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Nell | 1994 | PG-13 | - 5.2.5
Jodie Foster stars as a woman who has grown up in the woods without any form of human contact except for her stroke-victim mother. Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson co-star.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - One passionate kiss between Richardson and Neeson. Neeson is shown evidently naked -- no private areas are visible, though -- and Richardson is shown in a see-through wet T-shirt and underpants. There are quick glimpses of Foster's breasts and buttocks -- she dives off a rock into a lake, and lifts her dress up in a bar. Some sexual innuendo and taunting.
VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - Foster kicks and screams at Neeson. A dead woman and a skeleton are shown. Foster runs into a glass wall and gets a bloody lip.
LANGUAGE 5 - One F-word, one scatological term and a few mild obscenities.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Isolation and loneliness, abandonment, professionalism vs. listening to your heart.
MESSAGE - You have to let each person live their own life -- even if it is unconventional.
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