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.
An FBI agent (Dennis Quaid) tracks a serial killer.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Sexual innuendo. Many nude centerfolds and pictures are seen
(full frontal female nudity) in many scenes.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A woman is stabbed leaving a pool of blood on the floor. A
couple of bloody corpses are found and a murder scene with blood on the walls. A barroom
brawl with hitting, punching and kneeing, as well as threatening with knives and guns. A
man performs an emergency operation. Photos of bloody murder victims. A flashback of a man
being shot (with a bloody face). A person holds a knife to a man's throat and is then shot
in the leg. A man's throat is cut, another man's leg is cut, and a man is impaled on a
tree branch (there's blood on each victim). Someone is stabbed and killed off screen. A
man is hit with a shovel. Chases and people nearly fall off cliffs in cars and moving
trains. A train nearly hits a man in a car.
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PROFANITY 6 - A couple of F-words, some scatological references, a few
anatomical references, many mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Serial killers, hitchhiking, kidnapping, law enforcement.
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