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Desert Blue

MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA)

for strong language and some teen alcohol abuse.

Moral Rating:	Not Recommended
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:	Teens Adults
Genre:	Comedy
Length:	1 hr. 38 min.
Year of Release:	1999
USA Release:

Featuring	Brendan Sexton, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, John Heard
Director	Morgan J. Freeman
Producer	Andrea Sperling, Michael Burns, Nadia Leonelli
Distributor	TriStar Pictures, a division of Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “A young man in a desert town is determined to complete his dead father’s project, a water slide.”

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Secular Movie Critics

…lackluster …self-consciously “quirky” comedy that repeatedly pats itself on the back for being about nothing at all… evidently is supposed to elicit robust rounds of laughter because it sits in neutral while the audience prays (ultimately in vain) for it to start moving. …contains bad language, talk of sex, drug use, drinking and teens breaking things. And nothing else.

Paul Tatara, CNN