Why is brothers movie rated r

A woman asks a man if he had been present when a man had died, asking him if he had heard him or seen that he was alone the man denies seeing the man die. An older man tells another man that after he returned from serving time overseas he had a hard time controlling his temper and could no longer talk to his wife.

As an older man holds his head and cries silently, as a man tells him, "I would cut my throat to bring him back," trying to comfort him over the loss on his son. A man tells a young girl that her father had saved him from drowning in a river.

We hear a voiceover of a man saying that he might be better off dead, because he did not want to go back to his life. A man tells a woman that he had killed another man. A man tells a woman that he had gone to talk to a woman he had shot during an armed robbery, and that she shared with him that she had nightmares of the man coming back to shoot and kill her.

A woman remarks that people may be trained to shoot other people, but they are not trained to deal with the complications of death. A girl cries, and shouts at a man, "I wish you had stayed dead! A young girl says that a boy in her class would not hit girls, but that he would hit boys and goes on to say that it is okay to do this because he is a boy. A woman remarks to a man that she had not liked him before because he was "always drunk and fighting. A young girl falls on the ice while ice-skating, but is seen getting up unharmed.

A man playfully fakes falling to the ice while ice-skating with a woman and two girls. Two girls begin to squabble over a stuffed toy until a woman breaks up the fight. Log in here. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.

Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. It plays more like a traditional melodrama than the Susanne Bier film that inspired it, but Jim Sheridan's Brothers benefits from rock-solid performances by its three leads.

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Create your account Already have an account? Email Address. Frequent strong language: many uses of the words "f--k" and "s--t," as well as "damn," "hell," "a--hole," "goddamn," "ass," "oh my God," "dick," and more. Tommy gets drunk on a several occasions, and his father is shown drinking liquor a few times.

Tommy smokes cigarettes; in one scene, he and Grace share a joint. Parents need to know that this mature drama which stars Natalie Portman , Tobey Maguire , and Jake Gyllenhaal about how the horrors of war affect both a soldier and his grieving family has several disturbing scenes of war, torture, and even domestic disputes -- making it far too intense for tweens and even younger teens. The war sequences involve atrocities, near-suicide, and two startling killings that are chillingly realistic; strong language includes frequent use of words like "f--k," "s--t," "a--hole," and the like.

Sexuality isn't too graphic, but there are a few passionate kisses and one shot of an obviously undressed, quilt-covered couple in bed. Add your rating See all 8 parent reviews.

Add your rating See all 6 kid reviews. Marine captain Sam Cahill and Jake Gyllenhaal as his younger brother, Tommy, who has just gotten out of prison.

Sam is deployed to Afghanistan, where his combat team's helicopter crashes in enemy territory. He and a private survive, only to be captured and tortured for months. Since the Marines don't know there were any survivors, Sam's wife, Grace Natalie Portman , is notified that she's now a widow -- and that her two young girls are without a father. Tommy begins to spend a lot of time with Grace and her girls; one night, he and Grace share a grief- and alcohol-fueled kiss.

Meanwhile, Sam is forced to commit an unthinkable act of cruelty before he's eventually rescued by American soldiers. But the agony waiting back home may even be worse. At first, the three leads especially Portman all seem too much younger than their Danish counterparts, but with some obvious visual clues that Portman and Maguire's characters were high-school sweethearts, the characterizations start clicking into place, and each actor rises to the challenge.

Portman is luminous as a grief-stricken young "widow," and Gyllenhaal is surprisingly believable as the edgier bad-boy brother trying to make amends. But it's Maguire who has to anchor the emotional intensity, capturing Sam's months of torture and then his return to civilization mostly with bulging eyes, set jaw, and an acidly dropped curse word.

Portman's almost distracting loveliness is also taken into consideration, as it becomes the subject of small talk among Tommy's friends. There's more humor in this version as well, especially in a key scene in which Tommy and Grace bond over a joint and a U2 song. Overall, Sheridan's remake is beautifully acted and, unfortunately, quite timely. But everyone who sees it should, also watch Bier's subtle, harrowing original. Families can talk about how war both the Vietnam war and the war in Afghanistan affects the Cahills.

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