New films from a family perspective

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A guide to movies from a family perspective:"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Teens and above.-- What you should know: Martin Lawrence plays a successful TV-talk-show host who returns home for his parents' 50th anniversary with his diva fiancee and young son in tow. Old wounds, resentments and crushes resurface. Cast also includes James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery and Joy Bryant.-- Language: One f-word and a steady stream of milder curses along with a few uses of the n-word.-- Sexual situations and nudity: The sequences include Lawrence, whose arms are tied to the bed, and his fiancee engaging in vigorous sex, although that is conveyed through facial close-ups. Jokes also are made about a pair of men's pants that are indecently tight, an amorous couple playing "cowboy and Indian" and a woman's lusty appetite.-- Violence/scary situations: In a flashback, a father takes off his belt and uses it (you hear one crack) on his son. Also, played for laughs, are scenes with fisticuffs, an obstacle-course competition that turns physical and nasty, a softball that smacks a woman in the forehead and a skunk that finds a human target.-- Drug or alcohol use: Adults consume beer, champagne and other alcoholic drinks. A comic bit about selling drugs plays with the closing credits."Fool's Gold"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Teens and above.-- What you should know: Deep-sea diver Matthew McConaughey teams up with disaffected wife Kate Hudson and billionaire yachtsman Donald Sutherland to find a Spanish shipwreck's treasure.-- Language: Mild profanity here and there.-- Sexual situations and nudity: Brief topless female (and constant topless male) nudity, plus some discussion of sex but only one (clothed) make-out scene.-- Violence/scary situations: Fighting with fists, knives and other weapons including one gunfight; several chase-and-escape sequences in which the heroes are nearly drowned; a fire, explosion and sinking of a boat.-- Drug or alcohol use: Lots of drinking in bars, but no drugs."The Eye"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Teens and older.-- What you should know: Jessica Alba plays a concert violinist who was blinded in a firecracker accident at age 5. She has double corneal transplants but begins to see dead people and other frightening images.-- Language: Nothing objectionable.-- Sexual situations and nudity: Alba is shown behind the frosted glass of a shower stall.-- Violence/scary situations: Both, including a hanging, fatal fires and explosions, a child who commits suicide by falling from a window, a hit-and-run accident, other people in peril, the appearance of shadowy figures of death who escort those who passed away or are about to die, and bloody eyes and other disturbing images.-- Drug or alcohol use: Alba takes a swig of what appears to be whiskey to steady her nerves."Over Her Dead Body"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Teens and up.-- What you should know: Eva Longoria Parker, best known as Gabrielle Solis on "Desperate Housewives," stars in this romantic comedy as a woman killed in an accident on her wedding day. She returns, as a ghost, to haunt the psychic her fiance consults and then dates. The cast also includes Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs and Lindsay Sloane.-- Language: At least a half-dozen mild expletives, plus a couple with "God" attached.-- Sexual situations and nudity: A partially naked woman runs out of a shower. She wraps a towel around her waist but uses soap suds and her arms to cover her breasts. A couple is shown in bed, kissing. A joke is made about oral sex.-- Violence/scary situations: The bride-to-be is killed by an ice sculpture that tumbles off a truck, although you don't see it happen. A man catches his sleeve on fire while cooking, but isn't injured. A dessert goes up in flames.-- Drug or alcohol use: Adults drink beer or other alcoholic beverages.(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)