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Ang Lee's Civil War drama about young Southern men who join the
"bushwhackers," a rag-tag civilian guerrilla unit, after
their town is destroyed by Union soldiers. With Skeet Ulrich,
Tobey Maguire, Jewel Kilcher, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker-Denny,
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, James Caviezel, Tom Guiry, Tom Wilkinson,
Jonathan Brandis, Matthew Faber, Stephen Mailer, John Ales, Zach
Grenier and Margo Martindale. [2:18]
SEX/NUDITY 3 - Mild sexual innuendo and a couple of
kisses. In two scenes we see most of a woman's breast as she
breastfeeds. It's implied that a couple has intercourse in two
different scenes: in one a woman undresses a man, removes her slip
and then they fall onto a bed and kiss (only their bare shoulders
are visible); in the other, we see a woman in her undershirt,
post-coitus.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Several shoot-outs and battles scenes
in which lots and lots of men are shot, sometimes at very close
range and sometimes in close-up (we see a man shot through the
cheek, another shot in the throat, another shot in the side and
another's pinky is shot off); we often see blood spray from the
wounds. In one extended scene, hundreds of soldiers on horses
stampede into a town, shooting many men, burning buildings and
looting stores. Afterwards, we see corpses strewn throughout the
streets and piled in large stacks. We see a man's extremely
bloody, ripped-to-shreds arm after he's been shot; in a later,
excruciating to watch scene, we see an aerial view of someone
beginning to saw off his bloody arm (he eventually dies). Some
human scalps are thrown onto a table. A horse rolls over a man
who's been shot. A man is thrown through a second-story window of
a building (we see him hanging onto the ledge), several men are
tied to a post (their faces are bruised and cut) and a man kicks
another off a chair. We see several buildings engulfed in flames.
Lots of threatening with guns.
PROFANITY 4 - An anatomical reference, several
scatological references, lots of mild obscenities, some insults
and lots of racial epithets. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The Civil War, The Old South,
bushwackers, militias, murder, massacres, loyalty, friendship,
separation from loved ones, slavery, racism, marriage.
MESSAGE - War is fueled by vengeance and emotion rather
than rational thought.
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