I just found out about a site called Kids-In-Mind.  This site gives parents the skinny on what’s going on in a movie.  Each movie receives a rating of 1-10 in the areas of sex, violence, and profanity.  Very detailed information is given, including which profane words were used, what the actors were wearing, if there is any name-calling, and more.  I was pretty impressed with the specifics for the reviews.

Here is a snippet from the review for “Miss Potter”:

SEX/NUDITY 2 – A man and a woman kiss, a man and a woman dance together, and a man touches a woman’s hand tenderly.
► Women wear low-cut dresses at a party.
► A man and a woman are left alone in her room when their chaperone falls asleep. A woman talks about her daughter not being able to attract a man to marry.

The purpose of Kids-In-Mind is to provide adults with complete information about a movie’s content so that they can decide, based upon their own value system, whether or not they want to see the movie or show it to their children. 

I give Kids-In-Mind a thumbs up!  Another good site for movie and music reviews is Plugged In Online.  Both sites are offered for free.  For as little as $12/year you can subscribe to Kids-In-Mind and receive advance reviews without the ads.

Thanks to Goody blog for the tip!

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