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- Spoilers (1)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- A bit of cleavage. Second scene shows female wearing somewhat revealing outfits. Nothing too bad. Could easily be in a PG-13 movie.
Violence & Gore
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- A man hangs dead from a construction crane.
- Someone runs through what appears to be a puddle of blood.
- We see news clips of violence and protests; and we catch hand-drawn glimpses of the old shah's cruelty to his people (most notably an illustration of a bloodied man being tortured).
- Iranians push down and jostle people and shoot doors (trying to open them).
- We see a man shot in the gut (The camera's some distance away.)
Profanity
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- Most of the profanity is said at the beginning or is hard to hear because of everything going on.
- One scene has a few characters repeatedly say "prick" and "Argo fuck yourself" respectively.
- 25 uses of "fuck," most of which are said in the first 20 minutes, 7 uses of "shit," 5 uses of "hell," 4 uses of "Goddamn," 3 are hard to hear, 4 uses of "prick" and 1 use each of "Jesus," "Jesus Christ," "son of a bitch," "bastard," "dick," "Oh my God," "My God" and "Mother of God."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Everyone smokes throughout the movie. Many also drink. Tony drinks quite a lot as well, and although he never appears drunk, he does at one point take a bottle of whiskey to his room.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Nearly every encounter in the movie has the feel of a tightrope walk, where any false step or errant gust could mean disaster.
- The Scenes in Airport and Market could be very intense for many viewers
- The film details a hostage situation intimately from multiple perspectives, and is accordingly intense.
- American and Iranian symbols are repeatedly defiled (including the flag and an image of "Uncle Sam")
- When Tony and his six Americans meet an Iranian official in a bazaar, their VW bus is jostled and thumped by a crowd of demonstrators. And when an Iranian takes exception to one of the women taking pictures in the bazaar, things get ugly: Locals begin shouting and screaming, and it looks as though the confrontation is just seconds from turning bloody.
- In America, individuals supposedly of Iranian descent are briefly shown being wrathfully beaten.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Americans are blindfolded, threatened with guns and shoved around when the embassy is overrun. Months later, a handful of hostages are taken by their captors and led to the basement, their faces covered with bags. They're lined up in a row as their captors point rifles at them. The order is given to shoot. (The guns turn out to be empty.)
