Look Both Ways

Positive Messages

Do your best with what you've got. Life isn't a straight line and can't always be planned out in advance. Roll with the punches. Sometimes you have to take a risk to get a reward.

Positive Role Models

Natalie is a young woman figuring out her path in life. She's ambitious and organized, but she also does her best with the circumstances when unexpected events occur. Her parents have their own lives but welcome her back into their home, help take care of her. She and the father of her baby, who leaves it up to her whether to go through with the pregnancy, co-parent. She prioritizes parenting over friends and career. Her boyfriend in the parallel story chooses his career over their relationship at first.

Diverse Representations

Main character is White. The father of her baby and love interest in one story is Latino; her boyfriend in the parallel story is White. Her best friend and boss/mentor are both Black women. Some diversity among secondary characters.

Inclusion information: Black director, Bisexual actor, Latinx actor, Black actor, Black screenwriter

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

A night together (we see the couple land on a bed kissing and taking off their shirts) leads to an unplanned pregnancy in one version of the character's story, even though she says they "used a condom." He talked her into "seizing the moment" and having sex even though they weren't dating. When she moves back home, her parents discuss giving up their "naked Sundays" and that they'd had the sex talk with her and shown her how to use a condom at age 15. She has another relationship and we see them kissing, including in bed. Other characters kiss.

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Language

"F--k," "s--t," "bitch," "sucks," "t-tty," "screw up," "oh my God," "good Lord."

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Products & Purchases

University of Texas, Austin, Volvo, Nike, Mac, SXSW, NordicTrack, Whataburger, animation studios.

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

College students and young adults drink alcohol, party, and smoke joints. A college student's clothes have a marijuana leaf motif.

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Parents Need to Know

父母需要知道Look Both Waysis a parallel lives story that follows two different possible paths for a young college graduate (Lili Reinhart) depending on the results of a pregnancy test. The film has sexual situations, language, and partying. The main character spends the night with her best male friend, which leads to the pregnancy scare -- despite, she says, having used a condom. We see them on the bed kissing and taking off their shirts. We see other couples kissing. College students and young adults party, consume alcohol, and smoke joints. Language includes "f--k," "s--t," "bitch," "sucks," "t-tty," "screw up," "oh my God," and "good Lord." The film suggests that the woman's life would turn out fine whatever the pregnancy test result.