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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (8)
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- Spoilers (3)
Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for pervasive language, some sexual material and drug use |
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Sex & Nudity
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- A man visits a strip-club but no actual nudity is seen. Women dancing and showing their butts in thongs are visible.
- A boy and a seemingly older girl share a few tender moments, including a few kisses.
- A man comments on and makes fun of the size of a young boy's penis. He goes on about how the kid couldn't even "f**k himself" with it.
- A man wears a t-shirt with several pictures of topless women.
- A man stands naked for a physical exam. He's shown covering his privates.
- A man makes a sexually vulgar threat towards a man to get him to stay away from his son.
- Young Otis is mostly seen shirtless.
Violence & Gore
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- The father occasionally hits his son.
- A man is thrown into a pool.
- There is a car crash in the beginning of the movie. Blood is shown on the drivers face and some blood is shown on the ground.
Profanity
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- Constant swearing most said by James and Otis (young).
- 176 uses of "fuck", 41 uses of "shit". "Damn," "damnit," "piss," "hell," "bitch" and "pussy" are each heard once or twice each, and the n-word is also heard three times.
- Otis's dad makes several crude comments about sex, male anatomy, and pornography
- Otis (young) cusses a lot in this film. He's cursing because it portrays how much he was troubled and angry when he was younger. His father forces him to be in a show (based on a real show that Shia was actually in) for money and fame.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Marijuana is smoked a few times.
- Frequent cigarette smoking, including by a minor.
- Otis's father grows an entire crop of marijuana on the side of the freeway and shows it to his son. Both of them are shown smoking it.
- As an adult, Otis lands in rehab after he wrecks his car and gets arrested for being drunk and disorderly.
- A man smokes crack in a bathroom.
- A man mentions that in the past he did so much cocaine that his nose stopped working. So he started to shoot in his arm with a needle.
- The main character Otis is an alcoholic.
- The main theme of this movie is alcoholism and drug addiction.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- This movie is very depressing and sad in most parts as it revolves around a child actor living in a small motel with his abusive father who is often a lose cannon and is usually up in people's facing harassing them. There are scenes where he hits his son. He forces his son to be in a show so he can make money. It's based on Shia Labeoufs early life as an actor.
- This movie is very emotionally intense
- The film is very emotional, intense and serious. There are some scenes that are cheerful.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Otis's father is a registered sex offender. It is said that he attempted to rape a woman.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- A man claims that his mother's girlfriend physically abused him as a child. He also says that his mother died when she fell out of window onto the freeway
- James Lort is very abusive to his son. He slaps him, cusses at him and forces him to be in a show just for the money. It's very realistic and very sad because some kids grow up with abusive and alcoholic dads who hurt them.
