A character has an affair with the White daughter of the warden, resulting in pregnancy and a situation in which he cannot admit to being the father. A gay prisoner on the verge of parole opts for the suicide of getting shot and killed by a guard while trying to escape rather than facing the shame and disapproval of his family because of his sexual orientation. One of the lead characters is shown hanging upside down, tied with rope, and dunked into the ocean by mob henchmen at a New York City dock. Violent and bloody fistfight between two prisoners. In the previous scene, this sheriff's face gets sliced with a switchblade by the Black man as he tries to stand up to the sheriff's racist bullying. Expect strong language throughout, including the "N" word (used by White and Black characters), "motherf-ker," and "f-k." Gun violence, including characters getting shot and killed at close range, and a Black man killed, his body left on the street bloodied by a corrupt Mississippi sheriff.
Parents need to know that Life is a 1999 comedy in which Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence play two Harlem men wrongly convicted of murder serving time in a Mississippi work camp for over 60 years. Prisoner shown sneaking a snort of cocaine while other inmates play poker and use their prescription pills as poker chips.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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Two of the men in the work camp are gay, and while there are some weak and cliched prison rape jokes and insinuations early on, the movie later takes a more sympathetic tone when one of the inmates, on the verge of being paroled, chooses suicide rather than facing his mother's shame over his sexual orientation.Ĭigarette smoking throughout.
Side stories include a mentally-challenged man who turns out to be a gifted baseball player drafted by a White scout in the Negro League this character also has an affair with the White daughter of the warden, resulting in pregnancy and a situation in which he cannot admit to being the father. All of the convicts are Black men, and the movie doesn't shy away from the racism in all forms that has devastated their lives. Shows the lives of two Black men wrongly convicted of murder in Mississippi and their life sentence in a labor camp over the course of six decades.
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