Head Above Water (1996) Poster

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and some moments of strong violence
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Sex & Nudity

  • Husband and Wife (George and Nathalie) are passionately kissing and trying to undress each other when they are interrupted by a knock on the door.
  • A woman (Nathalie) in one-piece swimwear goes into ocean for a swim. After she is back, goes under a shower and her nipples are visible through the tight swimwear. We see he in the same swimwear in multiple scenes.
  • Nathalie is wearing a bra and shorts and she kisses Lance under water in the middle of the ocean.

Violence & Gore

  • George falls into the water and lying on a net. He is drunk and not able to move. A chain saw tied to a rope is on free run that cuts a gazebo pillars leading to the sharp cone on top of the gazebo falling and piercing George to death.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Kent is looking at alcohol bottles to pick one, Nathalie says she thought he was supposed to have quit drinking. Kent says his wife left him taking the kid with her justifying why it is OK to drink and adds that he has bounced back many times.
  • Nathalie take a pill (supposedly drug) many times. When she is caught by George, she says she just took one but he show two sheets of pills already consumed and two more sheets full of pills.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Kent is lying naked on the bed face down with a sheet covering some parts of his body. Nathalie tries to wake him up, turns in around and finds he is dead.

Violence & Gore

  • George and Lance are in a boat fishing and they discuss about George squirting Kent Draper (Nathalie's old flame) with lighter fluid.
  • Nathalie drags Kent's dead body to the under ground wine cellar.
  • George presses on the floor door to the wine cellar that it is ajar and we hear a crackling noise which is implied to be Kent's neck breaking.
  • George and Nathalie drag Kent's dead body to storage shed. When the keep the body on the floor, head drops down. George says his neck is broken, Nathalie says it happened when George stepped on the wine cellar door.
  • A lot of incidents when they try to hide and get rid of Kent's dead body. Nothing gore, more of a comedic nature.
  • Nathalie comes with Kent's clothes' that she threw into the ocean and came back to shore so that they can take the clothed body to the police but she notices George pushing bloody drapes into a garbage bag and fresh concrete being laid. It is implied he berried the body under the concrete steps.
  • George shoots Lance, Lance hits George, both are injured. When Lance comes later, George shoots him dead.
  • George ties Nathalie's hands with a rope and binds her legs in a bucket with concrete. She is sitting on a slant plank tied to a rope expected to be buried under water. A chain saw tied to a rope is on free run that cuts the rope and Nathalie falls into the water.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • George empties a lot of capsules with drugs into a water bottle, shakes it and keeps in a cooler expecting Nathalie to drink later and die.

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