyde, Owen Wilson, Vincent Castellanos and Kari Wuhrer. Direced by Dwight H. Little. [1:29].

SEX/NUDITY 4 – A couple make-out and the man pulls the woman’s shirt down exposing the top of her breast, which he then caresses. Native people sport loincloths and the women’s bare breasts are shown. Several times we can vaguely see women’s nipples through nightshirts and tank tops. Kissing and sexual innuendo.

VIOLENCE/GORE 8 – Many scenes of the snake chasing people. The snake kills a panther and leaves the panther’s eyeball lying on the ground. A tracheotomy is done on a man using a knife; there’s some blood and later a man twists his finger in the tracheotomy hole (some blood gushes out). As the snake eats a victim we see the inside of the snake from the victim’s perspective. The snake chews on a corpse’s neck (some blood). A man puts a pick through the snake’s head (some blood).The snake spits up a dead monkey and a slightly chewed-up man. The snake kills some people by breaking necks and crunching bones; there’s some blood (neck, eyes, mouth). The snake drags a victim through the water and there is blood on his face. A monkey paw drips blood into a bucket. A couple of people are strangled. The outline of a man’s face is seen through the snake’s belly after he’s been eaten. A snake bites a man’s finger. Animals are shot and injured or killed, and one catches on fire. A man is stabbed in the leg with a knife. A few fistfights and a couple of slaps. A few corpses are seen. A couple of explosions.

LANGUAGE 5 – One F-word, a profane hand gesture, a few anatomical references, some mild obscenities and a few scatological references.

DISCUSSION TOPICS – Snakes, the jungle, nature, discovery.

MESSAGE – Nature can be deadly.

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