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A Tourist’s Guide to Love | 2023 | TV-PG | – 3.1.2
Why is “A Tourist’s Guide to Love” rated TV-PG? The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board rating indicates that “this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, references to relationships, a few arguments, and some mild language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.
While a travel agent (Rachael Leigh Cook) and her guide (Scott Ly) investigate Vietnam tourism, they also find excitement and love. Also with Missi Pyle, Ben Feldman, Quinn Truc Tran, Nondumiso Tembe and Andrew Barth Feldman. Directed by Steven K. Tsuchida. A few lines are spoken in a Vietnamese language without translation and several others are translated. [Running Time: 1:34]
A Tourist’s Guide to Love SEX/NUDITY 3
– A man and a woman kiss for several seconds. A woman travels across a city to find a man before he leaves town; she stops him and they profess their love for each other before kissing for several seconds. A man and a woman kiss briefly in three scenes.
► A woman is heartbroken when her live-in boyfriend moves across the country and puts their relationship on hold; she cries and slams the door in his face as he leaves. A woman’s ex-boyfriend surprises her when he arrives in Vietnam to see her, and she and her new love interest look depressed. A woman says she has been married nine times.
► A man walks out of the ocean in slow motion in swim trunks (we see his bare chest, abdomen and legs). Women wear low-cut tops that reveal cleavage and a few teen girls wear crop tops that reveal abdomens. Women wear short shorts.
A Tourist’s Guide to Love VIOLENCE/GORE 1
– A woman is almost run over by a fast bicycle and she jumps back and gasps. Many motor scooters surround a car and later a pedestrian. A man and a woman ride in a boat and fall into the water, unharmed.
► Two men sit on either side of a woman they want to date; the woman’s estranged boyfriend says that the woman’s travel company bought the new boyfriend’s company and the new boyfriend and the woman argue for several seconds before he leaves. A man and a woman argue about tourist sights and what to visit. Two women and a teen girl argue twice. A man and a woman argue for several seconds and he shouts at her. A reference is made to vomit (no one vomits).
► A woman smells a durian fruit and gasps, gags, and coughs for several seconds.
A Tourist’s Guide to Love LANGUAGE 2
– 1 scatological term, 1 mild obscenity, name-calling (crazy, weird, idiot, ding-dong, prude, booze cruise, suck-up, boho), exclamations (hey, wow, whoa, whoo, whoo-hoo), 8 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, my God I miss cigarettes). | profanity glossary |
A Tourist’s Guide to Love SUBSTANCE USE
– A man pours two glasses of red wine and he and a woman drink from them, several people in a bar drink beer as well as cocktails and wine, a woman holds a glass of wine at home (we do not see her drink), a woman on a beach sips a tall cocktail, several men and women hold beer bottles at a party and do not drink, and a woman says she and a man went to a paint and sip wine party (we do not see it). A woman holds a pencil like a cigarette and says she misses smoking.
A Tourist’s Guide to Love DISCUSSION TOPICS
– Cultural differences, relationships, friendship, love, heartbreak, emotional healing, love triangles, LGBTQA+ families, Tet Vietnamese New Year/renewal, accuracies and inaccuracies of “Type A” and “Type B” personalities, trying new things.
A Tourist’s Guide to Love MESSAGE
– Unforeseen love occurs in unlikely places while learning to slow down and enjoy life.
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