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In Martin Scorsese's latest New York drama, Nicolas
Cage plays an ambulance driver on the all-night "graveyard" shift. After five
years on the job, he finds himself both numbed and haunted by the horrors of such
depressing work. With Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc
Anthony, Bart DeFinna, Mary Beth Hurt and Aida Turturro. [2:00]
SEX/NUDITY 4 - We see a man lying in bed with a woman (both are completely
clothed). A man's injury looks like an erect metal phallus when he's lying on a
stretcher. In a blurry shot taken from a distance, we see the side of a man who appears to
be naked (we also see a glimpse of what might be pubic hair). We see a man lying on the
street with his pants down to his thighs (the side of his bare hip and upper thigh are
visible), a man wearing underwear while lying in bed, two naked newborn babies, a few
scantily-clad prostitutes and a few shirtless men.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - A man falls off a balcony and lands on a wrought iron
fence; one of the posts impales his midsection. A man is shot in the chest and is seen
lying in a puddle of blood (his shirt is also drenched with blood); his shirt is taken off
and we see the bloody bullet wound. A man's face and hair are covered with blood
after he repeatedly cuts himself with a broken bottle (we don't see him actually cut
himself); he shakes his head and splatters blood onto others. We see a man pale and
unconscious from a drug overdose. A man performs euthanasia by taking an unconscious man
off life-support. A heart-attack victim is revived by being shocked with defibrillator
paddles. We see two bloody newborn babies; one looks dead and ends up dying. An
anti-abortion protestor holds a fake fetus covered with blood. In two different scenes, we
see a bloody corpse lying in a pool of blood; we also see two non-bloody corpses in a
hospital. We see scars on the wrists of a person who tried to commit suicide. Numerous
shots of people in an emergency room, some of whom are a bit bloody and in pain; also, a
few flashback scenes of dead people. We see a legless man crawling across a street. A man
beats another man with a baseball bat and two men smash car windows with baseball bats. A
few scuffles. An ambulance crashes into another car and flips over but no one is seriously
hurt (one man cuts on his forehead).
PROFANITY 8 - About 33 F-words, a few anatomical references, several
scatological references and some mild obscenities and insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Suicide, abortion, childbirth, prostitution, paramedics,
trauma, hospitals, death, drugs, depression, alcoholism, insomnia, madness.
MESSAGE - We need to offer and accept sympathy, because life is often way
too unpleasant without it.
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