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(2017)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for suggestive content and drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • In one scene while a caregiver attempts to change a catheter. No nudity is shown.
  • Around 20 minutes into the movie, the cripple older guy, has a flashback of having sex with wife. She is seen moving on top of him. Soft moaning.
  • Two prostitutes are brought to a room with the two main characters. One woman is rubbing a man's shoulders. The other woman is rubbing the older guy's ears. That's it.

Violence & Gore

  • No physical harm. A man has a seizure and starts to foam at the mouth. Angry words between people in a conversation. A man has an accident involving a restaurant waiter which results in him spilling hot coffee onto his lap. A man describes his life story in how he became disabled through a paragliding accident. Nothing else shown and extremely mild at worse.

Profanity

  • A man inserts a catheter into another man. "Penis" is used several times during the scene as the insertion process is described in detail. Involuntary erection is alluded to though nothing is shown. Played for awkward comedic effect.
  • Profanity of different degrees is heard throughout the whole movie
  • 7 uses of damn, 5 uses of hell, 6 uses of shit, 7 uses of ass, 1 use of bitch, 2 uses of GD.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Two men get high on marijuana before entering a restaurant.
  • Two scenes of smoking an illegal substance where both persons are wide eyed and high. Drug references in relation to an app being created on a phone. A few scenes where wine / champaign is drunk in a restaurant.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man starts gurgling and choking before being given oxygen. A man starts frothing at the mouth feigning a seizure.

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