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The Visit (2015) Parent Guide

Unfortunately, this film struggles to deliver the fear factor that has been seen in other productions write and/or directed by m. night shyamalan..

For two teenaged children (Olivia DeJonge and Ed Oxenbould), a visit to Grandma’s house turns out to be more dangerous than it did for Little Red Riding Hood, when it becomes apparent that the elderly woman and her husband (Deanna Dunagan and Peter McRobbie) are not the sweet little old couple they first appear to be.

Release date September 11, 2015

Run Time: 94 minutes

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It’s been a few years since M. Night Shyamalan has attempted to spook audiences. With The Visit the director takes some pages from the classic children’s story Hansel and Gretel and adds a dash of Little Red Riding Hood to create a film that places two kids into grandma and grandpa’s strange abode.

Teenage Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and her younger brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) are frequently assuring their mother (Kathryn Hahn) that all will be fine if she takes some time away from them to go on a cruise with her boyfriend. Mom is still nervous about the arrangement of leaving her children with her parents, from whom she’s been estranged for the past fifteen years. At the same time Becca, who, like her brother, has never met her grandparents, is anxious to have an adventure and try out her hand at filming the experience as a documentary.

The kids are advised to go to bed at 9:30 and stay in their room. But when peculiar noises begin to keep them up at night they venture out to see what’s happening. Peering down the steps Becca is startled to see her grandmother rapidly pacing back and forth and then suddenly vomiting. Another night Tyler cracks open the bedroom door and finds a naked Nana (of which we share a rear view) scraping at the wall. Grandpa also has issues. His frequent visits to an old shed trigger Tyler’s curiosity and end up sending the boy’s germ phobia into overdrive.

When questioned individually Pop Pop explains his wife is struggling with symptoms of dementia and that the kids should not be alarmed. In similar manner, Nana talks to them about Pop Pop’s incontinence issues and how he is embarrassed by the problem. The discussions help Becca to settle into the week, however Tyler is still agitated by their behavior, which seems to become more extreme with each passing day.

The casting of these young protagonists may imply this film is suitable for similar aged audiences. Parents will want to be cautious with this assumption. These kids will find themselves in a serious situation that, while not often explicitly violent, may be bothersome for many—especially for young viewers with family members experiencing mental illness. A couple of scenes of abuse and images of dead corpses are brief but disturbing, as is a scene where a germ-sensitivity is exasperated by having the sufferer’s face maliciously covered in fecal matter. There are also some profanities and brief sexual banter.

Unfortunately this film also struggles to deliver the fear factor hoped for by the writer of the amazingly suspenseful The Sixth Sense . Instead, the bulk of this screenplay meanders at a slow pace until we reach the final concluding moments. Looking back we recognize the scare is dependent on audiences buying into many assumptions and coincidences that don’t hold up well during after-movie discussions.

The production does deliver some jump moments and even tries to convey a moral message as a take away from Grandma’s house. But with the script moving across the line that separates scaring children versus abusing them, The Visit becomes a destination you will likely want to pass by.

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Why is The Visit (2015) rated PG-13? The Visit (2015) is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for disturbing thematic material including terror, violence and some nudity, and for brief language.

Violence: A man knocks over and hits another man whom he suspects is spying on him. One character smears feces on another. Elderly characters behave strangely, including forgetting dates, becoming paranoid, laughing hysterically, running around naked, crawling on the floor, pacing aimlessly and making peculiar requests (such as asking a child to get in the oven). A man is seen with a gun in his mouth. Characters are threatened with a butcher knife. Corpses are shown and a body is seen hanging from a tree. Characters are in peril, which results in a fight for their lives—bloody injuries are shown. Deaths are implied. A domestic fight is discussed.

Sexual Content: A romance between a high school student and a teacher is discussed. A teen boy makes sexual comments, as well as using sexual slurs and slang terms in the lyrics of his rap music. Teens briefly banter about sexual topics. An unmarried couple goes on vacation together. An elderly couple kisses and hugs affectionately. A shirtless thirteen-year-old boy films himself and makes comments about being sexually alluring. An adult male participates in hairy chest competition. A woman is seen in a bikini. An elderly woman is seen with her bare buttocks exposed, and later completely naked (shown from the back) – to which a teenaged boy expresses repulsion. Incontinence is discussed and dirty adult diapers are shown. A character vomits.

Language: A sexual expletive is uttered and a sexual finger gesture is shown. Mild and moderate profanities, scatological slang, and terms of deity are used. Some vulgar sexual comments and slang terms are heard. Mild name-calling occurs. A child uses names of celebrities as a substitute for swearwords.

Alcohol / Drug Use: Characters smoke cigarettes.

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The Visit (2015) Parents' Guide

What things about this script make the story appear credible? What things seem implausible? How do these elements make the movie feel either more or less believable?

Both Nana and Pop Pop are behaving strangely. Each takes time to explain to their grandchildren what the other is suffering from. The conditions mentioned are actually real, and are often forms or symptoms of dementia . Learn more about sundowning and incontinence .

How have past disappointments affected the relationships of this family? How have they impacted the individuals? Which of the characters hope that a reunion will repair some of the damage. What lessons might they learn from their past problems? How easy do you think it is to heal from this kind of trauma?

The most recent home video release of The Visit (2015) movie is January 5, 2016. Here are some details…

Home Video Notes: The Visit Release Date: 5 January 2016 The Visit releases to home video (Blu-ray or DVD) with the following extras: - The Making of The Visit - Becca’s Photos

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M. Night Shyamalan also wrote and directed The Sixth Sense , Signs and The Village . Ed Oxenbould can be seen in light-hearted children’s movie Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day .

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SEX/NUDITY 4 - A teen girl records a teen boy as he poses in front of his mirror, showing his chest, while he is saying he is candy for the ladies. An elderly woman wearing a long skirt turns and walks away and we see a buttock up to the waist through a long tear in the material. A teen boy hears gurgling and banging, opens his bedroom door and we see an elderly woman standing across the hall in full back nudity, scratching at a doorframe, her buttocks jiggling. An elderly woman wears a long sleeveless nightgown that is opaque. In three laptop-screen full views during Internet chats, a woman leans forward toward the camera and she is wearing a V-necked top that reveals significant cleavage and in one of the shots we see the edges of her bra. In a laptop communication, a woman dances with a dance class on a cruise ship and they are all wearing bikinis or bikini tops and shorts (we see cleavage along with the bottoms of two pairs of buttocks). ►  A woman tells her 15-year-old daughter that she fell in love with one of her high school teachers (the girl's dad) and eloped with him at age 19, had two children with him, and then he fell in love with a woman he met at Starbucks and left her and their kids. A teen boy tells his teen sister that she does not have any boobs yet. A boy teases his teen sister about her liking the pizza delivery boy and she becomes tearful. In a laptop chat, a woman is on a cruise ship and says that there will be a Hairy Chest Contest, but we do not see it. ►  A man stands in the background behind a kitchen counter and we hear him remove and drop his shoes as his right hand moved as if pulling down his pants (no flesh is visible); the man places a folded adult diaper on top of the counter (implication is that it is his).

VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - An elderly man walks into a basement, sneaks up on a teen girl and grabs her; he says that a woman and children are in suitcases at the bottom of a pond, where the teen girl is going to join them; he forces her into a bedroom and locks her in with an elderly woman, who covers herself in a sheet like a ghost, crawls under the bed, snorts and reaches out several times, then sneaks up to the girl and grabs her, smashes the girl onto a mirror (it cracks loudly in several places) and then throws her onto a bed, strangling her as the girl screams for several seconds; the girl stabs the woman with a piece of broken glass and escapes by breaking the handle off the door (we see some blood on the teen girl's face, a pillow, and the older woman's face). A teen boy lies on a kitchen floor with his face reddened by bruises and an elderly man pulls him up by the hair, stands him by the sink and smashes a dirty adult diaper in his face; a teen girl enters and jumps on the man's back, the man grabs her and throws her to the floor as she screams and the boy jumps on the man while screaming unintelligible words several times and smashes the man into a cabinet in the background; the man's head lands on the floor behind the kitchen counter, the boy shouts in anger, and then he opens and slams the refrigerator door on the man's head six times (we cannot see it). ►  A teen girl walks into a farmhouse basement and sees three large gas cans that look like they are sitting in pools of blood; she finds a bloody hammer, two mental institution uniforms and the bludgeoned bodies of an elderly man and an elderly woman (we see the dead faces, gray with bruises and dried blood on their cheeks and foreheads). A teen boy and a teen girl open a door in an old farm house and see a woman hanging dead from a tree in the background of the scene and they slam the door shut. ►  A teen boy and a teen girl set up a camera to film the first floor of a farmhouse at night; they see an elderly woman slam a closet door over a dozen times before she finds the camera and screams into it in close-up, takes up a large knife and attempts to break down the door of a bedroom, but is unsuccessful (she kicks the door twice before giving up and the scene ends). A teen boy and his teen sister chase each other through the crawl space under a large house and an elderly woman on all fours, her long gray hair covering her head, crawls after each youth fast, scaring them until they hyperventilate and the girl shouts in fear as the woman calls out, "I'm gonna getcha!"; the girl scrambles out and falls onto her face as the elderly woman crawls out, stands, laughs and announces lunch. ►  A elderly woman asks a teen girl to crawl completely inside an oven to clean it in a couple of scenes and one time the woman slams the metal door shut with the girl inside, wipes it clean for several seconds, then opens it and lets the startled girl out. A teen girl finds an elderly man with a rifle and he says twice that he is only cleaning it. A teen girl jumps out of a closet and startles her younger brother. ►  A woman arrives at a farmhouse to visit with an elderly couple and does not leave again; she argues with an elderly couple outside and from inside the house by a window and we can hear muffled voices. On a town sidewalk with a teen boy and a teen girl, an elderly man runs across the street, knocks down a man and shouts, "Stop following me!" An elderly woman hits herself on the forehead with an open hand. A teen girl asks an elderly woman why her mother and she did not speak for 15 years and the woman begins to look angry, then screams and shudders, flinging her hands around for several seconds. ►  An elderly man takes a used adult diaper (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), unfolds it so the camera views the feces inside, and says, "You have a problem with germs, don't you?" and with the back of the boy's head to the camera, he rubs the diaper on the boy's face and the camera cuts away (we don't see the feces on the face). A teen girl walks downstairs one night and finds an elderly woman projectile vomiting at the foot of a long staircase (we see brown and yellow goo hitting the floor twice as the old woman moans) and an elderly man later says it was a "24-hour stomach thing" and old people sometimes get sick. A teen boy says that he wonders if dead bodies are in a farm shed and when he walks inside it, he finds a table covered with white plastic bags and buzzing flies; he picks up one bag and it unfolds to show feces on an adult diaper causing him to drop it, gasp, cough and run out of the shed. ►  A teen boy and a teen girl see an elderly woman wearing a long nightgown running back and forth through a hallway a few times, after which she lowers herself to all fours and crawls around like a bug. An elderly woman walks through a hallway as if in a trance. An elderly woman stands in a catatonic trance with one arm raised for several seconds, until her husband leads her out of the room. ►  A teen girl finds an elderly woman sitting in a rocker facing a wall, rocking and laughing; she tells the girl that she has a deep darkie and ties her headscarf tightly around her eyes, but the girl pulls off the scarf and the woman says, "You have to laugh to keep the deep darkies in a cave." An elderly woman tells a teen girl that a pond is home to alien creatures who put humans into a deep sleep and place them on the bottom of the pond for storage until time to take them to their home planet. Teen siblings show their mother her parents via a laptop camera and the mother looks horrified; she tells the kids those people are not her parents, calls the police, gets a voice message and tells her children that she is going to pick them up as fast as she can. A man tells a teen girl that he was fired from a factory because he saw a white thing running around the floor at night and a few nights later, he tells her it is out in a field at home, but we never see it. We hear that when a father left his 8-year-old son and 10-year old daughter, the boy became germaphobic and the girl refused to look at herself in a mirror ever again. An elderly man and an elderly woman tell two children not to go into the basement of their farmhouse, because the mold there will sicken them; the children are also not to leave their shared bedroom after 9:30 pm for any reason. A man says that a woman is "sun downing," causing her to imagine that her eaten food is trying to get out of her body. A teen girl cries because their father left them. A teen girl looks up Sundown Syndrome and tells her brother that an elderly man and an elderly woman are suffering from a chemical reaction to the sun going down, becoming paranoid and angry. An elderly woman tells a teen boy that an elderly man wears adult diapers and is ashamed to do so, so he collects the soiled diapers in the shed and burns them later in a field. A teen girl asks her mother why her grandparents are estranged from them and the mother replies that at age 19 she struck her mother, her father struck her, they all stood in shock for several seconds and the daughter left; the daughter refused to respond to her parents' attempts to contact her to reconcile and now they are dead. A mother and her teen daughter hug each other and cry. ►  A teen boy wipes doorknobs with a handkerchief in several scenes and he has a panic attack, complaining that he is out of tissues and touched a toilet handle, making him feel the germs all over his hands (we cannot see anything on his hands). ►  A boy films himself with his mouth open wide, his tongue out and slobbering, saliva spewing.

LANGUAGE 5 - At least 1 F-word, 1 obscene hand gesture, 2 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (Ho, old people, old coot, confused old fools, insane, crazy, fat, weird, blind, stupid, douche, brats), exclamations (wow, I don't give a ..., what the ..., shut up), female pop star names are used by a boy as cursing (Shakira, Carrie Underwood, Laura McLaughlin, Shania Twain), 1 religious profanity (GD), 2 religious exclamations (God, For Heaven's Sake).

SUBSTANCE USE - An elderly woman's nightstand contains several prescription bottles and a lotion tube with unreadable labels, we hear that a woman took medications and underwent therapy for four years, we hear that a woman in her thirties was in drug rehab, an elderly couple mention a Magic Elixir (we never see it), and a young teen boy mimics smoking a marijuana cigarette in front of a high school. A woman smokes a tobacco cigarette outside her house, and an elderly woman smokes at her dining room table.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Mental illness, physical confrontation, murder, families, relationships, love, marriage, abandonment, fidelity, forgiveness, reconciliation, germ phobia.

MESSAGE - Always make room for forgiveness and reconciliation.

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The best movie to watch after 9:30 PM, just don’t show any small children.

Not a great movie. creepy, not for kids.

Good movie, too short, scary but funny, not the visit you want, now that's a horror movie..

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Kathryn Hahn

Shyamalan's found-footage spooker has teens in peril.

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Review: ‘The Visit’ Is ‘Hansel and Gretel’ With Less Candy and More Camcorders

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By Manohla Dargis

• Sept. 10, 2015

In “The Visit,” an amusingly grim fairy tale, floorboards creak, doors squeak and lights lower and sometimes shriek to black. The story, a “Hansel and Gretel” redo for Generation Selfie, has the virtue of simplicity and familiarity: A young brother and sister travel into the deep, dark woods, but where they once innocently held hands, they’re now holding camcorders to record an adventure quickened by anxious laughs, yelps and screams and one shivery long knife. These children don’t need someone else to immortalize their once-upon-a-time; they just point and shoot.

The director M. Night Shyamalan has a fine eye and a nice, natural way with actors, and he has a talent for gently rap-rap-rapping on your nerves. At his best, he skillfully taps the kinds of primitive fears that fuel scary campfire stories and horror flicks; at his worst, he tries too hard to be an auteur instead of just good, letting his overwrought stories and self-consciousness get in the way of his technique. After straining at originality for too long, he has gone back to basics in “The Visit,” with a stripped-down story and scale, a largely unknown (excellent) cast and one of those classically tinged tales of child peril that have reliably spooked audiences for generations.

This Hansel and Gretel come equipped not only with his-and-her cameras but also a Spielbergian family dynamic, featuring a loving if somewhat distracted single mother (Kathryn Hahn) and an absent father. One of those well-meaning women whose desires unwittingly unleash a world of chaos, Mom (as she’s credited) opens the movie with some yammering, squirming like a witness for the prosecution in front of a camera operated by her off-screen daughter, Becca (an appealing Olivia DeJonge). Becca and her younger brother, Tyler (Ed Oxenbould, a charmingly exuberant scene-stealer), are to stay with their maternal grandparents while Mom and her boyfriend go on a cruise, and Becca has decided to make a documentary about the trip, the first of many references to moviemaking.

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In narrative terms, Mr. Shyamalan keeps it streamlined and simple. Becca and Tyler travel alone to visit their grandparents Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), whom the children have never met or seen in photos. As Mom tells Becca, she hasn’t been in touch with her parents since she left home years earlier, for reasons she refuses to explain, introducing a mystery that ignites a smoldering ember of doubt. Ms. Hahn, an appealingly disheveled blur, does a nice job of setting the enigmatic scene. With her beseeching eyes, Mom looks as if she’s asking for forgiveness, even as the laughter convulsing her mouth insists everything is all right. (Ms. Hahn, one of those screen presences who pushes and pulls at you, at times brings to mind a softer-edged Karen Black.)

Most of what follows takes place in Nana and Pop Pop’s house, an isolated storybook spread. Mr. Shyamalan sets a nice farmhouse scene, with an interior that looks copied straight from Heartland Monthly, complete with sagging armchairs, plank flooring and a rag rug as big as a Volkswagen. The grandparents, in turn, are pure Grant Wood types: gray, lean, almost stringy and a little hard. If they were older or the movie were, you could imagine them hardscrabbling their way through the Depression or driving a Model T out of Oklahoma. To that end, Ms. Dunagan and Mr. McRobbie at first play it largely straight and opaque, with the kind of tightly wound smiles and controlled gestures that suggest Puritan stock or perhaps madness.

Something weird slithers in, first in a crawlspace and then when Nana asks Becca for help cleaning the mischievously large oven, which was apparently built for roasting pigs and other juicy creatures. A total tease, Mr. Shyamalan has fun deploying such time-tested horror tricks, and conducts an entire orchestra of squeaks and screeches amid the shock cuts and Becca and Tyler’s cockeyed camera angles. He also plays with the filmmaking theme, mostly through Becca, a pretentious baby auteur who throws around terms like mise-en-scène. As the scares gather, though, and she loses directorial control, Becca becomes what she always was: every filmgoer (and critic) who thinks she knows everything about making movies, which may be why Mr. Shyamalan so enjoys tormenting her.

“The Visit” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It’s a hard world for little things.

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Summary A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.

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In Theaters

• September 11, 2015
• Olivia DeJonge as Becca; Ed Oxenbould as Tyler; Kathryn Hahn as Loretta (Mom); Deanna Dunagan as Nana; Peter McRobbie as Pop Pops

Home Release Date

• January 5, 2016
• M. Night Shyamalan

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• Universal Pictures

Movie Review

It’s not that Becca and Tyler are really excited about taking a trip to see their estranged grandparents. After all, they’ve never even met them before. In fact, since their mom stormed out of her parents’ lives when she was 19, she hasn’t really seen or spoken to them either. But Nana and Pop Pops have repeatedly reached out in hopes of meeting the kids. And from Becca’s perspective, this trip, this newly forged connection could be a perfect opportunity.

Namely, that it will allow Becca to procure the “elixir” her mom so desperately needs.

To most people that kind of talk probably sounds overly dramatic. But that’s the kind of introspective, bright and thoughtful teen Becca is. She’s determined to record their whole trip as a sort of cinéma vérité that will serve the dual purpose of school project and, well, mythical quest.

You see, ever since her father found “something better” and walked out on them all a few years back, everything in their family has been on a downward spiral. Her young brother is oddly germophobic. Becca has become sort of adverse to looking in the mirror. Worse, Mom can’t seem to break out of a pattern of self-defeating choices.

If, in the course of this interview-based documentary video, Becca can help her grandparents and her mom see just how much they miss each other, just how much they need each other, why, Becca’s pretty sure that could set everything on the right path again. It would be the magical healing elixir that her family needs.

That shouldn’t be too hard to make happen, should it? I mean, that’s what families are supposed to do. No matter how harshly Mom has spoken of her parents in the past, they can’t be that bad! Surely they can forgive and forget.

They’re not monsters, after all.

Positive Elements

Becca’s efforts to get the forgiveness elixir for her mom is both selfless and lovingly thoughtful. And at one point Mom even admits that forgiveness and reparation with her parents have always been within her reach. She recognizes, finally, that it was pride that made her refuse to grasp onto them. She encourages her daughter to never make that same mistake. “Please don’t hold on to anger, Becca” she tells the girl.

Both Becca and Tyler fight to protect each other.

Sexual Content

We see that Mom and her newest boyfriend are enjoying a week away together at a beach retreat getaway. During a Skype session, Mom dances around in a bikini top. Nana accidentally displays her bare backside and, on another occasion, is seen fully nude from the rear. Tyler poses in a video clip with his shirt off, reportedly offering a little “candy for the ladies.” He raps about puberty and his appeal to “skanks” and “hos” at his school. Women ogle shirtless men who are showing off in a contest.

Violent Content

Pop Pops explains that Nana suffers from a specific dementia (called “sundowning”) that only takes hold of her at night. We see her running around the house slamming and scraping at the walls. As the condition worsens, she pounds herself in the head, swings a knife threateningly and smashes Becca face-first into a mirror (which shatters). The kids catch Pop Pops with a shotgun barrel in his mouth.

One woman is hanged. Another is stabbed repeatedly with a large shard of glass. We see a hammer covered in caked blood and hair, and two decaying corpses. Both kids are battered and pummeled—thrown to the ground, bloodied with blows and dragged by the hair. A man is tackled, kicked and has his head slammed repeatedly into a refrigerator door (just out of the frame).

Crude or Profane Language

One f-word and two s-words join one or two uses each of “h—,” “a–” and “b–ch.” God’s name is combined once with “d–n.” Tyler flips his middle finger at his sister. He decides he wants to use female pop star names instead of swear words, turning artists such as Shakira and Katy Perry into joke-focused cusses.

Drug and Alcohol Content

Nana smokes a cigarette. Tyler mimes smoking a joint.

Other Negative Elements

Vomit and excrement are used for the dual purposes of humor and horror, with someone getting a face full of the latter.

What is it that teeters and totters a dramatic movie over into the realm of horror? Some filmmakers believe that push demands twisted depictions of horrid gruesomeness. Others opt for shocking creepy-crawlies that leap from the shadows and skitter across the ceiling.

Here, famed suspense director M. Night Shyamalan suggests that horror only requires a youthful point of view and a pair of grandparents showing the weaknesses of old age—frailties that include such things as the spits and spats of dementia and the embarrassing bodily rebellion of incontinence. And that quirky concept, quite frankly, is what gives The Visit its initial sense of humor and freshness in this genre.

(Though freshness is perhaps the wrong descriptor when we’re talking about soiled adult diapers, isn’t it?)

The Visit ends with some solidly wise advice. And it’s certainly more palatable than your average bloodcurdling, R-rated gush-in-the-nighter. But like all horror pics, the things that disquiet us most must be amplified before they reach mall multiplexes. Which means odd nocturnal movements become frantic and crazed. Awkward dribbles become spews. Before you know it, the zest of an original perspective explodes against the screen in predictably wincing and foul and violent ways.

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

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"The Visit" tells the story of a 32-year-old prison inmate, up for parole, dying of AIDS, trying to come to terms with his past. In a series of prison visits with his parents, his brother, a prison psychiatrist and a woman who was his childhood friend, he moves slowly from anger to acceptance--he becomes a better person.

This outline sounds perhaps too pious to be absorbing, and the final scenes lay on the message a little thick. But "The Visit" contains some effective performances, not least from Hill Harper as Alex, the hero. I remembered him from " Loving Jezebel " and from a supporting role in " He Got Game ," but wasn't prepared for the depth here; this is a performance announcing that Harper is to be taken seriously. Another surprise comes from Billy Dee Williams ; we think of him as a traditional leading man, but here he is as a proud, angry, unyielding father--an authority figure who takes it as a personal affront that his son has gone wrong.

But has he gone wrong? Alex is doing 25 years for a rape he says he didn't commit. His mother ( Marla Gibbs ) believes him. His father remembers that Alex stole from them, lied to them, was a junkie and a thief, and thinks him capable of anything. Alex's brother Tony ( Obba Babatunde ), well-dressed, successful, mirrors the father's attitudes; it diminishes them to have a prisoner in the family.

The movie doesn't crank up the volume with violence and jailhouse cliches, but focuses on this person and his possibilities for change. The key law enforcement officials are not sadistic guards or authoritarian wardens, but people who listen. Phylicia Rashad plays the psychiatrist, trying to lead him past denial into acceptance, and there are several scenes involving a parole board that are driven by insight, not the requirements of the drama. The board members, led by Talia Shire , discuss his case, express their doubts, get mad at one another, seem real.

Rae Dawn Chong plays Felicia, the old friend, who has her own demons. A former addict and a prostitute, she killed an abusive father, but now has her life together and visits Alex at the urging of Tony (it's perceptive of the movie to notice how reluctant family members often recruit volunteers to do their emotional heavy-lifting). Her story and other conversations trigger flashbacks and fantasies in a story that has enormous empathy for this man at the end of a lost life. (The screenplay by director Jordan Walker-Pearlman is from a play by Kosmond Russell , based on his relationship with a brother in prison.) Watching the movie, I was reminded of a powerful moment in " The Shawshank Redemption ," when the Morgan Freeman character, paroled as an old man, is asked if he has reformed. He says such words have no meaning. He is no longer the same person who committed the crime. He would give anything, he says, to grab that young punk he once was and shake some sense into him. "The Visit" is about the same process--the fact that the prisoner we see is not the same person who was convicted. If, that is, he is lucky enough to grow and change. The last act of "The Visit" hurries that process too much, but the journey is worth taking.

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The Visit (2001)

Rated R For Language and Some Drug Content

107 minutes

Hill Harper as Alex

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R-rated movies can, at times, be a gamble for studios to produce. Since they aren't friendly to younger audiences, they alienate a large percentage of the population, especially since parents can't go with their children to see these movies. Often, they don't perform as well as the studios hope, leading them to put out fewer of them yearly.

However, at times, an R-rated movie hits it out of the park and performs infinitely better than anyone expected it to. Typically, these are sequels or later entries to an existing franchise, like a comic book film that dares to push the limits of the genre's established conventions. These are the ten highest-performing films within the rating category.

The Hangover Part II Outperformed Its Predecessor

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The Hangover franchise is one of the most successful in modern comedy. The first entry earned praise upon release for the nature of its comedy, as it managed to be both clever and crude at the same time (a remarkable achievement, as most movies choose either one or the other to pursue). The cast's chemistry should be applauded, especially since the three leading actors remain friends to this day. Nothing about the film would have worked without them.

Despite the first film's success, however, it's the second movie in the franchise that earned the most money at the box office. Though its ratings were considerably more mixed, it coasted on the popularity of the original movie to become the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever made at the time. The sequel met criticism for how similar it was to the first film, as the two movies had almost the same plot and differed only in the setting. Regardless, it was a box office hit.

The Passion of the Christ Capitalized on Controversy

The passion of the christ.

Depicts the final twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, on the day of his crucifixion in Jerusalem.

Director Mel Gibson

Release Date February 25, 2004

Cast Maia Morgenstern, Monica Bellucci, Jim Caviezel

Runtime 2 hours 7 minutes

Main Genre Drama

Genres Drama

Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is one of the most controversial movies ever made. It depicts Jesus in the last hours of his life (interspersed with a few snippets of his life and teachings) as he suffered on the cross and eventually died. It opened on Ash Wednesday, which perhaps contributed heavily to its success. Its initial theatrical run sold about 60 million tickets, which is a remarkable number for a film with such risky subject material.

Upon release, critics had very polarizing opinions about the film. Some regarded it as one of the most important movies ever made since it did not shy away from tackling the gorier aspects of the crucifixion and preferred instead to take a deeply realistic approach. Others believed that the violence existed only for shock value and that, in addition to disturbing audiences, the film had remarkably anti-Semitic undertones. Regardless (or perhaps because of this controversy), it was a massive box-office success, and many continue to watch it today.

Logan Used Nostalgia to Its Advantage

In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.

Director James Mangold

Release Date February 17, 2017

Cast Richard E. Grant, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Merchant, Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook

Writers James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green

Runtime 2 hours 17 minutes

Main Genre superheroes

Genres Superhero, Sci-Fi, Action

Production Company Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, Kinberg Genre, Hutch Parker Entertainment, Donners' Company

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2017's Logan is regarded as one of the best superhero movies ever made. It's the first superhero adaptation to earn a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards (though it didn't take home the prize), and critics adored it upon its release. They believed it to be the perfect sendoff for such a beloved character, as it didn't read like a stereotypical, potentially formulaic, superhero movie. Rather, it subverted the conventions of the genre to create a truly beautiful love letter to a character who had been so adored for so long.

From the first moment, it was destined to be a smash hit. Over the first thirteen days of its theatrical run, it made more than the entire run of The Wolverine. Even before its release, it sold more tickets than any of the previous entries to the X-Men franchise other than Deadpool , which assuaged the studio's fears that the R rating would frighten away some audiences. It left audiences hungry for more movies like it, and fans are certainly intrigued by what lies in the future for the titular character now that he's confirmed to return in Deadpool and Wolverine .

Detective Chinatown 3 Demonstrates the Power of International Cinema

The Detective Chinatown franchise may be unfamiliar to American audiences - especially because, as of last year, the film has not come out in the United States despite releasing in 2021 for Chinese audiences. It's the third installment to the series, whose previous entries are just as beloved as this one. It follows two detectives who are tasked with traveling to Tokyo to investigate a crime - leading them into a standoff against the best detectives in Japan.

It boasts the highest opening for an international feature - it even had a larger opening than Avengers: Endgame did in the United States, making it the largest opening weekend in history in a single territory. Its first-day grosses also beat Avengers: Endgame 's, which is remarkably impressive, given how much money it made right off the bat. It earned praise from critics for having more visual style than most franchise films and being willing to embrace insanity.

It Succeeds Where Its Predecessors Failed

In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

Director Andy Muschietti

Release Date September 8, 2017

Cast Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Finn Wolfhard, Bill Skarsgard

Writers Gary Dauberman, Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga

Runtime 135 Minutes

Main Genre Horror

Producer Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Barbara Muschietti

Production Company New Line Cinema, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Vertigo Entertainment, Lin Pictures, KatzSmith Productions

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Stephen King adaptations have always been a bit tricky. The ones that succeed knock it out of the park, while the ones that fall flat do it so aggressively that they're nearly impossible to watch. It is one of the most notoriously difficult properties of his to bring to the screen since the original attempt - a miniseries starring Tim Curry as Pennywise - met with mixed critical reception upon its release back in 1990. As the series continued, reviews got less and less favorable, with the conclusion being the source of the greatest disappointment for both critics and fans of the original novel.

In 2017, a successful interpretation of It was finally released. Critics adored the way it blended its truly horrifying aspects with the friendships that make up the emotional core of the movie. They couldn't get enough of Bill Skarsgard's chilling performance as Pennywise, which earned him nominations for numerous awards. It made the most out of any R-rated movie on Thursday night previews, surpassing Deadpool. At one point, it boasted the highest opening for any horror movie and is the highest-grossing Stephen King adaptation. Though the sequel let down some diehard fans of the original movie, its significance in the greater scale of horror cinema cannot be denied.

The Matrix Reloaded Set Countless Records

The matrix reloaded.

Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.

Director Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

Release Date May 15, 2003

Cast Helmut Bakaitis, Hugo Weaving, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu Reeves, Monica Bellucci

Writers Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

Runtime 138 minutes

Main Genre Sci-Fi

Genres Sci-Fi, Action

1999's The Matrix is a landmark of cinema, so it only makes sense that the Wasichowskis wanted to follow it up with something just as wonderful. This effort resulted in The Matrix Reloaded , which was released in 2003. It picks up where the original story left off, with the majority of the cast reprising their roles. Fans flocked to the theaters to see Neo and Trinity, who are now in a romantic relationship, embark on their next great adventure against the Machine Army and seek out more information about the inner workings of the Matrix itself.

Though many critics considered it to be a downgrade from the original, they still believed it to be a well-made and entertaining movie. They commended its commitment to making sure its characters grew as people rather than remaining entirely stagnant at the place they were at the end of the first movie. The box office numbers reflected this, as it held the highest six-day opening for almost the entirety of 2003 before it fell to Spider-Man 2 , and until the release of Deadpool , it was the highest-grossing R-rated film worldwide.

Deadpool Was a New Frontier for Superhero Films

A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal yet hideously scarred, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.

Director Tim Miller

Release Date February 12, 2016

Studio 20th Century Fox

Cast Michael Benyaer, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand, Karan Soni, Ed Skrein, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller, Ryan Reynolds

Writers Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese

Runtime 108 minutes

Main Genre Superhero

Genres Superhero, Comedy, Action, Adventure

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Deadpool was a step in a new direction for the world of superhero movies. Previously, entries to the Marvel franchise didn't dare to push the boundaries of adult humor or be incredibly violent out of fear that they would alienate younger theatergoers and their families, therefore limiting the success of the film. Deadpool didn't let any of those expectations pose a problem. It adapted the wise-cracking, foul-mouthed superhero as faithfully as possible, and therefore, maintained all those traits of his that many would have been afraid to bring to the screen.

The risk paid off tenfold. It dethroned The Matrix Reloaded as the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, a record it had held for over ten years by that point. It set day-of-the-week records every day for Thursday through Monday and for the entire month of February. It crossed the $200 million threshold faster than any other R-rated movie ever had. The studio had no idea how it ended up so successful other than its quality and its incredible marketing campaign, but they certainly weren't willing to complain about the unexpected profits flooding their pockets.

Deadpool 2 Improved on the First Film's Performance

Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.

Director David Leitch

Release Date May 18, 2018

Studio 20th Century Fox; Marvel Entertainment

Cast Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Ryan Reynolds, Zazie Beetz, Julian Dennison

Writers Fabian Nicieza, Rob Liefeld, Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese, Ryan Reynolds

Runtime 119 minutes

The second entry to the Deadpool franchise surprisingly surpassed the popularity of the first one. It maintained the spirit of the first movie while still providing a fresh story, interesting takes on the characters and new jokes that had audiences laughing uproariously in the theater. Wade Wilson's latest adventure found him squaring off with Cable, played by Josh Brolin who also played Thanos in the MCU , to protect a young mutant from him.

It was destined to be a hit before it even hit theaters, as both Regal Cinemas and Fandango cited it as their most successful R-rated film in presales. It hit the most theaters of any R-rated movie, breaking the record previously set by It back in 2017. Deadpool 2 was the first movie to surpass Avengers: Infinity War at the box office, which is an achievement in and of itself, given how dominant the Infinity Saga was at the box office throughout its time at the theater. It's one of the best-received superhero sequels in history and deserves every ounce of the success it has received.

Oppenheimer Is the Highest Grossing Biopic of All Time

Oppenheimer.

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director Christopher Nolan

Release Date July 21, 2023

Cast Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Scott Grimes, Jason Clarke, Alden Ehrenreich

Runtime 180 Minutes

Main Genre Biography

Genres Biography, Drama, History

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Cinemagoers couldn't take two steps into a movie theater in 2023 without hearing Oppenheimer 's name. It was one-half of the year's biggest cultural phenomenon and the most recent recipient of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Critics lauded it upon release. They considered it to be one of the greatest films of the year, and its presence on numerous lists of top films reflects this. It's the highlight of everything Nolan has done up to this point, as it combines the intellectual nature of his filmmaking with the historical terror of its subject.

In part, because of Barbenheimer and in part because it's just that good of a movie, Oppenheimer set countless box office records. It's the highest-grossing movie to never reach the number one spot at the box office (solely because Barbie continued to block it). Oppenheimer gave Nolan his best opening weekend ever, surpassing the entire Dark Knight trilogy, and has the third-highest opening for any biopic. Oppenheimer is one of the most successful films ever made both in terms of accolades and in terms of profit, and deserves to be celebrated for that.

Joker Is the Highest-Grossing R-rated Movie Ever Made

Joker (2019).

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Director Todd Phillips

Release Date October 4, 2019

Cast Robert De Niro, Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz

Writers Scott Silver, Bob Kane, Todd Phillips

Runtime 2 hours 2 minutes

Main Genre Villains

Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime

Production Company Warner Bros. Pictures

2019's Joker takes the crown as the highest-grossing R-rated film up to this point. The origin story for Batman's most iconic foe pushes the limits of what a comic book movie can be perhaps even more than the Deadpool films did. It never shied away from showing incredibly graphic kills that stay true to its titular character's violent nature. For his role as Arthur Fleck, Joaquin Phoenix took home the prize for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the movie itself was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, breaking the record for the most nominations for a movie based on a comic book.

It was just as much of a commercial success as it was a critical one. It set career records for the majority of its stars, including Joaquin Phoenix himself and Robert de Niro. It boasted the fourth-largest debut of any R-rated film ever created, falling to only the two Deadpool films and the first It film. It stayed in theaters for a whopping 155 days, and in this time, it also became the fourth-highest domestic gross for any film. It's one of the most incredible successes of any modern movie and deserves to be celebrated as such.

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