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NOTHING TO LOSE

“Nothing To Gain”

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) has nothing to lose when he discovers that all he cherishes has slipped through his fingers. His beautiful and loving wife and his supportive boss are having an affair. Sullenly unresponsive to a small-time thief’s (Martin Lawrence’s) robbery attempt, he abducts the would-be thief, and both men head off to a series of misadventures. When they arrive home, Nick plans and takes revenge on his philandering boss, who stores his assets in a safe, and Nick knows the combination. Together, Nick and T. Paul rob and vandalize the office. Regrettably, two thugs from the desert have followed them to the scene of their theft. The movie’s climax comes as they engage in a contest of wills over who gets to keep the loot

The newest buddy comedy, NOTHING TO LOSE may not lose its audience, but it definitely loses its focus. Trying to comment on society’s standards of success, it comes across as banal and profane comedy without redeeming values. T. Paul’s gutter mouth all but obscures the film’s passionate statement about how society misjudges the poor and the unemployed. Nick and T. Paul make an entertaining duo and inject humor into their misadventures. NOTHING TO LOSE is a mediocre movie containing foul language, excessive violence and sexual situations.

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(P, LLL,VV, SS, NN, A, D, M) Pagan, materialistic worldview of a yuppie who loses all his worldly goods; 76 obscenities, 3 profanities & verbal abuse; great violence including gunplay, robberies, beatings, destruction of property, car crashes, & fist fighting; 2 instances of implied sex; Partial female nudity in a sexual context & female strippers; alcohol; smoking & drugs; and, revenge

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Nick Beam (Tim Robbins) has nothing to lose when he discovers that all he cherishes has slipped through his fingers. His beautiful and loving wife and his supportive boss are having an affair. Sullenly unresponsive to a small-time thief’s (Martin Lawrence’s) robbery attempt, he abducts the would-be thief, and both men head off to a series of misadventures. When they arrive home, Nick plans and takes revenge on his philandering boss, who stores his assets in a safe, and Nick knows the combination. Together, Nick and T. Paul rob and vandalize the office. Regrettably, two thugs from the desert have followed them to the scene of their theft. The movie’s climax comes as they engage in a contest of wills over who gets to keep the loot
The newest buddy comedy, NOTHING TO LOSE may not lose its audience, but it definitely loses its focus. Trying to comment on society’s standards of success, it comes across as banal and profane comedy without redeeming values. T. Paul’s gutter mouth all but obscures the film’s passionate statement about how society misjudges the poor and the unemployed. Nick and T. Paul make an entertaining duo and inject humor into their misadventures. NOTHING TO LOSE is a mediocre movie containing foul language, excessive violence and sexual situations.