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Summary: A behind-the-scenes look into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of dog shows through the eyes of a group of ruthless dog owners.
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Genre: Comedy
Director:
Christopher Guest
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG-13
Production: Castle Rock Entertainment
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,715,392
International: $ 2,074,164
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| MPAA Certification | No MPAA rating found yet. Add Family Friendly Rating? |
IMDb Ratinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218839/parentalguidelast updated: 2024-10-25Update data | |
Commonsensemedia Ratinghttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/best-in-showlast updated: 2024-10-25Update data | |
| Message | The characters in the movie do love and treat their animals well, sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. |
| Role model | Many of the characters are kindly to their animals and to each other and win the big competition by fair, not foul, means. But some characters say cruel things to each other, such as the dad who threatens to gouge out his kid's eyes and calls him a "freak." |
| Violence | Almost nonexistent save for a reference to a long-ago parent's suicide, and one scene where a wound-too-tight dad tries to get his son down from a roof by threatening him with violence: "I'll punch you in the eyes until they're jelly!" he shrieks. There is also some graphic talk about said father's job, which is trying to keep suicides from jumping (usually unsuccessfully). |
| Sex | There is a little bit of sex talk, mostly to one character depicted as having been promiscuous in the past, but nothing too explicit. There is a passionate same-sex kiss and some insults leveled at gay people, as when one character refers to another (gay) character as "prancing around." |
| Language | A few curses: "I s--t you not." There are also several references to "bitch" but usually referring to a female dog |
| Drugs | There is a party where guests hold drinks but no one acts drunk. |
Dove Ratinghttps://dove.org/review/3091-best-in-show/ | |
| Faith | None |
| Sex | Two men kiss briefly; two women kiss passionately; it is implied that one woman has been sexually promiscuous in her past; the discourse coming from the gay couple is peppered with references to homosexuality; three other sexually-based conversations. |
| Language | GD-1; S-2; A-1. |
| Violence | None |
| Drugs | None |
| Nudity | Picture of a gay man in a strange outfit, baring his bare bottom. |
| Other | None |
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