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MPAA Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Man kisses woman while they're sitting on a couch in his apartment. He immediately unzips her dress. We next see her walking nude around the apartment while he sits in bed watching, obviously post coital. Nudity includes bare-chested male, female full frontal and full rear nudity.
  • In a sauna, man is undressing a prostitute, exposing her bare breasts. He fondles her breasts but then he becomes violent. It later is reported that he also raped her.
  • A sex room is briefly seen where to a naked man and woman sit side-by-side; nudity shows bare breasts and bare-chested male. In a bank, it is obvious employees have busy sex lives with love affairs and dating, including a married man carrying on a love affair with a single woman.
  • Man brings woman up to his apartment after a party. While standing, they kiss and he unzips her gown. They lay back onto a couch but are interrupted. Nudity shows bare breast.

Violence & Gore

  • A man twists a woman's nipple hard, then punches her repeatedly, and, when she is on the ground, he puts his foot on her head. She is shown with some blood on her face/body.

Profanity

  • Some coarse language, fuck x6, shit x1, damn x7, asshole x1, Jesus x2.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Smoking, drinking and talk of pot.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The whole movie is very intense; not only in violence, but in the psychotic nature of Christopher Plummer's character.

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Violence & Gore

  • A man takes a woman and tries to drown her in a fish tank, he then breaks the glass and cuts her neck with the broken glass. This is shown for a few seconds, with some blood on the glass and in the fish tank. Later shots show the woman was decapitated.
  • At the end, two men are shot. The impacts are not shown, but much blood is shown seeping from the wounds.

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