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(1999)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong language, drug use, sexuality and some violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A character passes an adult video for a few seconds while flipping channels. Brief nudity, woman lying on bed girating, breasts seen.
  • A sex guru teaches a misogynistic course to men on how to manipulate women. Some sexual references, nothing graphic.
  • Two sex scenes are shown in this movie, (both are in the first ten minutes). One has graphic bouncing breast nudity during explicit thrusting.
  • A man and woman have anal sex fully clothed. This scene is very brief. (First 10 minutes of the movie)
  • A woman is briefly shown showering (brief views of her breasts behind fogged up glass, not as indistinct as could have been, for about five seconds.

Violence & Gore

  • It is implied that a dog died. The body is shown for a couple of seconds.
  • Three men are hung in the opening scene.
  • A man falls from a height to the ground, injuring and bloodying his nose and mouth.
  • A man shoots himself in the mouth. We see a flash of light and blood spray onto a wall behind him.
  • A teenage boy jumps off of a tall building. As he passes a window, a woman fires a gun, shooting the boy in the stomach. We see a large, bloody wound in his abdomen for a brief moment.
  • A woman overdoses on pills and falls unconscious. She is taken in an ambulance which then crashes (no injuries are visible). She is later seen alive and seemingly unharmed.
  • A man jumps onto another man and begins beating him. He is pulled off, and neither man is injured.

Profanity

  • Around 190 uses of "fuck".
  • An African-American boy says the "N" word while he raps to a police officer, who says "I don't need to hear that word."
  • Numerous uses of asshole, cocksucker, motherf*cking,
  • 3 uses of 'Jesus Christ' as a cuss word, 1 of which by a girl in early teens; 2 of 'Jesus'; 4 or 5 of 'God' (of which 3 by same character in quick succession); 1 use of 'f*cking hell'; 20+ uses of 'goddamn' by same character one after the other.
  • A ton of uses of "fuck" and "shit". One or two uses of "cunt".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A woman is a cocaine addict and is shown snorting cocaine many times throughout the movie.
  • A man is seen drinking alcohol on several occasions, implying he is an alcoholic.
  • A subplot takes place almost entirely in a bar, and a man is seen very intoxicated.
  • A man dying of cancer is given drugs such as morphine throughout the film.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Jimmy collapses on the set of his TV show (after we already know that he has a terminal illness).
  • An unseen shooter opens fire on Kurring who then loses his gun and frantically looks for it.
  • Suicide is a main theme in the movie.
  • besides of having some goofy moments the film is very emotionally challenging
  • The overall setting and mood of despondent people screaming and letting lose with profanity may be unsettling to some viewers.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A character is very briefly seen flipping through a Hustler magazine. None of the contents are focussed on specifically. Comically, it turns out that this character is not interested in any of the contents but is looking for an advert in order to find contact details for someone they are trying to reach.
  • A character is implied to have been molested by her father.

Violence & Gore

  • Most of the violence is at the beginning of the film.
  • Thousands of frogs rain from the sky. There is some blood on their bodies.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A woman uses many prescription medications and at one point overdoes purposely on them.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Kurring responds to a call of a disturbance at a woman's house. Although she denies anything being wrong, he starts to look through her house, while she repeatedly curses at him. He eventually finds a dead body in her closet.
  • Distraught at her life, Linda sits in a closed garage in a parked car, nearly committing suicide and then tries again with pills and booze, while Jimmy later tries to kill himself with a gun.
  • A scene where a literal rainstorm of frogs is falling from the sky and pummeling anything in their path may be a bit unsettling for some viewers.

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