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SON-IN-LAW

What You Need To Know:

Clean-cut and traditional Rebecca Warner (Carla Gugino) leaves her South Dakota home for college in southern California only to return for Thanksgiving as a grunge-queen with orange hair and a potential party-boy boyfriend named Crawl (Pauly Shore), in the mostly offensive and minimally humorous movie SON-IN-LAW. This film could be retitled as GUESS WHO'S COMING TO THANKSGIVING DINNER VIA AN MTV BEACH PARTY.

Content:

(H, LLL, V, S, NN, A, Ho, M) Humanism; 22 obscenities, 3 profanities, & constant use of crude, sexual slang & sexual innuendo; slapstick violence; promiscuity treated as normal & numerous references to various sex acts & private body parts; rear male nudity & nearly nude female mud wrestling; alcohol abuse; lesbian relationship, lesbian kissing & man dressed in drag; and, man falls into dung heap & is urinated upon by a cow.

More Detail:

Clean-cut Rebecca Warner (Carla Gugino) leaves her South Dakota home for college in southern California only to return for Thanksgiving as a grunge-queen with orange hair and a potential party-boy boyfriend named Crawl (Pauly Shore), in the mostly offensive and minimally humorous movie SON-IN-LAW (sort of a GUESS WHO’S COMING TO THANKSGIVING DINNER VIA AN MTV BEACH PARTY). Crawl befriends Rebecca when home-sickness develops. Of course, the constant dorm-partying and a lesbian roommate have absolutely nothing to do with her desire to dump school and go back home. However, Crawl talks her out of leaving, takes her under his wing and transforms her into a Cali-babe, complete with new lingo and a cute tattoo.

Unfortunately, what little humor exists is saturated with constant sexual innuendo and references to male and female anatomical attributes. A hedonistic lifestyle is portrayed as favorable to that of a small, mid-western town where the residents are all “in-breeders.” The filming is technically decent, and the acting is adequate. However, with only about 90 seconds of laughable humor out of 92 minutes of film, SON-IN LAW succeeds only in sending the message that to live is to party, to be different is to be offensive, to be free is to be immoral, and women exist solely as objects of sexual interest for men.

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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.