Chaos Theory
Headline: ** Archetypal American Hilarity **
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -2
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: V
Sex: S
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: April 11, 2008
TIME: 87 minutes
STARRING: Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer, Stuart Townsend, Sarah Chalke, and Mike Erwin
DIRECTOR: Marcos Siega
PRODUCERS: Frederic Golchan and Erica Westheimer
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Fred Westheimer
WRITER: Daniel Taplitz
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Castle Rock/Warner Bros.
CONTENT: (BB, Pa, LLL, V, S, N, AA, D, M) Strong moral worldview about a family man who goes crazy after learning some disturbing news but returns to his senses, with an excellent message at the end about love being a choice that we make, but with some immoral pagan content; 23 obscenities, three strong profanities and five light exclamatory profanities; light violence includes fighting, man threatens another man with shotgun and man accidentally shoots hole in boat and has to swim; sexual content includes woman takes off underwear to seduce man and jumps on top of him to kiss him but he escapes out from under her and implied premarital sex; brief upper male nudity in one scene; alcohol use and drunkenness; brief smoking; and, older man tricks younger man.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: CHAOS THEORY is an often hilarious movie about a family man who goes crazy after his wife wrongly thinks he got another woman pregnant and he learns that he's not the biological father of their daughter. CHAOS THEORY is a delightful comedy of errors with some very funny and ultimately heartwarming moments extolling marriage and family, but it requires caution because of a significant number of obscenities and brief sexual connotations.
IN BRIEF:
CHAOS THEORY is an often hilarious movie about a family man who goes crazy after learning some disturbing news. Ryan Reynolds plays Frank Allen, an efficiency expert who keeps a tight schedule. When his daughter's fiancé has cold feet, Frank forces the boy to hear the story of Frank's relationship with his wife. Frank tells him about the time when Susan left Frank, taking their daughter with her, when she thought Frank had gotten another woman pregnant. To prove his faithfulness, Frank gets a DNA test, where he learns that he is unable to have children. Shocked to learn that he is not the biological father of their daughter throws Frank into a tizzy.
CHAOS THEORY is a delightful comedy of errors with some hilarious and very heartwarming moments. Best of all, the movie ultimately extols marriage, a more proper view of love, and family. The content requires caution, however, because of significant foul language and a seduction scene where a woman strips to her underwear to try to seduce the married protagonist. She fails because the protagonist loves his wife, but viewers won't know that until the scene ends.
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