Whiteout

Whiteout is rated R: for violence, grisly images, brief strong language and some nudity.

Release Date: 11 September 2009

Because we only review G, PG, and PG-13 movies at Parent Previews we did not review this title. For your convenience, we have provided some brief information about the film’s synopsis and content.

Synopsis: A murder at McMurdo Station has U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) desperately trying to find the killer before the lights go out during Antarctica’s six-month-long night of winter.

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director: Dominic Sena

Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt

Content Information:

This additional information about the movie’s content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards:

Violence:

- Frequent portrayals of graphic violence, including shootings, stabbings and fighting (details shown).

- Gory images and disturbing scenes, including gory wounds, injuries and mutilated corpses.

- Some scenes may frighten children.

Sexual Content:

- Male frontal nudity is seen in a non-sexual context.

- Portrayals of print pornography (buttock nudity and a little detail shown).

- Mild sexual references and innuendo.

Language:

- Infrequent use of the sexual expletive.

-Infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, and vulgar expressions.

Drugs and Alcohol:

- Substance abuse.

Of Special Note:

McMurdo Station and the real inhabitants of the South Pole are the focus of the documentary Encounters at the End of the World, while the family drama Eight Below tells the tale of a team of huskies left to endure Antarctica’s dark winter. Kate Beckinsale searches for a romatic stranger (insted of a murderer) in Serendipity, and plays a rebeloius teenager facing incareration abroad in Brokedown Place.

Studio: 2009 Warner Brothers Pictures.