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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language and violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Extended scene of full-frontal male nudity.
  • A woman is given an adult VHS film and we can box art is shown, but explicit details cannot be made out.
  • A man jokingly proposed to have sex with a woman to make babies and mentions his penis.
  • Robin Williams' character appears completely naked in one scene. Male rear and frontal nudity.
  • A man and a woman embrace and he pulls up her blouse. They then begin to make out and the scene ends. Sex is implied.
  • There are a couple close-up shots of a woman's cleavage.
  • Two men are assumed to be naked in the final scene. However, no actual male nudity is shown, only implied.

Violence & Gore

  • A dead body is shown after being shot through the head with a shotgun; very brief but extremely graphic.
  • Bloody images from a massacre are shown on TV. We then hear that a man shot up a bar and then killed himself.
  • A man intends to commit suicide at one point.
  • A man is beaten by a couple of thugs who pour gasoline over him. The man is rescued, but his arm is briefly ablaze later on.
  • A man is stabbed and beat by two young men. He is later shown heavily bandaged in a hospital.

Profanity

  • Faggot is used a few times.
  • Hell and balls are used.
  • The F-word is said 34 times. The s-word said pretty frequently though.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main character rolls and smokes a marijuana cigarette.
  • The main character is seen smoking several times.
  • The main character drinks whisky in the morning. He is shown later to be drinking beer while watching TV and appears to be drunk.
  • Two women smoke and drink together and become slightly drunk.
  • Minor smoking. Some drinking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The first time the ruins where the homeless gather are shown can be frightening.
  • The massacre flashback is a harrowing and disturbing scene.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A woman's face is blown right off by a shotgun and blood and brains gush over her fiance.
  • A flashback to a massacre is shown. A man comes into a bar, and starts firing bullets. One hits a woman in the back of the head, and suddenly her husband's face is covered in her blood and brains as he cries in horror. It's a very harrowing scene.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The assault on a homeless man is frightening.

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