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Robert De Niro plays a homophobic retired security guard who
takes singing lessons from a drag queen (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
after suffering a serious stroke. Also with Barry Miller, Wanda De
Jesus, Skipp Sudduth, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Wilson Jermaine Heredia,
Nashom Benjamin, Christopher Bauer and Scott Cooper. [1:51]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Lots of graphic sexual innuendo and
talk, including references to fellatio and prostitution. Two
obviously post-coitus scenes: in one, we see a woman in bed and in
the other we see a man and woman in bed (no nudity is visible). We
see dancers in cleavage-revealing tops, a scantily clad woman in a
phone-sex commercial and a cake in the shape of a woman's breasts.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - Gunfire is exchanged in one scene;
two people are killed but we don't see them being shot. A man is
shot in the shoulder (we later see the wound covered with a
slightly bloody bandage) and a man is stabbed in the leg and then
shot (he dies). A man pierces another's foot with a high heel and
later stabs him in the head with it (it's implied that the man is
killed). A man collapses during a shoot-out; we think he's been
shot but later learn he's had a stroke. Men kill a pet bird, some
men repeatedly punch and kick a man, a man is restrained by
several others and repeatedly punched in the stomach and a man is
punched in the nose (it gets slightly bloody). A man slams
another's head into the floor, a woman kicks a man, a man drops a
flower pot on another's head, two men fall down a staircase while
scuffling and a man knocks another down some steps with a
wheelchair. Several men chase a woman and hold her against a wall
and two groups of men scuffle. Many instances of threatening with
guns and a few people are nearly shot; also, a man holds a gun to
his own head.
PROFANITY 10 - More than 150 F-words, lots of
anatomical references, lots of scatological references, several
mild obscenities, lots of insults and name-calling. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Stroke victims, drag queens, homophobia,
homosexuality, intolerance and tolerance, drug dealers, drug use,
prostitution, infidelity, murder, abuse, suicidal thoughts.
MESSAGE - Everyone deserves a second chance; we often
fear and even hate what we don't know or don't understand.
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