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City Island (2009)

PG-13 (US) | USA | English | 104 min

Directed by: Raymond De Felitta

7.3

Comedy Drama

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.

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Cast & Crew

Raymond De Felitta

Director

Andy Garcia

Vince Rizzo

Julianna Margulies

Joyce Rizzo

Steven Strait

Tony

Emily Mortimer

Molly

Ezra Miller

Vince Jr.

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City Island - Official Trailer 2010 [HD]

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Release Date

Hong Kong

(Hong Kong Filmart)

2009-03-23

USA

(Tribeca Film Festival, premiere)

2009-04-26

Russia

No data

2009-07-23

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

City Island

(Original title)

City Island

Australia

Confusões em Família

Brazil

Parent Guide

Sex & Nudity

Mild

<ul><li>There is an element of obese pornography and fetishization in the movie and several censored pornographic images are visible on a teenage boy's computer screen. This happens a few times thoroughout the film showing images of women with their private parts blacked out.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Some of the movie takes place in a men's club (not a strip club). No explicit nudity, but scantily-clad women.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A boy commands his mother to ask his father if he ever had sex with a certain woman he knew before he married his current wife.</li></ul>

<ul><li>At a family dinner, teen son brashly asks his sister if her breasts are larger since he saw her last. After he is sent to his room for this, his father gazes at her cleavage also while his new son sneaks looks also. It later is revealed she paid for a breast augmentation.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A teenage boy is shown using his mother's credit card to register himself to an obese pornography site (nothing graphic is seen).</li></ul>

<ul><li>A boy looks in on an obese woman that he has a "fat fetish" for by climbing up on a pile of trash outside of her window and looking through the window into her kitchen as she bakes some food. He begins to breathe heavily and pleasureably, but only for a short amount of time.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Bare-chested man works in backyard and exercises while two women take appreciative looks.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A man other than the woman's husband stares at a woman's clothed butt as she walks away from him.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A man, in reference to prison sex, says that if you aren't tough in prison, you'll be "on all fours sucking cement." The term "putting out whenever you ask" is also used in reference to prison sex in the same scene later.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A man accuses a woman of being a "hooker" (twice) because she "shows her tits for money."</li></ul>

Violence & Gore

Mild

<ul><li>A man vomits, but it is not shown, and it is meant to be comical.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A boy tells a woman that he considered killing himself, or chopping of his "sexual organ in an act of defiance."</li></ul>

<ul><li>A man threatens to kill a man with a knife. He ends up chasing him down and throwing the knife in his direction, but it misses the man entirely. The knife-throwing man then kicks the man in the groin, handcuffs him to a pole, and punches him in the face once.</li></ul>

<ul><li>In a fake movie-within-a-movie scene, a man is shot in the chest with lots of fake blood splatter.</li></ul>

Profanity

Mild

<ul><li>"Jerk-off" is used once as an adjective for a woman</li></ul>

<ul><li>"Pissed off" = 4</li></ul>

<ul><li>"S**t" = 21 (mostly used as "bulls**t)</li></ul>

<ul><li>"Damn" = 4 (used 3 times as "g**damn")</li></ul>

<ul><li>"Bitch" = 9</li></ul>

<ul><li>"Prick" = 2</li></ul>

<ul><li>"Whore" = 2</li></ul>

<ul><li>religious exclamations ("Jesus Christ," "Jesus," "Oh my god," etc.) = 5</li></ul>

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild

<ul><li>There is quite a bit of casual smoking and casual drinking of alcohol throughout the movie and very few drug references.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A teenage boy smokes cigarettes a few times throughout the film.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A woman tells a man about a detailed life story of hers involving drugs.</li></ul>

<ul><li>A teenager jokingly says to his father that he "did heroin with a group of prostitutes" last night.</li></ul>

All of the major characters smoke cigarettes, usually sneaking them.

<ul><li>A girl confesses to her mother that she was expelled from college for having marijuana in her possession (it is referred to as "pot" throughout the scene).</li></ul>

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Mild

<ul><li>There are very strong undercurrents of fetishization and other embarrassing family secrets.</li></ul>

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