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Playing a sleazy rare-book buyer/seller, Johnny Depp
encounters ominous people and even more ominous "occurrences" while in Europe
researching editions of a book supposedly written by Satan. Also with Frank Langella, Lena
Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford, Jack Taylor, José López Rodero, James Russo,
Tony Amoni, Willy Holt, Maria Ducceshi and Jacques Collard. [2:07]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - Several instances of sexual innuendo (including references to
an orgy) and a passionate kiss. We see a woman's bare breasts as she moves on top of a
shirtless man during intercourse (the camera moves from her face/torso to his face/torso).
A woman lifts her skirt to show a man part of her panties and garter belt. A woman fondles
a man's clothed crotch and kisses him passionately, then they fall on a couch and
presumably have intercourse (the scene ends as he lifts her skirt and reveals her bare
buttocks in a close-up shot; in the next scene he's wearing underwear with his pants at
his ankles and her dress is unbuttoned but we don't see any nudity). We see the bare
backside of a woman who's undressing, a shirtless man and a man's bare chest through his
unbuttoned shirt; we also glimpse, at a distance, a couple of bare backsides of people
wearing capes (their capes flip up as they're running). Twice, we see an old illustration
that includes a nude woman (her bare breasts are visible).
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - A person is choked to death by a necklace (a sharp point
on the necklace pierces the person's neck) and then the body is kicked out of the way. A
man puts his hand in flames and doesn't seem to be burned; he then douses himself with
gasoline and lights himself on fire, screaming in pain and flailing around until he's
shot. A man throws another down a staircase, slaps him and then beats the side of his head
until he presumably dies (we briefly see a red splotch on the side of his head). A man
puts his head in a noose, then we see a close-up of his feet kicking over the chair he's
standing on and twitching until he dies. A chase scene that ends with a man tackling
another and kicking him repeatedly, a woman kicking a man in the chest and a woman being
punched in the face, resulting in a bloody nose. A punch and some scuffles (mostly between
men and women); in one scene a man chokes a woman and in another a woman pulls a man's
hair, bites his chest and breaks a bottle over his head (we see some blood running down
his forehead and later see him holding an ice pack to his head). A man knocks a woman
down, a woman grabs a man's arm and twists it behind his back and a man is knocked out by
a blow to the back of his head. A man is nearly hit by collapsing scaffolding and nearly
hit by a car twice. A man breaks a window with his fist and a man falls through
floorboards while another pushes him further down by stepping on his head. A man finds his
apartment ransacked. We see two different buildings on fire. A few scenes of reckless
driving and a few instances of threatening with guns. We see a corpse in a wheelchair that
keeps running into a wall and then rolls into a room engulfed in flames (the corpse's eyes
are bulging and its tongue is hanging out of its mouth). We see a corpse hanging by its
feet and a corpse floating in a pond. A woman wipes blood from her nose onto a man's
forehead.
PROFANITY 5 - An F-word, a profane finger gesture, an anatomical reference,
a couple of scatological references, a few mild obscenities and a few insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Satan, book-buying/selling, murder, deception, obsession.
MESSAGE - Satan can take any form and can work in mystifying ways.
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