Parents Guide for
21 (2008)

Several scenes in an exotic dance club (the dancers are wearing bra-like tops and short shorts and some are wearing only g-strings and bras; tattoos are visible on several bare buttocks and one dancer is topless but wearing pasties as we see her breasts as she dances).

A man sits in a chair, and another man punches him in the face and then in the stomach (substantial blood flows from the man's mouth). In a dark basement, two men threaten a college student: one of the men hits him in the face (we see a little blood from the corner of his mouth) and the stomach, and one man places heavy rings on his hand, makes a fist and hits the student in the face (we do not see this punch land); he then threatens to kill him (we see the student with a slightly swollen face and lip and later a black eye). Two men put a burlap bag over a young man's head and kidnap him while he screams (he ends up OK). There is a fistfight in a casino between two sets of men, one man pulls out a gun and fires it into the air, chairs are tipped over, beer bottles and glasses break and chips go flying, security men break up the fight and lead the gun-shooter away while the other participants flee. A young man slams another young man into a dining room booth and yells at him. In a casino, four men in suits run toward a blackjack table and a young man yells, grabs his chips, and runs from the table. In a flashback scene, several men run from the shadows through a casino toward a blackjack table where a man looks up with a shocked expression and leaves the table quickly. In a college lecture hall, a professor throws a piece of chalk and hits a student's arm (the student yells, "Ouch"). A college student in a casino hotel steals as much as he can fit into his luggage, including Bibles, ashtrays, many things from maids' carts, and similar items; his professor yells at him twice about stealing. A male and female college students tell each other that their fathers are gone, implying that they are dead. A professor yells at a college student loudly and the student yells back. A man hides behind a slot machine, watches four colleges students cheat at blackjack, calls security, one of the students is caught and the scene cuts to the student in a dark basement. A young man runs through a loading dock and kitchen with a young woman, chased by security, they run outside, and they are threatened by a security guard with a gun. In a dark basement, a man threatens a second man tied to a chair and says he will turn the second man over to the IRS.

3 scatological references, 5 anatomical references, 12 mild obscenities, 1 religious profanity, 1 religious exclamation, name-calling (crazy, stupid, infant, donkey-boy, retard), 1 derogatory remark about women and 1 derogatory remark about Asians.

Several bar scenes show bottles and glasses of beer on dining tables and the bar, and a few people sip briefly from glasses of beer, several casino scenes show beer bottles, wine and highball glasses, and a few people drink, a man pours liquor from a bottle into a glass and drinks, and three college students pour whiskey into glasses and one drinks. Several scenes show one person smoking a cigarette, two scenes show a smoky underground gambling room with several people smoking cigarettes, and several scenes in an exotic dance club show a few people smoking briefly. A professor instructs college students in a casino to order non-alcoholic drinks, but to act a little drunk. Two male friends confront a third about the possibility of him taking recreational drugs (he denies the accusation).