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Michael Douglas plays a newly appointed U.S. Drug Czar who
finds he can't even control his own daughter's addiction to cocaine, much less make major
headway in the war on drugs. Also with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Erika
Christensen, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Steven Bauer, Miguel Ferrer, Amy Irving, Dennis
Quaid, Jacob Vargas and Albert Finney. [2:25]
SEX/NUDITY 6 -
Some instances of sexual
innuendo, including
references to masturbation,
teen sex and homosexual sex.
Passionate teen kissing. A
man picks up another man in
a gay bar by putting a
cigarette packet on the bar
with a condom wrapped on the
package and the man checks
out the other's clothed
backside and looks at him
seductively. Teens talk
about getting high, having
sex and climaxing together;
we see a boy and girl begin
to take their clothes off.
We see a man and a young
woman (teenage girl) in bed
having sex, with the man on
top thrusting many times; we
see the man's bare backside
and the girl's bare
shoulders. We see a naked
man, including his pubic
hair and bare buttocks. We
see bare-chested men in a
pool. A woman is in her
nightgown with a great deal
of cleavage showing. We can
vaguely see a woman's
nipples through her top (not
meant in a sexual way, just
the way the material and
sunlight interact). A
teenage girl prostitutes her
body for drugs and she is
lying in a bed with a sheet
up to her shoulders but is
obviously nude under the
covers.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 -
Threatening with guns, and several shots are fired. Police hold guns on two drug smugglers and throw one to the ground and roughly handcuff him behind his back. A man is beaten and tortured and is shown bound to a chair and a man begins to spray something into his face while holding his jaw and we hear his screams; we later see him with bruises and cuts on his body and face. A man is shot in the chest (we see blood come out of the wound) and apparently killed. A man is shot in the back. We see blood dripping down a man's face. A man is shot in the back and a lot of blood squirts out of his chest; we see the corpse lying in blood. A car explodes, killing a man. A man is shot in the foot. A man is shot in the back of the head and killed at point blank range while his friend watches with a gun to his own head and after the pair had been forced to dig their own graves. A man is poisoned to death; we see him on the ground grabbing his throat in pain and foam oozes out of his mouth (we later hear he died). A man threatens to break a young man's neck. A young man passes out (and almost dies) from overdosing on drugs and we see some convulsing. We see several instances of teenagers freebasing cocaine; a girl takes an injection of heroin in her foot. A man grabs a teenager and shoves him; other instances of people shoving/pushing each other.
PROFANITY 10 -
About 70 F-words and derivatives (some are spelled out in subtitles), several anatomical references, lots of scatological references, several mild obscenities and religious profanities, many insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Drugs, the war on drugs, teen sex and drug use, teen prostitution, loss of
a husband, torture, parenting, suicide, addiction, dysfunctional families, stealing.
MESSAGE - The war on drugs is a futile endeavor; drug addiction ruins individual lives and destroys families.
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