Recently, I went to a movie to see "Mrs. Doubtfire." It starred Robin Williams. He is very clever and talented, and I enjoyed Sally Field. The movie is very funny and quite sensitive in parts, but I have to ask myself if it wouldn't have been just as funny if the profanity and vulgarity had been left off.
Even one of the children in the movie was taught to emit a profanity. That leaves me cold. Also there were many off-color jokes.It looks as if we need a lot of sex and violence to sell a movie these days, but why the profanity and vulgarity? It would have been a great movie without these.
Our local movie critic would do as well to say that there is a lot of profanity and not just state that the film was too long.
I guess I'll go see "Sleepless in Seattle" for the third time and stick to four-star movies. The popularity of "Sleepless" shows that is what the public wants most of the time.
Leah Paul
Salt Lake City