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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong sexuality, violence and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man and woman are taking a bubble bath. The woman's bare breasts are fully exposed.
  • In one scene, a woman wears only an apron. When she turns around, her buttocks are fully visible.
  • A man and woman sit down to eat dinner. The woman is naked and her breasts are visible. She suggestively tells the man that she has prepared something else if he is not hungry for what she has cooked. In the next scene, the two have sex in the shower and are shown naked from the waist up.
  • The two main characters are naked in a bathtub, he drives a battery-driven tank over her belly before it slips into the water. Her breasts are seen.
  • The two main characters have sex in a scene that is almost 4 minutes long.
  • A passionate scene between two women features breast nudity.
  • In the opening sequence, a woman puts a revolver in her mouth and briefly mimics oral sex on it.
  • Bruce kisses Jane and she takes off her clothes and becomes fully naked. Her buttocks and breasts are visible. Then they jump in a pool and she takes off his shorts and his buttocks and penis are momentarily visible. They proceed to kiss each other underwater. Later Bruce kisses her breasts and legs (pubic hair clearly visible) underwater.
  • Dr. Capa and Rose make love in a shower with Rose facing the audience and having her breasts massaged. She turns to face him and he slides his hands down her back. Bill enters her again and they move in rhythm until their climax.
  • One of the patients in the film had been sexually molested at a young age, as had his older brother. Another patient is a sado-masochist and creates nude paintings in his spare time.
  • Two women kiss and caress each other in a couple of scenes.
  • From a distance we see a woman's butt on a helicopter.

Violence & Gore

  • There's a lengthy car chase in which one car tries to take out another car. The driver rams into his target's back, and the two continue to drive until one smashes into a truck, but keeps going. The target rams him a few times, and he crashes into a car's open door and a cart, ripping the door off. He then rams his side into a truck carrying several cars, and a few cars fall off onto the street, causing some crashes.
  • A woman accidentally rams her car into another car's back on a road.
  • A car is pushed off of a parking garage.
  • 12+ age rating, like in France.
  • A man has his hands nailed to a wall using a nail gun.
  • A man is stabbed repeatedly in his office, and gets impaled in a broken window. This is very graphic and intense.
  • A man is strangled by an unseen assailant. He is later seen hanging from a conveyor belt and it's evident that he has bled to death. Sudden and startling.
  • A man attacks a couple with a nail gun.
  • A woman has been beaten almost to a bloody pulp (there are bloody wounds all over her back and neck), and her hands are literally nailed to a chair.
  • The film opens with a suicide: a woman jumps off a building. The landing is shown in a graphic close-up, and then she is shown lying in a pool of bright red blood, visible even from a high floor on a multilevel building. This scene is crucial to the film's plot as it explains how the main character (the woman's shrink) lost his color vision - this event traumatizes him to the point where he can no longer see red for the majority of the film.

Profanity

  • several adult jokes but many many adult jokes in the director's cut
  • Language is present throughout the film. A man calls a woman a 'promiscuous cunt'.
  • "Fuck" is used 45 times

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some of the characters smoke. One character admits to having used illicit drugs in the past.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In one scene a Rattlesnake jumps out of a mailbox almost biting a man.
  • The murder scenes are all very intense with an eerie build up feeling.
  • The twist at the end (listed under Sex & Nudity) may shock some.
  • Disturbing revelations and bizarre and sometimes violent outbursts among patients at a weekly therapy group.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A patient confesses to wanting to transition into a female. Later, however, it's revealed that this patient is a woman in disguise, posing as her brother.
  • A person reveals a past of physical and sexual abuse from a sibling.

Violence & Gore

  • In the final scene, the lead female character attacks the killer with a nail gun. He comes after her, and she drives one more nail through his forehead, killing him instantly.

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