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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language throughout, some sexual content and brief drug material.
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A few moderate sex scenes which involve removing clothing, passionate kissing, panting and thrusting with no explicit nudity.
  • Sex scenes are explicit but have no nudity; characters strip down to underwear. The main couple has sex in different places and talks about "f--king," "wanting" each other, showing "self-control," and having "happy, consensual sex" full of "love and trust." There's discussion of affairs, intimacy, and people being "hot" or a "ten."
  • Strong scenes of sex feature thrusting detail. There are also verbal references to sexual activity and to adultery.

Violence & Gore

  • A man knocks over a child.
  • References to past domestic violence involving a couple.
  • A man deliberately starts a house fire in a fit of drunken rage.
  • A man punches a wall and is seen with bruised knuckles.
  • A man attacks another person by pushing and shoving.
  • Men punch each other in a boxing ring.
  • Fights break out, a character has flashbacks to being pushed around by his stepdad as a little boy and remembers his mom getting beaten, a man sets a house on fire, a woman finds a family member dead of a drug overdose and experiences grief.
  • There are visual and verbal references to domestic abuse, including a flashback sequence in which a young boy is pushed to the floor by his father. There are also scenes of moderate violence, including a man striking another across the face.

Profanity

  • 58 uses of "fuck", also 13 uses of "shit" as well as 3 "hell," 1 "bitch," 1 "prick," 1 "Jesus Christ," and 1 "God."
  • There is frequent strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('bitch', 'shit', 'bloody', 'bullshit', 'piss', 'Jesus 'hell', 'God' and 'damn').

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A dead body of a man who died of a heroin overdose and drug paraphernalia are visible.
  • A main character drinks heavily and is frequently intoxicated. He drinks to manage stress and acts out while he's drunk.
  • There are occasional scenes with background characters smoking cigarettes.
  • A young woman finds her father dead from a heroin overdose; a tourniquet is shown around his arm and other paraphernalia is visible nearby. There are also scenes of joint smoking at a party and verbal references to such activities.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Dead bodies are seen of people who have overdosed with graphic descriptions.
  • Occasional scenes of verbal fighting and abuse.
  • There are scenes of emotional upset, including those in which characters are bereaved. There are also verbal references to mental health and miscarriage but these are handled sensitively.

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