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Far and Away | 1992 | PG-13 | - 3.3.1
Culled from the ancestral memories of director Ron Howard, the film tells the story of a poor Irish boy with a mean punch (Tom Cruise) and a rich Irish girl with a mean temper (Nicole Kidman), who arrive in Boston during the early 1800's and join the Oklahoma land rush.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - Scantily clothed dancers in a cabaret, and a brothel. One scene where Cruise dreams of he and Kidman making love, she is shown in her undergarments.
VIOLENCE/GORE 3 - A lot of fist fighting, with lots of slow motion bleeding. Cruise is stuck in the leg with a pitch fork, and Kidman is shot in the back, blood but no real gore.
LANGUAGE 1 - None to speak of apart from "bastard" and some strong Irish slang.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Cultures run by the upper-class, hard-working poor enslaved by the rich landowners.
MESSAGE - Don't give up on your dreams.
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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.
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