My older two are good at distinguishing fantasy from reality, but this movie would definitely seem to be depicting reality for preteen and cause some confusion for them.ДЄpparently my memory was faulty in remembering that this movie was a kid movie. I consider myself a fairly liberal parent when it comes to some of the things my kids watch for movies. Okay for mature 15 and up (better suited for 17+ though). There is some social drinking but not much. Sexual content is fairly strong especially for a PG-13, we have a vibrator found by a child that embarrasses a woman, teen girl sneaks her boyfriend over in her room and mom says she heard moaning sounds all night, same teen couple take naked pictures of each other during sex (nothing shown) and her mom picks them up first by accident, some kissing, a young boy hides porn tapes in his room and mom finds out.she plays a tape to see what it is and we see a couple in bed with some moaning sounds, a teen boy is asked to talk to the young boy about his sexual feelings because he won't talk to anyone, a woman goes down on her husband as a joke while he's driving and they get in an accident, some talk about a single mom having sex with machinery, a few jokes here and there. Violence isn't bad, just mainly yelling and arguing, an office is vandalized, talk of a loan shark. Language isn't frequent but words like sh*t, b*tch, sl*t is heard. Overall, It's very funny and definitely not boring.

The grumpy old father's other son comes to visit for only one reason (to borrow money from daddy) and complains about loan sharks harassing him for money he owes.

Then there's Susan (Harley Jane Kozak) and husband (Rick Moranis) raising their own young ones but have no clue where to start, their relationship soon deteriorates. Her daughter always has her punk boyfriend (Keeanu Reeves) over and her son is always to himself. Helen (Dianne Wiest) is a single mom raising her wild teen daughter (Martha Plimpton) and young son (Joaquin Phoenix) by herself. One of them has some sort of severe social anxiety and does poorly in school. Main couple, Gil (Steve Martin) & his wife played by Mary Steenburgen are raising 3 children. It's the type of film you would be embarrassed to watch with your family! It's basically about the many struggles parents go through raising children, this film features three families who are related to one or the other. But it's humor strictly for older teens and adults. I watched Parenthood when I was 13 and really enjoyed it (back then), now as a young adult it's still great but certainly not for kids that young! Funny? Yes, hilarious sometimes.

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