WOLFS
HEADLINE: Felled by Obscenity-Laced Dialogue
What You Need To Know
WOLFS is a comic thriller starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, who play two lone wolf crime scene “fixers” who find themselves in a pickle when a young man they thought was dead is only stunned and is carrying four bricks of heroin in his backpack. Set in New York City, WOLFS has some really funny moments, and Pitt and Clooney have established a strong chemistry together, but the plot sometimes may be confusing for a few or many viewers and the script has lots of strong foul language and some morally nebulous behavior.
The movie opens with the city’s female district attorney, Margaret, panicked because the young man she picked up at a fancy hotel bar is dead in the bedroom. The young man accidentally fell off the bed and through a glass table while suddenly deciding he should jump up and down on the bed in his underwear.
Margaret calls a phone number that an anonymous VIP gave her should she ever get into such a fix. George Clooney’s character shows up, calms her down and starts preparing the body to take it out of the hotel and dump it somewhere. Suddenly, however, Brad Pitt’s character shows up, and the first man realizes there’s been a hidden camera in the room watching his every move. It turns out the camera was being watched by the fancy hotel’s owner, Pam, who doesn’t want any scandal attached to her investment.
The two men refuse to work together, however. So, Margaret calls the man who gave her the fixer’s phone number. The man orders George Clooney’s character to work with Brad Pitt’s character, and Pam orders Brad Pitt’s character to work with Clooney’s. The two men reluctantly follow their orders.
Complications ensue when the two men discover the dead young man’s backpack has four bricks of heroin in it. They figure some big drug dealer will want to know what happened to his heroin.
More comical, and dangerous, situations follow.
WOLFS has a funny script. Also, after years of working together, Brad Pitt and George Clooney have established really good chemistry together. They’re fun to watch.
However, WOLFS has more than 110 mostly strong obscenities and profanities. There’s also some strong violence and morally nebulous behavior. The foul language in WOLFS is just much too gratuitous, excessive and over-the-top. So, the movie’s unacceptable.
WOLFS opens in a few theaters, then goes quickly to streaming at Apple TV+.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong pagan worldview where the two main characters are crime scene fixers and cleaners for hire (they’re not above working for criminals and gangsters, including getting rid of bodies and even killing people, so there’s some evil associated with their mercenary work, and the mercenary work focuses on doing illegal and immoral things to earn a living), plus a female district attorney is at least partially corrupt in a selfish and hedonistic way, but there is one moral decision made at the end, and a side character is kind of a young and innocent gullible fool, but he’s not above sleeping with a beautiful woman if given the chance
Foul Language
At least 104 mostly strong obscenities (including many “f” words and a few light obscenities), three strong profanities misusing the name of Jesus, two strong GD profanities, four light profanities (such as OMG or OG), and two obscene gestures
Violence
[Some spoilers follow] Strong, sometimes comical violence includes a serious, deadly shootout between the movie’s two stars and three to five gangsters, the movie’s two stars watch some armed thugs enter a drug den were a big shootout occurs off screen, some wounded men exit the building and fall dead, the two stars eventually enter the building where there’s a bunch of dead bodies and lots of blood, two men chase a young man wearing only his socks and underwear around the city, the young man climbs up and down buildings and onto a bridge, the young man crashes through a closed mall and runs throughout the mall as one of the two men chase him, the young man is flipped high into the air and miraculously lands on his feet, a man punches the young man to knock him unconscious, a flashback shows a young man jumping up and down on a hotel bed and accidentally falling and crashing through a glass table
Sex
Female district attorney is shown in bedroom with young man who’s high and who falls onto a glass table and appears to be dead and references to men sleeping with a woman they know, but the issue of whether they did or not seems left up in the air
Nudity
Upper male nudity
Alcohol Use
Some alcohol use
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking, but a young man is carrying four bricks of heroin in his backpack, and he and two other men try to return the drugs to the proper owner, so that the owner doesn’t come hunting them all down;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Criminal activity and at least one betrayal occurs.
