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(2017)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A college age is girl is having her hair washed, sitting up in a bath tub, completely naked. Her breasts can be clearly seen for several seconds.
  • Female frontal nudity without the genitals are seen.
  • Two girls are kissing passionately and nipple of one of them is seen.
  • Kissing and caressing the genitals between two girls is shown.

Violence & Gore

  • Man is burned alive

Profanity

  • Almost none through most of the film. In English subtitles, "sh*t" is used several times. In conversations where one person tries to understand another's religious practice, "Jesus" is paired with various profanities.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Brief alcohol use, brief drunkenness. A college student decides to try alcohol and cigarettes for the first time. She is tricked into thinking a cigarette contains marijuana and reacts as though high. There is brief discussion of the need for moderation.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman has seizures several times, trembling and falling to the floor/ground.
  • A woman seems about to drown on a couple of occasions.
  • A baby disappears twice, and the parents search frantically for him.
  • A man and woman drug a younger woman, whom by implication they intend to kill.
  • A woman appears to have been hit by glass from a shattered window, and perhaps been thrown outside.
  • A woman's realization that she has, mostly inadvertently, harmed others, causes some intense emotional scenes.
  • Multiple scenes of flashing lights.

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Violence & Gore

  • A man suddenly catches on fire while standing in a boat. A man falls into and under water but when his head emerges it catches on fire again until he seems to drown completely

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man points a rifle at the back of the head of a little girl. She does not see him do this. Nothing happens.
  • Thelma's little brother disappears and is seen drowned beneath the ice of a frozen-over lake.

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