Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide (2020)

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Synopsis

Dir: Max Basch, Malia Scharf. Documentary. An account of the life and career of Kenny Scharf, an artist who rose to prominence in New York City in the 1980s, but whose career took a different path than his friend and contemporary Keith Haring.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, and profanity
• Infrequent descriptions of death, dying, and grief - some verbal detail
• Brief, infrequent female frontal nudity in an artistic context - little detail
• Infrequent depictions of smoking and alcohol use in a documentary context; infrequent references to illegal substance abuse with little detail

Thematic elements

• The lives of artists
• High art and pop culture
• Fame, choice, and circumstance

Classification rationale

Rated PG for nudity and some mature subject matter

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