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Three childhood friends Sean (Kevin Bacon), Jimmy
(Sean Penn) and Dave (Tim Robbins) from a rough Boston neighborhood
find themselves embroiled in a web of lies and secrets when Jimmy's
19-year-old daughter is found brutally murdered. The police
investigation is led by Sean, but when it doesn't seem to be
progressing, Jimmy gives the police a deadline to solve the case or
he'll take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, there's something
decidedly strange about Dave's behavior. Also with Laura Linney,
Marcia Gay Harden and Laurence Fishburne. Directed by Clint
Eastwood. [2:17]
SEX/NUDITY 7 - A man sits in a car and a boy's head
raises up from his lap (presumably performing oral sex). A man and a
woman lie in bed together kissing and caressing each other. A young
man and a young woman kiss a few times, a woman kisses a man's head
and they kiss, and a man and a woman kiss. Allusions are made to a
boy (11 years old) having been sexually molested by two men over a
period of four days, and the grown man refers to it as "they had
their fun." Three young women dance on a bar: one, wearing a short
skirt, kicks her legs up and we see her bare thighs and the men in
the bar admire them. A man makes a comment about a boy being
"damaged goods." A man talks about child prostitution. A man and a
woman sleep in bed together. A young woman kisses a man on the neck
and nose (her father). We see a man in his underwear as he dresses.
A woman wears a short top that reveals her bare back to the hips,
and a woman wears dresses that reveal cleavage. There are several
sexual remarks made: a man says to another man "she wants to bed
you," and "she makes gay guys re-think their orientation."
VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - A man stabs a man in the stomach, he
falls back on the ground with a bloody wound and the man shoots him
in the head (we see a white flash). A man grabs a man out of a car
and punches him in the head and face repeatedly (we see blood and
broken teeth). A young man throws a boy over a table, grabs another
boy and punches and kicks him in the face repeatedly (he has a very
bloody chin, mouth and nose), he goes back to the first boy, shakes
him and hits him. We see the dead body of a young woman in an
abandoned bear cage (her leg is twisted and she has blood on her
head and chest). We see a dead body on a table in a morgue, with
skin tinged blue, and dried blood and bruises; a man identifies the
body. We see a dead body on a table in a funeral home. A boy
threatens a young man with a gun, he fires into the ceiling and is
wrestled to the floor. A man talks about having shot a man twice. We
see a car accident scene where the seats of a car glisten with blood
and a man talks as if he caused the accident on purpose. We hear
that a young woman was shot twice, that she has a split in her head
and that she was beaten to death with a hockey stick. We hear that a
man was found dead. Allusions are made to a boy (11 years old)
having been sexually molested by two men over a period of four days.
Also a man talks about having been kidnapped when he was a boy and
abused for four days by two men. A man talks about having beaten
someone possibly to death. A man yells at a boy and forces him into
a car, we see the boy in a darkened room, a man comes in and the boy
says "no more, please." A man has a bloody cut on his stomach, a
badly bruised hand and blood on his hands. Three men fight with a
crowd of police to get to a crime scene and one screams in grief and
terror when he realizes who the victim is. A man talks about what is
done to a body during an autopsy. Two men push forcefully through a
crowd, shove a few people and make threats. A bloody bit of stocking
is found. A man confronts a man and threatens him with a knife. A
man threatens to kill someone. A man talks in a joking manner about
a man with a steak knife in his chest. We see a bit of blood inside
a car. Boys talk about doing mischief; stealing a car, writing in
wet cement. A man shoves a boy against a wall. A young woman is
startled when someone in the back seat of her car touches her. A man
vomits twice (we hear splat and gagging). Two men are dubbed "The
Savage Brothers" because they strong arm people.
PROFANITY 10 - 73 F-words and derivatives, 2 obscene
hand gestures, 1 sexual reference, 16 scatological terms, 8
anatomical terms, 11 mild obscenities, 3 religious profanities, 18
religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Pedophilia, child prostitution,
sexual abuse, chemical dependence, revenge, weakness, remorse,
friendship, death of a child, Adolf Hitler, death of a parent, death
of a spouse, mental instability, road rage, inevitability,
embezzlement.
MESSAGE - Taking the law into your own hands can have
unpredictable results. We do what we have to for the people we love.
(Note: People are shown smoking cigarettes and drinking
alcohol, sometimes to the point of inebriation.)
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