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(1997)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for intense depiction of urban disaster and related injuries
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • The outline of Dr. Barnes' nipples are visible through her top in several scenes in the final act.
  • In one scene, two male bodybuilders are shown shirtless on a billboard. Their bare upper body is clearly visible (~10 seconds).
  • In one scene, two males are shown shirtless while playing a game on the beach, and a female is shown wearing a bikini while lying on her belly. The characters' bare bodies are clearly visible (~5 seconds).
  • In one scene, a male is shown shirtless while playing basketball. His bare upper body is clearly visible (~5 seconds).
  • There is a Billboard of a woman in lingerie and cleavage is very Prominent.

Violence & Gore

  • Because the film is documenting the uncontrollable events of destruction in nature, many people are killed. Examples include: Stan jumping into the stream of lava from the train car and sinking down into it as he dies
  • The badly charred side of a public worker's face is shown after he is burned
  • Two fireman are swept away in a burning/melting truck into a stream of lava.
  • A woman falls in the crack of the earth during the earthquake.
  • A teenage daughters pants catch on fire but her father quickly puts it out
  • A man get stuck in the rubble and his partner stays by his side and they get blown up by the detonation of the building blowing up.
  • An injured man catches fire from the burning hose as the firefighters swing the ladder over to safety before putting the fire out.
  • Some of these depictions of death may appear frightening.

Profanity

  • Has at least two uses of gd.
  • Plenty uses of "Damn", "Hell", "Ass", "shit". Some milder profanity. And 2 barely-audible uses of "fuck"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man chews multiple pieces of nicotine gum. A man lights up and smokes a cigarette.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The volcano scenes are very intense.
  • Some deaths in the film are quite disturbing.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • One death in particular could be considered the most disturbing. As Stan rescues a train driver, Stan sacrifices himself by jumping into a pool of lava, then throws the train driver over the lava. As this happens, Stan sinks down and gets melted.
  • one of the scientists stands over something and gets melted by lava shooting upward

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