My 15 yo DD wants to see Train Wreck

[Anonymous]

By 15, nothing she sees in an R rated movie should corrupt her. I'd make sure she knew beforehand that the movie contains nudity, sex, etc & let her decide if she'd be comfortable seeing it.

[Anonymous]

No, but mainly because the main character is a woman who is not a monogamist -- she believes in sampling the field. There's nothing wrong with this for an adult and I'm not judging, but I don't think this is the message I'd want to send my 15YO daughter.

I would not feel comfortable sitting next to my teen daughter and watching the movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, but mainly because the main character is a woman who is not a monogamist -- she believes in sampling the field. There's nothing wrong with this for an adult and I'm not judging, but I don't think this is the message I'd want to send my 15YO daughter.

I would not feel comfortable sitting next to my teen daughter and watching the movie.

I think the subject matter of the movie is an opportunity for discussion -- why do people decide to be monogamous, or not? -- and for meta-discussions -- is this a groundbreaking film because it depicts a woman playing the field, or does it undercut that point by pushing monogamous happily ever after.

But the bolded -- yeesh. Ditto on the point made about about A Fish Called Wanda, or the Zoot scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or any other movie depicting something both parent and child know exists but maybe don't want to watch together.

If you take her, do you have to sit with her?

[Anonymous]

I went to see it alone to determine if it was appropriate for my 13 year old daughter. The answer was absolutely not. I took her to see Book of Mormon earlier this year and thought that was mostly fine.

A lot of the jokes in Trainwreck would be difficult to understand if you've never had sex.

[Anonymous]

OP Here- Thank you for all of the feedback. I've decided not to take her because it sounds like there are too many sex scenes in the film.

[Anonymous]

^Op again--- and I explained to DD that the movie has a lot of sex scenes so she isn't as interested in seeing it now. She was really interested in just the romantic comedy part.. Maybe when it comes out on demand I can fast forward through any of the explicit scenes.

[Anonymous]

It opens with a sex scene. Just FYI.

I'm the pp who previewed it. I was a bit bummed that she won't be able to see it. She really likes Bill Hader, and Amy Schumer, though to a lesser degree.

[Anonymous]

Why not? See it early, go to dinner after and have an adult discussion about sexuality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not? See it early, go to dinner after and have an adult discussion about sexuality.

Because she'd be uncomfortable seeing it at this point. She left the room when she saw some of the graphic sex scenes in Reese Witherspoon's movie-
We do have discussions about sexuality, but I don't think she needs to see it until she's ready and wants to.