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(2013)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong sexual content including graphic nudity, language throughout, a bloody crime scene and brief drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • The nudity is generally brief and the sex scenes are not particularly graphic, but there IS full frontal from both males and females throughout.
  • At a dinner between two couples, a man discusses using an app to find other singles/couples who want to have sex together.
  • they kiss and begin to strip down (breasts, full male frontal shown The sexually excited, fully nude male sits in a chair and watches as the couple begins (implied) sex
  • A sex scene between a male character and a female character shown (breasts are shown throughout most of the scene)
  • A quick sex scene between two characters occurs with little nudity.
  • In a two-couple sex scene, characters are shown walking from the kitchen to the upstairs bedroom completely naked. Female full frontal is seen, as well as an extended shot of Christian walking up the stairs with his penis fully exposed. When they get to the bed, they begin having sex. Kissing between two females and two males shown, as well as breasts and pubic hair. Christians penis is again seen rather briefly.

Violence & Gore

  • We see a man holding a knife while wearing gloves and moments later we see him covered in blood (it is implied that he murdered a woman); a second man discovers the dead woman covered in a blood and we see stab wounds and blood splashes on her shirt, chest, face and legs (the woman is obviously dead).
  • A man grabs another man by the neck and throws him against a car, then angrily shouts at him, grabs his phone and throws it on the ground, smashing it and shoves the other man away.
  • A man grabs a woman's hand and shoves her to the ground while screaming in her face and threatening to beat her up while the woman cries.
  • A man threatens a woman, telling her that if she ever sees a man again, he will kill the man.
  • A woman shouts angrily at a man to leave.
  • A woman shouts at a man.
  • A woman asks another woman about details about a woman's murder and we hear the woman go into detail about how a knife had been found in another person's car.
  • A woman remarks that a movie is a "slasher film."
  • A man makes a snide remark that he is too busy to watch "a bunch of kids get tortured and killed."

Profanity

  • About 68 F-words and its derivatives, 21 sexual references, 8 scatological terms, 10 anatomical terms, 7 mild obscenities, 3 religious profanities (GD) and 5 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh my God, Jesus, swear to God).
  • Name-calling (clueless, moron, loser actor, liar, sick fuck, psycho, moron, creep, sick and sick little boy.)

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man snorts cocaine and rubs some cocaine on his gums.
  • A woman makes a snide remark that she was "pretty wasted" during a few years of her life.
  • A woman tells another woman that a man had drugged her and forced her to have group sex.
  • A woman asks a man if he had drugged another woman and he says no.
  • A man confronts a woman and tells her that he knows that she had told people that she was given drugs by him.
  • A man accuses a woman of being "a drug addict."
  • We see men and women drinking wine at a restaurant.
  • A woman is seen drinking a cocktail.
  • A man pours shots of liquor for another man and himself then drinks a shot of liquor.
  • Men and women drink wine.
  • A woman smokes a cigarette.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some intense yelling and shoving. Nothing major.

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