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In this "Director's Cut" of the Coen Brothers'
1984 feature film debut, a jealous husband hires a sleazy private investigator to kill his
wife and her lover; however, the scheme quickly goes awry. With Frances McDormand, Dan
Hedaya, John Getz, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams and Deborah Neumann. [1:37]
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Some sexual innuendo. We see a few glimpses of a man and
woman moving underneath sheets, then see them lying in bed the next morning (we see his
bare back and chest when he gets out of bed). A woman wearing a nightgown sits on a bed,
then a man's hand reaches up and pulls her off-screen; in another scene we see a clothed
man and woman talking in bed. A doll hanging from a car's rear-view mirror has breasts
that light up. A man briefly tries to "pick up" a woman in a bar. We see a
shirtless man.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A few people are shot; one is shot in the chest (the
person is seen slumped in a chair several times, each time with more blood soaking the
shirt and more blood dripping from the hand onto the floor, which is seen in close-up a
couple of times; once we see a close-up of blood running from the person's nose); another
person is shot in the back (bloody holes are seen on the front and back of the person's
shirt as the person falls to the ground; later we see the bloody body lying on the floor
again); and another person is shot through a door (we hear the person yell and hit the
floor, then see the body with blood running down the shirt). A person's hand is slammed in
a window, then the hand is stabbed with a knife and pinned to the windowsill (we hear the
person yelling in pain and see a few close-ups of the bloody hand; we also see a bloody
cut on the person's face); the person eventually pulls the knife out. In an intense
extended scene, a wounded person crawls away from a car and is nearly hit by a truck while
another person drags the wounded one, who is spitting up blood, to the side of the road
(at one point it seems as if the wounded person will be hit with a shovel); then we see a
person digging a hole in a field, throwing the wounded person into the ground, and
starting to fill the hole with dirt (we see the person being covered with dirt while
screaming and moving, then see the shovel pounding down the completely filled grave). A
person hits one of the wounded people with a heavy object to ensure the person is dead. A
person drags a bloody body out of a building and into a car (we see the bloody body and
blood on the car seat a few times). A person spits up a lot of blood and then falls to the
floor in what turns out to be a dream. A man grabs a woman from behind, holds his hand
over her mouth, and drags her out of a house as she struggles; she bites his finger,
breaks free, and then kicks him in the crotch (we see him stagger and vomit; in a later
scene we see his finger in a splint). A person tries to shoot another, but the gun is
unloaded; also, in one scene a person is nearly shot, and in another scene a person shots
through a wall several times, presumably trying to hit someone. A man kicks a gun, causing
it to shoot (no one is hit). Someone tries to clean up a puddle of blood with a jacket (we
see blood being rubbed around the floor, blood dripping from the jacket onto the floor,
and blood in the sink as the jacket is rinsed). We see dried blood on the back of a
person's shirt; blood on a man's finger after he touches a blood-soaked car seat, and
blood soaking through a towel lying on top of a blood-stained car seat. A couple of times
we see photos of two corpses lying in bed (blood is visible on the sheets, a wrist, a
shirt, and one corpse's chest).
PROFANITY 6 - About 9 F-words, several anatomical and scatological
references, many mild obscenities, and a racial epithet. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Infidelity, murder, deception, cover-ups, theft,
dysfunctional marriages, private investigations.
MESSAGE - Those who deceive and scheme will be deceived and schemed against
by others.
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