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Brad Pitt and Edward Norton create a bare-fisted boxing
club that evolves into a cult-like organization. Also with Helena Bonham Carter, Meat
Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier, Eion Bailey, Ezra Buzzington, Richmond Arquette, Joel
Bissonnette, Stuart Blumberg, Peter Iacangelo, Joon B. Kim, Holt McCallany, Evan Mirand
and Rachel Singer. [2:19]
SEX/NUDITY 7 - Several instances of sexual innuendo (including references to
masturbation and pornographic movies). We hear but don't see two people moaning and
yelling while having intercourse for an extended period of time; we also see several used
condoms floating in a toilet and a phallic sexual toy. We see some still-frames of a man
and woman in sexual positions and a close up of a woman grabbing a man's crotch from
behind (he's wearing boxer shorts). A man feels a woman's bare breast to check
for lumps (we see the top of her bare breast) and they kiss briefly afterwards. We see a
nude man's torso (some pubic hair is visible), full-frontal male nudity for a
split-second (it's a single frame that's been spliced into the movie and has no
context within the scene it interrupts), a still-frame of a woman's bare breasts and
torso, two advertisements featuring a nude male's posterior, a man's bare back
as he's bathing and lots of shirtless men. A man with testicular cancer has breasts
due to his medication.
VIOLENCE/GORE 10 - We see a slow-motion scene of a man shooting himself in
the mouth (the butt of the gun is in his mouth and the bullet appears to exit through his
cheek); we see lots of blood on his cheek, neck and clothing. In an extended scene a man
pours chemicals onto the back of another's hand and holds his wrist as the skin
bubbles and bleeds and the man writhes in pain; in a later scene we see the scar on his
hand, and we also see similar scars on a couple of other men's hands. About 15 scenes
of men involved in bare-fisted boxing matches: they punch each other in the face, ears and
stomach and are sometimes thrown to the ground or against a wall; often they're
surrounded by a group of cheering men. The participants in these fights nearly always have
at least one very bloody facial cut or have blood on their clothing; we see many men with
black eyes, bruised faces, bloody mouths and bandages on their faces. During two of these
fights a man's head is beaten on the ground repeatedly and another man's face is
punched repeatedly until his face is covered in blood and nearly unrecognizable (he's
later seen with a severely bruised, swollen face). A man is thrown against a ticket booth
and a car, thrown down a staircase and kicked; in another scene, a man punches himself and
throws himself onto a coffee table and into a bookcase (his face and clothing get very
bloody). A man imagines the plane he's flying on is hit by another and we see many
passengers being sucked out of the plane. A man who was shot in the head and killed is
seen lying on a table (we see his very bloody head and clothing). A man's forehead is
stitched after a fight (we don't see the wound, but we see the doctor's hand
sewing it up). We see a crashed car and a burnt car; men graphically (and jokingly)
describe how the passengers were killed and burned to death. A car runs off the road and
rolls down a hill (we see the passengers being thrown around while the car is rolling).
Several instances of threatening with guns and knives; in two scenes, a man is forcibly
held down by several others who remove his pants and threaten to cut off his testicles.
Men hit cars with baseballs bats and a sculpture crashes though a storefront's
window. A screaming woman is forcefully carried by a group of men. A couple of explosions
and fires: in one scene, we see many skyscrapers exploding and in another scene, a room in
a building explodes and we see charred furniture appliances on the ground below. We see
clear bags filled with bloody human fat; one of the bags breaks open and the fat pours
onto a man. A man pulls out a loose tooth. A man spits blood on another and also appears
to vomit on him. A man unzips his pants and urinates on food being prepared in a
restaurant (it's implied that this is done several times). We see a man sitting on a
toilet. We see several cars completely covered in bird feces.
PROFANITY 10 - Nearly 80 F-words, many anatomical references, many
scatological references and numerous mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Fighting, support groups (12-step programs), cancer,
insomnia, consumerism, underground hate groups, cults, group-mentality, identity crises,
doppelganger, psychology of power.
MESSAGE - We need to honestly confront out own demons in order to figure out
who we are, who we want to become, and how to take control of our lives.
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