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.
Thriller about a deaf damsel-in-distress (Marlee Matlin)
victimized by a corrupt cop (Martin Sheen) and protected by a rock-climbing restauranteur
(D.B. Sweeney).
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Matlin is in the bathtub, and there's a very quick glimpse of
her breasts. Several kisses, one of which apparently leads to love-making, although we
only see the couple in bed and under the sheets, after the fact. There is an explicit
scene of translating sexual terms into sign language which leads to more kissing, and
presumably more sex.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - In the opening scene, a female security guard is shot
three times in the chest in slow-motion. We see blood spurting. A cop slams a man's head
onto a desk, then throws him to the floor; he gets a bloody nose. Another man is
interrogated and beaten: he's punched in the nose and his thumb is broken. A car blows up
and flies off a bridge, two women are beaten, and one is graphically choked. We see an
elderly woman unconscious with a bloody mouth. And a bloody hand, after it has gone
through a window. A man is pushed out a window; he's shown bloody, lying in a flower
garden.
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PROFANITY 5 - In this film we get profanity in two languages; regular
English and American Sign Language. Five F-words and one of its derivations. The remaining
(about 20) are scatological, anatomical, or sexually explicit references. [profanity glossary]
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