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- Sex & Nudity (3)
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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (3)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (3)
- Spoilers (4)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Mention of pregnancy and childbirth, including an implication that a woman cannot have children.
- Sylvie burns a library book that appears to be a steamy romance novel belonging to Ruth.
- There is no nudity. A girl wears a sleeveless dress with low cleavage in one scene, but nothing is shown.
Violence & Gore
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- A woman dies by suicide. We see her asking three young boys to help her unstick her car from the mud; she proceeds to drive off a cliff as the boys watch in horror. Her car is seen sinking, but no body is visible.
- It is brought up numerous times that a grandparent died in a ghastly train crash on a bridge in town.
- A woman talks of a friend who is driving into town to see her husband, who is on death row, executed by strangling.
Profanity
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- Multiple uses of "god"/"oh my god", multiple uses of "trashy".
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Alcohol: None
- Drugs: None
- Sylvie buys Ruth cigarettes; Ruth is often seen smoking, as are some other background characters. Posters advertising cigarettes are seen in background shop windows.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The suicide scene is quite upsetting, and may bother some viewers.
- Death, homelessness, transience and family dysfunction are all topics featured in the film.
- A disastrous flood destroys the lower portion of a house; while meant to be comedic, Ruth is upset by the ruining of a tin of her grandmother's family photos.
Spoilers
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Sylvie and Ruth engage in increasingly reckless behaviour, including setting their own house on fire, playing hide and seek on a school night, trying to cross train tracks at night, and rowing to an abandoned island.
- Sylvie's unconventional behaviour upsets her niece, Lucille, who finds it embarrassing. Sylvie engages in hoarding, pet-keeping, sleeping in the park, keeping a fish in her pocket, and other behaviours that indicate mental illness, while played for comedy.
- At one point, Sylvie appears as if she's going to jump from a train bridge. Her nieces find out that this is not the case, but are still visibly disturbed.
- Two little girls are abandoned; a policeman tries to talk to them, but it is later revealed that their mother committed suicide; the girls grow up never knowing this.
