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Julia Roberts and Clive Owen play corporate spies who sleep together, lie constantly, and chase a lotion formula across cities. Dialogue is witty but peppered with s-word, b-word, and a-word, and affairs are treated as office sport. Violence is mostly off screen talk and brief scuffles. We land at 14 and up because the sexual banter and corporate greed plot assume adult viewers, even with a PG label
Uplifting themes
The script winks at honesty but rewards con artistry. Parents can talk about whether the fun tone glamorises cheating in business and love Ray and Claire are charming and competent but routinely deceive each other and their bosses. They are antiheroes played for glamour
Story (may spoil tone)
Two romantically involved government operatives Claire Stenwick and Ray Koval team up to manipulate a race between opposing corporations to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and allow them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together. They find themselves on opposing sides as corporate spies; however, as they each try to outdo the other, neither one can decide how far to trust the other in this high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
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Violence Expect strong language in the subtitle track, including Spy work leads…
Expect strong language in the subtitle track, including Spy work leads to chases and one bloody reference in metaphor, but few graphic fights. Threat stays corporate, not action-heavy
Language s-word, b-word, a-word, bull s-word, and g-word show up in banter and a…
s-word, b-word, a-word, bull s-word, and g-word show up in banter and anger. Hell and damn are common, giving the film a grown-up comedy tone
Sex / nudity Former lovers trade innuendo about past partners, porn habits, and slee…
Former lovers trade innuendo about past partners, porn habits, and sleeping together. A scene jokes about working naked, without showing nudity on screen
Drugs / alcohol Characters flirt while drunk, and ecstasy dealing is mentioned as part…
Characters flirt while drunk, and ecstasy dealing is mentioned as part of a lab’s side hustle. Drinking is social, not the main theme
Flashing lights We have not confirmed whether this version contains flashing lights.
We have not confirmed whether this version contains flashing lights.
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Talk after watching
- Ray and Claire trust each other romantically but spy professionally. Can love survive that kind of double game?
- Both companies cheat to win the market. What real-world rules keep businesses honest?
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