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Private investigator Nicolas Cage plunges into the world of
sadomasochistic pornography when a client asks him to investigate a violent film she found
in her dead husband's safe. Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Christopher
Bauer, Anthony Heald, Catherine Keener and Myra Carter co-star. [2:03]
SEX/NUDITY 9 - Sexual innuendo. A few kisses (including a passionate kiss
between two women). There is one scene of full-frontal nudity: We see a nude man and woman, and very briefly
but distinctly see her nude front and the man's genitalia; they
proceed to lie down on a bed, presumably ready to be taped for a
pornographic film. We briefly see a man and woman moving underneath a blanket; we see his
bare chest when he gets out of the bed. We see a video clip of a bare-breasted woman
inserting something into a man's anus. We hear moaning coming from booths (it's implied
that people are in the booths watching pornographic movies), and we see the back of a
clothed man who appears to be masturbating while watching a pornographic movie. A woman
kneels in front of man; he unzips his pants and then closes the blinds so we don't see
anything else. We see a bare-breasted woman dancing and we briefly see another
bare-breasted woman on a video clip. A few scenes take place in sex shops; we see some
sexual toys and lots of magazine and video covers showing scantily clad or nude women. We
see lots of scantily clad women and lots of men and women wearing revealing leather
sadomasochistic outfits.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - Throughout the movie, we see clips of a film in which a
girl wearing a tank top and underwear is slapped and then stabbed repeatedly by a man
wearing a leather S&M outfit and mask (the camera moves around so the picture is often
blurry and unidentifiable, but we do see blood on her torso and arm). In a few other
films, we see a man's bare butt being slapped by two women in leather outfits, a bound and
gagged woman being hit by a leather-clad man, a woman being choked to death and a woman
hanging by her arms being slapped, punched and then stabbed repeatedly by two shirtless
men (we see lots of blood on her body). A man is sliced with a knife (we see some blood),
another is stabbed (we see a knife handle sticking out of his chest) and another is
stabbed with what looks like a long skewer (we later see him pulling it out of his bloody
stomach). A man ties another's neck and hands to a post, and it's implied that the man
beats him to death with the butt of his gun (we hear the man being hit and later see the
bloody gun and the man's bloody body). A man with tape over his mouth and blood on his
face is tied to an archery target; we later see his dead, bloody body hanging from it. A
man pours gasoline on a corpse and sets it on fire. Lots of threatening with guns and
knives; a man shoots at another several times. A man is shot in the chest with a cross bow
and another is shot in the neck (we see lots of blood pouring from the wound). Twice, a
man is handcuffed to a bed and beaten (we see bloody cuts on his face); we also see a few
scuffles and several men being punched, kicked and knocked down (often we see bloody cuts
on their faces afterwards). Two men scuffle and fall out of a window.
PROFANITY 10 - About 70 F-words, many anatomical references, lots of
scatological references, many mild obscenities and several insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Sadomasochism, pornography, torture, murder, private
investigations, marriage, revenge.
MESSAGE - Sometimes you must take the law into your own hands.
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