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"JACK AND JILL"
(2011) (Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes) (PG)


At-A-Glace Content Summary

Alcohol/Drugs Moderate
Blood/Gross Stuff Heavy
Disrespectful/Bad Attitude Extreme
Frightening/Tense Scenes Minor
Gun/Weapons Minor
Imitative Behavior Extreme
Jump Scenes Mild
Music (Scary/Tense) None
Music (Inappropriate) None
Profanity Mild
Sex/Nudity Moderate
Smoking None
Tense Family Scenes Extreme
Topics to Talk About Heavy
Violence Moderate


QUICK TAKE:
Comedy: A successful family man must deal with his annoying twin sister extending her annual Thanksgiving visit through New Year's.
PLOT:
Jack Sadelstein (ADAM SANDLER) is a successful advertising director in Los Angeles with a large home; a beautiful wife, Erin (KATIE HOLMES); and two kids, the precocious Sofia (ELODIE TOUGNE) and the adopted, intuitive Gary (ROHAN CHAND). There's one time of the year he dreads, though, and that's Thanksgiving when his shrill, annoying twin sister Jill (also ADAM SANDLER) comes to visit.

Jill is the type that has never gotten married, never had kids, and never moved out of the parents' home. But with the death of Jack and Jill's father years earlier and the recent passing of their mom, she is alone. She arrives with an open-ended plane ticket and a knack for worming her way into Erin and the kids' hearts. They want her to stay. Jack wants her gone...that is, until film star Al Pacino (HIMSELF) falls head over heels in love with Jill.

Jack and his assistant Todd (NICK SWARDSON) want desperately to convince Pacino to appear in a Dunkin' Donuts TV commercial that will win his firm a lucrative account with the restaurant chain. But, after a disastrous Internet date with a rude man named Funbucket (NORM MacDONALD), Jill only has eyes for Jack's jovial, blue-collar landscaper, Felipe (EUGENIO DERBEZ). Jack goes to increasingly desperate lengths to bring Jill and the borderline demented Pacino together, even donning his sister's clothes and impersonating her to get the deal done.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
Yes. It's being touted as a family comedy with its PG rating. For an Adam Sandler movie, it's actually pretty clean.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG
For crude material including suggestive references, language and comic violence.


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