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The Usual Suspects | 1995 | R | - 2.7.9

A group of criminals gets involved in a heist gone awry.

SEX/NUDITY 2 - A woman's blouse is yanked down during a rape (see Violence/Gore below) but the scene is blurry; her breasts are barely visible.

VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Many scenes of men with guns and many men are shot and killed (with some blood). Two men are killed in an elevator leaving bloody smears. A man shoots another man at point-blank (we just hear the shots). We see a bloody corpse and charred bodies are brought out of the water. A badly burned man is shown in a few scenes. A man staggers around with a knife in the back of his throat. Men attack and rape a family; the father kills his own family during the attack and then walks away in a blaze of fire. Much talk of violence that isn't shown.

LANGUAGE 9 - 30+ F-words, 35+ scatological terms, and many milder obscenities.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Professional criminals, police interrogations.

MESSAGE - The truth is found in unexpected places.

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