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.
After his release from prison, Englishman Terence Stamp
goes to L.A. with a vengeance to find the person responsible for his daughter's
"accidental" death. Also with Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Barry
Newman, Joe Dallesandro, Nicky Katt, Amelia Heinle and Melissa George. [1:30]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - A misogynistic joke in reference to fellatio. In a flashback,
we briefly see a couple embracing each other (their bare arms and shoulders are visible).
We see a woman wearing a bathing suit (part of her bare buttocks is visible), a woman
wearing a towel, the bare back and bare shoulders of a woman in a bathtub (in two
different scenes), a woman wearing a towel while scrubbing another man's bare back
and a woman undressing in front of a man (her bra and panties are visible). We see several
small, ancient-looking figures of a man and woman in various sexual positions and two
illustrations of someone's nude posterior (in the background of a scene).
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - Several men are shot and killed; we see bloody holes in
their clothing and one has a bloody mouth. A man imagines shooting another in the chest,
elbow and head; we see two bloody holes in his shirt, a tiny bloody hole in his forehead
and blood spraying onto the wall behind him. A man head-butts another and throws him over
a ledge; we see his lifeless body lying on the ground below and later see the body being
air-lifted on a stretcher. A man shakes a woman roughly and she collapses, then we see
blood on his hand as he looks at her lifeless body. A man is stabbed in the back with what
looks like a kitchen gadget. In one scene we hear gunshots and it's implied that a
man has killed several others (afterwards we see the shooter with some blood sprayed on
his face). A man pushes another's head into a desk, bloodying his mouth; one pushes
the other against a wall and they punch each other a few times (one is hit in the crotch
and seems to be in terrible pain). A man is dragged out of a building and kicked by
several people. Several punches, pushes, kicks and scuffles; in one scene, a man chokes
another. We see a man who's been bound and gagged. A few people are shot at; in one
scene, two men exchange gunfire. A man buys a gun from two teenage boys. A car
intentionally runs into another; also, a car hits another and causes it to roll off a
cliff and twice, we see a car engulfed in flames. We see a corpse with a bloody temple and
forehead. A man twists his ankle and we see some blood on his sock; also, we see some
bloody gauze when a man's wound is being cleaned.
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PROFANITY 9 - 44 F-words, many anatomical references, lots of scatological
references, a few mild obscenities and some insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Revenge, criminals, dysfunctional families, record industry,
relationships between older men and younger women.
MESSAGE - Sometimes the sweetest revenge is forcing someone to admit their
wrongdoings.
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