Why is boiler room rated r

If you think what we do is worthwhile, please donate or become a member advertisement Boiler Room R - 3. A college drop-out Giovanni Ribisi joins a brokerage house with the promise of becoming a quick millionaire and soon discovers it's too good to be true. We see a presumably post-coitus couple talking in bed only the sides of their faces and his bare shoulders are visible.

We glimpse a small, classic nude female statue. Some grabbing and shoving sometimes people are shoved to the ground or out of a door ; at the end of one scene two groups of men begin shoving each other and it's implied that it turns into a brawl. A man kicks a table. That's why we've added a new "Diverse Representations" section to our reviews that will be rolling out on an ongoing basis.

You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. Parents need to know that the primary reason for the R rating is very strong language, including racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-semitic epithets. Characters smoke, drink, use drugs, and beat people up. Two characters have an affair, though nothing is shown. Add your rating.

Add your rating See all 2 kid reviews. Seth Giovanni Ribisi wants two things very badly. He wants to make a lot of money quickly, and he wants the respect of his father Ron Rifkin , a federal judge. Seth drops out of college to run a highly profitable business. His entrepreneurship and work ethic are impeccable. But his line of business -- a casino run out of his home -- is not. A casino customer tells him about a way to make a lot of money as a stockbroker. At a huge cattle call of an interview, Jim Young Ben Affleck promises that everyone who stays in their program will become a millionaire within three years, tossing the keys to his Ferrari on the table as proof.

Seth signs up as a trainee at J. Marlin, a Long Island stock brokerage firm. Seth quotes a rap song that says that to make money fast "you have to have a jump shot or sling crack," and adds that for white boys, the equivalent of slinging crack is selling stock. And the stock he sells, like crack, provides a giddy, addictive high while it is destroying the victim's finances, and more.

Seth finds that it can destroy the seller as well as the buyer. First time writer-director Ben Younger creates a realistically edgy world that runs on rap music and testosterone.

Rival brokers taunt each other like Sharks and Jets in Armani suits. These are lonely, insecure, immature men. The ironically named Jim Young points out that at age 27 he is one of the oldest people in the firm. They travel in packs and except for Seth we never see them with families or on dates. Seth is drawn to this world in part because the masculine leadership and approval makes up for his emotionally absent father. But he is unable to turn away from his growing awareness that something is wrong and that J.

Marlin is far more corrupt than his casino operation. In one superb scene, Seth is so proud of his skill as a salesman that he coaches a telemarketer who calls to sell him a newspaper subscription. Younger has a fresh and clever take on things and his music video experience lends a raw, hyper, thrill-seeking tone to the movie.

Families can talk about how moral choices are made, how consequences are evaluated, and how difficulties in family communication can affect behavior outside the family. They might want to check out the film's Web site before seeing the movie, to familiarize themselves with terminology like IPO, cold call, and rip.

Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. See how we rate. Streaming options powered by JustWatch. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, earns a small affiliate fee from Amazon or iTunes when you use our links to make a purchase. Thank you for your support. Everybody wants to be a millionaire right now, he observes.

Ironically, the dream of wealth he's selling with his cold calls is the same one J. Marlin is selling him. In the phone war room with Seth are several other brokers, including the successful Chris Vin Diesel and Greg Nicky Katt , who exchange anti-Jewish and Italian slurs almost as if it's expected of them. At night the guys go out, get drunk and sometimes get in fights with brokers from other houses.

The kids gambling in Seth's apartment were better behaved. We observe that both gamblers and stockbrokers bet their money on a future outcome, but as a gambler you pay the house nut, while as a broker you collect the house nut. Professional gamblers claim they do not depend on luck but on an understanding of the odds and prudent money management.

Investors believe much the same thing. Of course, nobody ever claims luck has nothing to do with it unless luck has something to do with it. The movie has the high-octane feel of real life, closely observed. It's made more interesting because Seth isn't a slickster like Michael Douglas or Charlie Sheen in " Wall Street " a movie these guys know by heart , but an uncertain, untested young man who stands in the shadow of his father the judge Ron Rifkin who, he thinks, is always judging him.

The tension between Seth and the judge is one of the best things in the film--especially in Rifkin's quiet, clear power in scenes where he lays down the law. When Seth refers to their relationship, his dad says: "Relationship? What relationship? I'm not your girlfriend. Relationships are your mother's shtick.

I'm your father. When she touches his hand, it is at the end of a scene during which she empathizes with him.