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Moving On | 2022 | R | – 4.4.5
Why is “Moving On” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an explicit description of a rape, an implied sex scene, a couple of kissing scenes, discussions of infidelity and divorce, a death by being struck by a car, several threats of murder with a flare gun as well as a knife and smothering with a pillow, several arguments, and 7 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.
When a woman (Jane Fonda) leaves her home in Ohio to attend a funeral, she plans, with the help of a friend (Lily Tomlin), to also seek revenge on someone that wronged her many years before. Also with Malcolm McDowell, Catherine Dent, Sarah Burns and Richard Roundtree. Directed by Paul Weitz. [Running Time: 1:25]
Moving On SEX/NUDITY 4
– A woman wearing a robe (we see cleavage) climbs into a bed and tells a man to turn off the lights and asks him if he has a condom as he moves toward the bed (sex is implied). A man asks a woman to stay with him and she agrees; he asks if he can kiss her and they kiss passionately.
► A woman touches a man’s hand tenderly. A woman kisses a man on the cheek.
► A woman speaks at another woman’s wake and says that she and the deceased woman were lovers (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A woman says that another woman threatened to paint a part of the female anatomy on a fraternity house wall. A young boy asks a woman if they can do the “fashion show” again and she says that he looked really great in heels; she then gives him a pair of earrings. A man accuses a woman of being infatuated with his wife. A man asks his former wife what happened that caused them to break up; he asks if there was someone else and she tells him that something bad happened but she couldn’t talk about it.
► A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage in a few scenes.
Moving On VIOLENCE/GORE 4
– A woman describes a man touching her, tripping her, pinning her to the floor, and raping her while holding his hand on her throat and threatening her if she ever told anyone.
► A man walks into the path of a truck and is struck; we see him thrown and he lies motionless on the ground with blood on his face as the driver says he’s dead.
► A woman loads a flare gun and points it at a man, she threatens to burn a hole through him and he grabs his chest and collapses on the ground; the woman shoots the flare gun into the air to get help and we then see the man in the hospital. A woman puts a pillow over a man’s face in a hospital bed and another woman pulls her away; the two women argue. A woman takes a knife out of a block in a kitchen and carries it toward a man; she is interrupted along the way and eventually gives the knife to a server to return it to the kitchen. A woman shows another woman how to load a flare gun.
► A woman approaches a man at a memorial service and tells him, “I’m going to kill you.” A woman says that she is going to buy a gun and two women go to a gun shop; they do not buy a gun. A woman asks a man to borrow his gun and they negotiate a trade. A man tries to assign the blame of a “sexual transgression” to a woman when she confronts him about raping her.
► A woman speaks at another woman’s wake and says that she and the deceased woman were lovers; the deceased woman’s husband and daughter become upset and tell the woman to leave. A woman chases a young boy to a parking lot and she is confronted by his parents that yell at her and at the boy; a dog jumps out of their car and onto another woman knocking her down and breaking her arm (we see her in a sling later). A woman drives through a stop sign and other cars honk at her; she drives on the wrong side of the road and another car swerves to avoid hitting her and slams on the brakes when a man walks in front of the car. Two women pose together at a funeral and an attendee tells them that they are being inappropriate.
► Funeral scenes show people mourning in a church service, a wake and a cemetery. A woman says goodbye to her dog as she leaves him with her daughter and behaves as if she might not be coming back. A teen boy asks his grandmother, “Who died?” A woman says that her wife died. A woman says that she has been divorced twice.
► A woman claps her hands loudly to wake an attendant at an assisted-living unit; he wakes up with a start.
Moving On LANGUAGE 5
– About 7 F-words, 4 sexual references, 3 scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, 8 mild obscenities, 2 derogatory terms for gay, name-calling (bastard, Scarface, little loser, love birds, mistake, one of those women, selfish, love pterodactyls, delusional, villain, loca, crummy, narrow-minded Philistine, awful [derogatory term for gay deleted], crazy, knucklehead, garbage can, hair brained, misogynist, freak, pain in the butt), exclamations (darn it, hot dog, what gives, oh come on), 3 religious profanities (GD), 22 religious exclamations (e.g. God, Jesus, oh God, oh Christ no, Holy cow, oh my God, God’s honest truth). | profanity glossary |
Moving On SUBSTANCE USE
– A woman offers a man marijuana, cocaine and heroin and he declines. A woman drinks from a flask, people drink wine at a wake, people drink wine with a meal, a woman offers a man a shot of vodka and he declines, and a man and a woman drink brandy after a meal.
Moving On DISCUSSION TOPICS
– Death of a loved one, rape, friendship, divorce, alcoholism, life choices, aging, dementia, guilt, stress, racism, racism, death by car accident, courage, terminal illness, murder, following through.
Moving On MESSAGE
– Revenge can be difficult to deliver.
CAVEATS
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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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