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Given that it includes a line to the effect of “Can you pound a six inch nail through a board with your penis?” you might want to find something else.
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Hmm…I’d forgotton about that. I guess there’s also the “I didn’t want you guys to think I was stuffy…you know, all brains, no penis,” and “Kent, stop touching yourself.” Damn.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has a great scene about the misapplication of probability:{Harry shoots someone during a Russian roulette interrogation}
Perry: What did you just do?
Harry: I just put in one bullet, didn’t I?
Perry: You put a live round in that gun?
Harry: Well yeah, there was like an 8% chance.
Perry: Eight? Who taught you math!The fillm also as a couple of grammar lessons about the use of adverbs. (“Who taught you grammar? ‘Badly’ is an adverb, idiot!”) Unfortunately, there’s no a chance the movie will meet your critieria.
Unless Little Man Tate, Looking for Bobby Fischer and War Games are racier than I remember, they may fill the bill. Kids may hoot when they watch those creaky old War Games computers in action.
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Unless Little Man Tate, Looking for Bobby Fischer and War Games are racier than I remember, they may fill the bill. Kids may hoot when they watch those creaky old War Games computers in action.
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And it looks like we have a winner. Not too mathy, but still school-appropriate and family-friendly:
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I would recommend Proof, but it does have one sex scene. I don’t recall if Contact does, but if not, it’d be a good choice. And I’m certain that Apollo 13 meets all your criteria (there’s not much math shown on screen, but it’s pretty clearly there).
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*Contact *has a scene where two characters wind up in bed together, but it’s an “after-the-fact” situation and there’s no nudity (i.e. you can’t see “anything”).
October Sky is a great suggestion. One of the main plot points in the movie involves the lead character teaching himself advanced math concepts so that he can better build and retrieve his rockets. It’s a nice “see how useful math is?” type of moment.
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How about Pi? It’s rated R for language and some sexual content, but nothing really bad. It’s not exactly Requiem for a Dream, y’know.
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You know, there’s really no sex, violence or profanity in ERASERHEAD.
I can’t find the title, but last week ai watched a documentary about the MIT blackjack team that fleeced Las Vegas casinos for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Here’s a good page all about math in the movies.
While I like some of the other suggestions in this thread better, from a timing standpoint it sounds like it would work well to show one episode of Numb3rs each day.
I only saw one movie the whole time I was in school and although it might have had a little bix of sexual reference and minor violence, it sure didn’t deter from its overabundance of good points.
