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Sex & Nudity
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- There's a scene of a young man and woman visibly having sex, with bodies rising and breathing hard. No nudity.
- At one point while a woman is waitressing, a man revoltingly walks up to her and licks her neck.
- When a woman visits a website created by and for people with severe eating disorders, she finds a picture of a grotesquely skinny woman, with a tiny upper body completely undressed.
- It's revealed later that the mother in the family is having an affair.
Violence & Gore
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- None
Profanity
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- There are some crude word usages and very upsetting verbal content about the trauma of eating disorders
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A young woman takes a lethal overdose. We see her lying unconscious afterwards and the panic and sorrow of her family.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- There's no violence, but definitely intense scenes and subject matter. There are many troubling aspects of the two sisters' ideas of their bodies; Frannie sleeps with guys she doesn't know very well and berates herself harshly for eating badly. Shelly wanders through a great deal of the film with sullen, dark eyes and an overly skinny body, sometimes binge eating and then violently vomiting.
- When Shelly goes to a psychiatric ward for food issues, several other mentally challenged and troubled girls are there. One thin, rude and intense-looking woman who's visibly had a rough life is revealed to be in her early thirties (she looks like a mistreated twenty-something); she, and some of the other women, speak in ways that reveal them to be mentally absent. At one point Frannie goes to a severely disturbing website that viciously feeds on the mental trauma of anorexic people; the site shows disturbing images and comments from very sick people ("we are pigs fasting", "I want to be the skeleton in my doctor's closet", etc).
- **SPOILERS** One of the most troubling scenes shows Frannie and her parents find Shelly dying on her bed from a drug overdose. The doctors tell them she can never be revived and the family's pain is palpable *END SPOILERS*
- While this film is not a tragedy, there are very serious issues covered. I'd give it a PG-13 rating overall.
