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Jeremy Irons stars as an History teacher, who responds to a
question about the meaning of History by launching a meandering airing of his family's
secrets, which include a number of closeted skeletons. There's sex and murder.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - Bare male bottoms, and teenage girls in modest underwear. A
young man is shown in is long-johns and it is obvious that he is aroused. Bare breasts.
Two teens are shown making love several times, in various locales: a train, an abandoned
hay storage outbuilding.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man is found dead, floating in a river. When he is
turned over he is bluish white and bloated. Some pushing and shoving between two young
men. A young woman is shown in the early stages of an abortion (the old-fashioned way),
and is heard screaming out in fear and pain.
PROFANITY 5 - The F-word is used several times. Scatological terms are also
used several times. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Drinking, "intoxication shows them for what they are:
mindless fools." Murder, jealousy, incest, premarital (teen) sex, teenage pregnancy,
abortion, kidnapping.
MESSAGE - The very insignificance of a single event, however dreadful it may
seem at the time, is where hope dwells.
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