As Joe tells his tale of his never ending search for his parents, various flashbacks shows Joe's efforts as well as his encounters with various people around the country. They include Brandy (BRITTANY DANIEL), a young woman who befriends Joe despite him being the target of ridicule by local boy Robby (KID ROCK) and her own father (JOE DON BAKER).
Then there's Kicking Wing (ADAM BEACH), an American Indian Joe wants to hire as a tracker, but is more interested in supporting his dream of becoming a veterinarian through selling fireworks. Jill (JAIME PRESSLY) is a woman he meets at a carnival, falls for, and then worries may be his long lost sister. In New Orleans, Joe briefly works for Clem (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN), a school custodian with a checkered past, and then later meets Charlene (ROSANNA ARQUETTE) who runs a gator farm.
As Joe continues telling his story to Zander over the radio and recounts meeting others and holding down a variety of odd jobs, he soon becomes something of a celebrity, all while still trying to find his parents and figure out why they left him so many years ago.
Various women are seen in partially revealing clothing (and the camera focuses on one woman's legs and rear end in one scene), while we see a brief part of a woman's bare breast, and most of a man's bare butt as he "moons" the protagonist. Other forms of imitative behavior are also present. Several characters drink and smoke, while various instances of violence played for laughs are present.
They include some brief physical contact between people - including a brief fight - and jokes about a man's leg being cut off, an atom bomb exploding and vaporizing a man (a dream), a man shooting and killing a dog (off camera), a lethal mob hit, some slapstick style material and a brief, but non-fatal encounter with a crocodile.
Various characters have bad attitudes (especially as directed toward the protagonist) while several instances of scatological and/or gross-out comedy are present. Should you still be concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone in your home, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed content listings for more specific info about what occurs in the film.
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(2001) (David Spade, Dennis Miller) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Mild
Moderate
Extreme
Minor
Moderate
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Moderate
None
None
None
Moderate
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Heavy
Minor
Mild
Mild
Moderate
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Reviewed April 3, 2001 / Posted April 11, 2001
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