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SHAKING THE TREE

What You Need To Know:

SHAKING THE TREE deals with the lives of four buddies, Barry, Michael, Duke, and Sully, ten years after high school. The film skillfully mixes acting performances by a cast of unknowns, with an occasional outstanding vignette, complete with a surprisingly uplifting ending. Unfortunately, these assets are overshadowed by nonstop cursing and sexual innuendo.

Content:

(LLL, V, S, B) 75 obscenities and 20 profanities, a brief fistfight, offhanded references to sex and implied sexual immortality, gambling (negatively portrayed), and guzzling alcohol and smoking overshadow two moral insights that: sexual escapades prior to marriage lead to serious problems, and there is a difference between condoning disruptive behavior and rescuing a friend from death.

More Detail:

SHAKING THE TREE deals with the lives of four buddies, Barry, Michael, Duke, and Sully, ten years after high school. The story begins in 1989. Barry is an up and coming stock broker whose engagement slides onto thin ice because of his fiance’s sexual history. Michael is a college teaching assistant who can’t come to grips with impending parenthood, and so he edges toward an affair with a willing coed. Meanwhile, Duke tends bar with equal measures of skill and regret, as his promising boxing career was cut short by an eye injury. Lastly, Sully is an immature rich kid who careens through life SHAKING THE TREE, leaving the mess behind for others to clean up.

Filmed on a shoestring budget, SHAKING THE TREE effectively interweaves the various story lines. It emphasizes that sexual escapades prior to marriage lead to serious problems. Also demonstrated is the difference between condoning disruptive behavior and rescuing a friend from the brink of death. Furthermore, the value of marital fidelity and parenthood is upheld. Regrettably, these valuable messages are diluted by a “language barrier” of causal obscenity and the sexual exploits of one character.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.