The Man in the Moon (1991) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • A teen boy asks why a girl is hiding behind the bushes because she got nothing to hide.
  • In the opening scene, Reese Witherspoon's 13-year old character undresses and goes skinny dipping in a lake. Her bare butt can be seen as she jumps in, but it's an adult body double. A teen guy shows up, undresses to shorts and jumps in thinking she is wearing a swimsuit. Angry and embarrassed, she climbs out of the lake with her right arm covering her breasts, but you can tell she is wearing a thin strapless flesh colored bikini top over them to resemble nudity. She runs off through the woods. We see flashes of skin through the bushes, but nothing specific.
  • A boy strips down to his boxers.
  • a teenage boy forces a girl to kiss him and she's seen struggling away from him.
  • Two teenagers kiss in a few scenes.
  • Two characters have sexual intercourse in the woods. It lasts only a few seconds, it is not graphic (no thrusting), and it's shown from a distance, obscured by trees. No nudity.
  • A teenage boy is seen jumping into a pond naked, but the shot is from a long distance.

Violence & Gore

  • A girl gets beaten with a belt by her father. We do not see the belt making contact with her body.

Profanity

  • Some mild profanity. "Damn" is used as an expletive six times, "God damn" once, and "hell" twice.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A recently-bereaved woman attending a family cookout semi-surreptitiously spikes her glass of iced tea with a small bottle of hard liquor (her action is witnessed by only one other adult character in the movie).
  • An older teenage boy is seen smoking a cigarette in the foreground, as the camera pans the crowd scene at a dance,
  • Some adults smoke cigarettes, including Marie at the cookout.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The aftermath of the plowing machine incident may be disturbing to children
  • A pregnant woman trips and hits her head. She bleeds from the head and is rushed to the hospital.

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Violence & Gore

  • A 17-year-old boy falls from a tractor and, off camera, a plow runs over him. Later, obscured by trees, we see his mother holding him, his clothes and body drenched in blood.

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