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(2002)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language, some violence and brief nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man says a crude joke. "Who has two thumbs and loves blowjobs? Me."
  • A teenage girl tries to seduce a man by crossing her legs and pulling up her skirt to reveal her lower thighs. However, he does not buy into it.
  • It is strongly suggested that an adult male was sexually involved with a teenage girl
  • Rachel ends up in Detective Dormer's bed following a scene where both characters have a talk with one another in the room. It's possible the two may have had offscreen sex or that they just shared a bed together. Rachel is not naked once she appears on the bed while asleep.
  • Within the first few minutes, topless autopsy photos of the 17 year old victim are shown twice.
  • A female victim's nude body is shown on an autopsy table. Left breast, nipple, and pubic hair can be seen. Crime scene photos show the female murder victim. No frontal nudity.

Violence & Gore

  • A man describes the murder of a young boy in graphic detail (nothing is shown)
  • A man is shot in the abdomen (we see blood on his mouth, he falls into water and slowly sinks), another man is shot in the abdomen (he grimaces and collapses and we see some blood on his face), and a man is shot in the leg and falls to the ground.
  • Two men struggle, one is punched and kicked repeatedly while lying on the ground, and one is hit in the head with a glass jar.
  • We see a dead man lying on an autopsy table being wrapped by paper sheets. There are autopsy photos of a woman with a very bruised and battered face and body.
  • A man and woman are trapped in a shack while another man shoots a shotgun into the structure, repeatedly.
  • A man is chased through a crowd, over a fence, across a rooftop, along a pier and across floating timbers; one man falls through the timbers and is trapped under water for some time struggling to find a way out.
  • What looks like blood seeping into magnified cloth fibers is seen repeatedly, we see a bloody stain on a shirt sleeve, blood drips on some cloth and we see a dropper full of blood, a woman has a bloody nose and mouth, and we see a young woman's bloody mouth and nose (the blood seems to be dried).
  • A man shoves another man, pins him against a pole by pressing on his neck, and then holds a gun to his head.
  • A man plays chicken with an oncoming truck and swerves at the last moment.
  • A man has an old scar on his neck and we hear that he was cut with a knife.
  • A man retrieves a slug from a gun by firing it into an already dead dog and digging the bullet out with his penknife. We briefly see a bloody hole, and the sound adds to the effect (we see bloody rubber gloves and hear squishy sounds).
  • There are very quick flashes of a young woman being hit hard in the face and we hear her scream.
  • A man is shot in the chest: we see this scene several times from different angles and with different amounts of blood and detail (some show the man's bloody face, some show a spurt of blood when he is hit by the bullet.

Profanity

  • 4 uses of pr*ck
  • 28 uses of the f-word in its various forms.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Teenagers are smoking all types of medium they could earn and possess (Smoke, bong, moof, weed, marijuana, mescaline and all types of puff).
  • Two teens smoke. The cops have a round of drinks at the bar after "solving" the murder.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scene in the fog with the killer could be intense.
  • Some suspenseful scenes.
  • The finale of the film is very intense.

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Violence & Gore

  • Extreme closeup shots linger on the victim's bruised and battered body. Quick flashbacks, some almost subliminal in length, show her being beaten and her corpse cleaned by Finch.
  • A man accidentally shoots another man. He dies from his wound. There is a trickle of blood down his cheek.
  • A man has flashbacks of the accidental shooting, blood is seen spurting briefly.
  • The final scene is built up with intensity. Two men have a brutal fight including choking and smashing each others heads off objects. A man grabs a shotgun but is shot by another man. A large visible blood spray and blood mist is seen. He then shoots the first man in the stomach. Some blood, but no wound is explicitly shown.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A driver threatens the teenage passenger's life by swerving in front of a semi-truck and waiting until the last second to veer away.
  • An exhausted driver begins to fall asleep at the wheel and jolts awake when they see a truck coming towards them, swerving the vehicle and skidding a long distance on the rainy road. Nobody is injured.

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