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Shooting Fish | 1997 | PG | - 3.2.3
In this comedy, Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend are orphans-turned-harmless-con-artists who convince Kate Beckinsale to help them fleece the rich to support a good cause -- themselves. Also with Nickolas Grace, Claire Cox, Ralph Ineson and Dominic Mafham.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - Sexual innuendo. One kiss. We see several blow-up dolls (their "breasts" are visible).
VIOLENCE/GORE 2 - A man is slapped, another is punched and another is knocked down. One playful scuffle. A man jumps from a balcony and lands on someone (neither is injured). We see a man sitting on a toilet; he's obviously trying to have a bowel movement.
LANGUAGE 3 - One slang anatomical reference, many scatological references and several mild obscenities and insults.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Con artistry, business scams, deception, being an orphan, falling in love.
MESSAGE - Others can con you just as easily as you conned them.
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