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Consenting Adults | 1992 | R | - 5.5.5
Rebecca Miller and Kevin Spacey are the vibrant couple who move next door to boring Kevin Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and seduce them into a little wife-swapping, which leads to murder, which leads to insurance fraud, which leads to a shootout.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A man and woman are shown nude making love, but they are in the dark so most of what we see is shadowed. Rebecca Miller is shown taking a bath, but no nudity is evident. However, the film's main theme is infidelity and wife-swapping.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A man is hit by a car, flies up, breaks the windshield and falls to the ground. A woman is found dead in a pool of blood after apparently having been beaten with a baseball bat. Another woman is found after having been murdered in the same manner. A man is batted over the head with a baseball bat and apparently killed: we see him draped over a bed, lying in a pool of blood.
LANGUAGE 5 - The F-word is uttered a few times.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Insurance fraud, infidelity, wife swapping.
MESSAGE - Money doesn't necessarily make you happy, especially if the way you get it isn't honest. You can't live a real life without taking a risk; or can you? Neighbors can be problematic.
CAVEATS
Be aware that while we do our best to avoid spoilers it is impossible to disguise all details and some may reveal crucial plot elements.
We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits.
Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review.
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