Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
Tim Roth and the late Tupac Shakur are two drug addicts
trying to go through rehab and lead a better life.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Sexual innuendo (including references to a threesome and oral
sex), kissing. A couple of scenes of a woman's bare breasts, a scantily clad woman
(wearing only her underwear).
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - A man is found shot dead in his home with some blood on
the floor. A couple of gunfights with a man shot in the arm (some blood). A man is stabbed
a few times with a knife in his abdomen (some blood). Two men are in the hospital with
blood on their arm and torso; there is some blood on other people waiting in the hospital.
Chases, threatening with guns, a man is hit over the head, a woman with a black eye, men
are thrown around and punched, scuffles. Blood seen when it's drawn for a blood test.
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PROFANITY 10 - 150+ F-words, many scatological references, many anatomical
references, some mild obscenities, a racial slur. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Drug abuse, drug dealing, rehabilitation, bureaucratic red
tape.
MESSAGE - Sometimes it's not easy to leave a life of crime and drug use and
go down the straight and narrow path.
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