Son of Rambow (2007) Poster

(2007)

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for some violence and reckless behavior
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Sex & Nudity

  • In a school yard scene, a male high school student lines up a dozen teenage girls and kisses each one for a prolonged period of time, rates them while a middle school youth records the disparaging comments on a clipboard, and the camera pans to another line of four girls already kissed and we see smudged lipstick on each one's mouth and face.
  • At a party, a teen boy and girl kiss briefly.
  • Many high school girls wear short skirts revealing black stockings underneath and high heels; the camera shows three close-ups of their legs.
  • At a party, several high school girls wear low-cut blouses that reveal cleavage.
  • A high school boy wears a red tank top made of partially transparent material throughout the film.
  • In a dream, a boy imagines growing muscles that make him look like Rambo; he sees scenes of Rambo in a low-cut tank top that shows muscular arms and his upper chest.
  • In a house, we see half a dozen life-sized nude statues, showing full frontal female nudity and male nudity except for covered genitals (shown four times).

Violence & Gore

  • A young boy is thrown out of a slow-moving jeep driven by a teenage boy and falls into a pit of oil and sludge and calls for help, but the driver runs away; the boy is pulled out as the building begins to crumble, rocks and cement fall and one boy is trapped under a large block of broken concrete and smaller rocks (we do not see any blood).
  • In a scene from Rambo a man is shown holding a large knife to a man's throat in a close-up and threatening to kill him, saying, "I swear to God I'll kill you."
  • In a scene from Rambo a man is told that he will need 200 body bags if his 200 men go up against Rambo.
  • Scenes from Rambo with machine gun fire and flames from bombs are shown.
  • We see a boy at home and his adult brother's friends knock him to the floor and punch and slap him briefly and the scene ends.
  • A boy throws a ball down a school hall and hits another boy in the face; the two boys scuffle briefly, knock over a fish bowl, and break it.
  • Two small groups of young people tackle one another (the fight ends quickly).
  • An ambulance with its siren blaring speeds down a highway, we see an injured boy on a gurney being wheeled into an emergency room, his face covered with an oxygen mask and a small bit of blood and dirt on the his face, and another young boy in the ER chair has his arm stitched to close a minor wound (we see a red line, dirt smudges and a little blood).
  • Two boys cut their palms with a penknife and join hands for several minutes to become blood brothers; they wear small bandages and one reveals a red scab to another youth and explains what becoming a blood brother means.
  • A boy practices punching and kicking in his kitchen while a church elder looks sternly through the backdoor window and returns later to take the boy away to an isolation unit of the church to re-indoctrinate him in The Brethren's beliefs, the boy runs, is grabbed by the elder and they argue.
  • A boy visits a schoolmate in the hospital: the patient is wearing casts on his left arm and his left leg and his eyes are swollen and there are four or five stitches over his right eye.
  • A boy stands against a fence and places a piggybank on his head while someone shoots it off with a crossbow (no one is hurt).
  • Two boys meet several times dressed as Rambo and an army colonel and act out scenes from "First Blood": one boy swings on vines, jumps out of a tree while using an umbrella as a parachute (he is not hurt), allows himself to be catapulted over a wall into a soft bag of dirt, and he jumps into a lake and pretends to drown.
  • Several young people film a mock ninja battle: one pretends to knock down three ninja warriors and another youth hits a scarecrow and the a teen with a tree branch, falls down, and two other boys argue.
  • We see a short film with several scenes cut in from "First Blood," including machine gun fire, bombs smoking and flaming, and Rambo running through the forest with guns and knives.
  • A kite attached to a stone dog statue sails into a school lab, knocks down a teacher and slams into a fire alarm button, sounding a loud alarm and when we see the teacher again he has stuck a pair of scissors up his nose (there is no blood).
  • In two dreams, a boy sees an evil scarecrow grab him by the throat, uproot itself, and run toward a village.
  • Cartoons drawn in a young boy's books show Rambo running through forests with a rifle, and two youth jumping through a forest, carrying rifles and knives.
  • A teacher leads a boy out of school and places him on detention while other youths throw paper wads at him and tell him to go home.
  • A boy waiting outside a headmaster's office tells another boy that he will take the blame because they will torture him and he is used to it; we later see the boy in a crowd of children, he groans, grimaces, and says his bottom hurts from torture (we know the boy was never called into the office).
  • A group of three male church elders goes to the house of a young girl, takes her record player, burns it on a pile of wood and leaves in her back yard as she watches sadly.
  • A high school aged boy puts a cigarette to his lips as he stands in a line of middle school students and all are holding hands; a boy at the end of the line sticks his finger onto a live electric wire in the schoolyard and the high school student's cigarette turns black and lights up (implying that the electricity traveled through all the kids).
  • Two boys dress in military clothing, complete with battle fatigues, army berets, and headbands in an attempt to simulate Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo film series.

Profanity

  • "Shit", "damn", "hell", "bastard" and "bitch" are used by an obviously negative character.
  • 5 uses of "shit". One is a little hard to hear, the other four very clear.
  • Lots of harsh name-calling throughout.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A 12-year-old boy smokes a cigarette five times in the film.
  • A high school exchange student smokes cigarettes throughout the film (sometimes in a school-yard.)
  • A high school aged boy puts a cigarette to his lips as he stands in a line of middle school students and all are holding hands.
  • A boy at the end of the line sticks his finger onto a live electric wire in the schoolyard and the high school student's cigarette turns black and lights up (implying that the electricity traveled through all the kids.)
  • A cartoon fish is drawn smoking a corncob pipe.
  • At a school party, students of middle school and high school ages mix Pop Rocks candy and carbonated beverages in order to feel extra strong fizzing in their mouths.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A scarecrow is trying to strangulate the boy unexpectedly.
  • Several frightening scenes from the original film Rambo is shown, including: threatening with knife, stitching bloody, open wound.

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