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Krippendorf's Tribe | 1998 | PG-13 | - 4.2.3

A anthropologist's (Richard Dreyfuss) efforts to convince his peers he has discovered a new tribe of Aborigines gets him and his children into some strange goings-on.

SEX/NUDITY 4 - People are shown in native garb (loin cloths, etc.), several women are shown in cleavage revealing dresses and we see a woman's bra and cleavage. Sexual innuendo and discussions of primitive mating rituals. Discussions of a primitive circumcision ritual with an axe being swung at a boy's crotch. A child's drawing of a man's genitals. It is implied that a woman grabs a man's clothed crotch. A couple is shown in bed presumably after having had sex and a man grabs a woman's clothed breast. A man thrusts his pelvis at another man. A man is "inspired" when he sees a woman in native garb, but nothing happens.

VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - A monkey flatulates and a pig urinates on a person. A man eats a grub. A woman slaps a man in the face and a woman pushes on a man's primitive crotch cover; he reacts as if he's been hit.

LANGUAGE 3 - Several scatological and anatomical references, discussions of primitive mating rituals, and several mild obscentities.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Dysfunctional families, lying, deception, primitive cultures, academia.

MESSAGE - Sometimes you can cheat and actually get away with it.

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