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Digging to China | 1998 | PG | - 2.2.0
An imaginative and somewhat alienated young girl befriends a retarded man who stops at her mother's hotel en route to a home for the mentally ill. With Kevin Bacon, Evan Rachel Wood, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cathy Moriarty and Marian Seldes. [1:38]
SEX/NUDITY 2 - A little sexual innuendo. A couple hugs and kisses each other. We see a woman pulling her shirt closed and a shirtless man lying in bed in the background.
VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - We learn a woman died and later see her overturned car in a ditch. A girl pushes a woman and a girl and woman slap each other. A woman punches a man repeatedly and the man pins her to the ground (we later see her arm in a sling).
LANGUAGE 0 - None.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Retardation, friendship, death of a parent, alienation, imagination.
MESSAGE - No one can fully understand a friendship except those involved.
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