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Swashbuckling adventure set in 18th-century England about a
pair of gentleman bandits who became folk heroes. With Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller,
Ken Stott, Liv Tyler, Michael Gambon and Alan Cumming. [1:35]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Several coarse sexual references and sexual innuendo. There
are a couple of extended sex scenes, clearly showing the participants thrusting and
moaning; they're mostly dressed, although we do see a topless man, some cleavage, and a
woman pulls her skirt up to show-off her leg. There is one scene in a bordello where a man
caresses and kisses a clothed woman. A man attempts to rape a woman -- it is not clear
whether he succeeds or not (we only see her pained face as he's groping her). There's talk
of venereal disease and a man applies ointment on his private parts. A man behaves
effeminately, and it is implied that he is bisexual and perhaps a pederast.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - There's a lot of muck, mud and grime throughout the movie.
There are several shoot-outs, some with people getting wounded or killed and with some
blood. One man is shot at close range and his blood covers the shooter's face. During a
duel a man is shot in the arm (we see the blood on his shirt). We see several hanging
corpses (one, hanging in a cage, looks mummified and another has bugs on it) and we see a
man being hanged: we see his body convulse as the rope snaps. Two men dig up a decomposing
corpse (we see the corpse's face and a worm is crawling on it, although the scene is too
dark to make out any details). One proceeds to cut open the corpse's abdomen (we hear
squishy sounds) and remove a ruby. One of the men swallows the ruby and we later see him
as he's straining to have a bowel movement in order to extract it (he is squatting behind
furniture). Prisoners throw what looks like feces on several men walking below their
cells. A man tortures two men -- on two different instances -- by sticking his hand in
their wounds and pushing on a man's eye with his finger. A man kicks and punches another
man and tries to make him swallow a coin. A man hits a woman repeatedly. Two men are seen
punching each other during a bare-knuckles boxing match; there are a few more fights with
men slapping, hitting and head-butting each other. A man runs another man through with his
sword. During several robberies men are knocked off their horses and a carriage explodes.
We see a presumably dead dog and two roosters getting readied for a cockfight.
PROFANITY 7 - About twenty F-words, several anatomical and scatological
references and several insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The 18th century, stealing from the rich, effeminate men,
lying and cheating.
MESSAGE - You shouldn't cheat your friends. Being a "gentleman"
has to do more with how much integrity you have, not with how much money you have or with
your station in life.
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