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The Wendell Baker Story
Summary: Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: PG-13
Distributor: Shout! Factory
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 8,000,000
Domestic: $ 127,414
International: $ 25,755
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| Message | Wendell is almost always up to no good (he forges Texas driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, etc.), is sometimes condescending to his girlfriend, and can't seem to stay legit (he also faked an insurance claim). A character is thought to have molested a child. Disrespectful treatment of the elderly (including faking their deaths and stealing their Medicare checks). |
| Violence | The corrupt manager of a "retirement hotel" has his henchmen rough up residents who don't "cooperate" and has them hauled away in a taxi to a mysterious place. There's literally a pistol-packing mama (or, to be precise, a shotgun-toting one) who's trigger-happy. |
| Sex | No one actually has sex, but there's plenty of talk about it. Men at the retirement home ask Wendell if he can get them "laid." They also proposition two young women by talking about how they'd make them reach orgasm. Two male nurses strip down to their bare behinds (which aren't really seen) and attempt to seduce two underage girls. A male nurse has a retiree sit on his lap and then flirts with her. Wendell and his girlfriend kiss, though much of their interaction is fairly chaste, even sweet. One piece of graffiti refers to "blue balls." |
| Language | Surprisingly mild in comparison to the movie's themes: Just some use of "a--hole" and "damn." Other language includes lots of disrespectful references to the aged (for example, one character says "I just love to see their wrinkled old faces light up"). |
| Drugs | Lots of drinking, especially in the beginning of the movie when Wendell is selling fake IDs. A male nurse abuses prescription drugs. |