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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Several sex scenes, not very graphic though.
  • Much of the film is centered around sex, lots of sexual language.
  • A long scene showing Tammy's breasts as she seduces Caden in her bedroom.
  • Many of Adele's paintings show her subjects nude, including breasts and bush. Many of the subjects are characters who we know.
  • A nude woman dances in a peep show. Full frontal nudity on display.
  • A reference to a man who "Laid many women".
  • A man and woman kiss and move to bed. Sex is implied but never seen
  • A brief discussion of a girl who was victim of sexual assault. Non graphic.
  • A woman is dancing in a bikini

Violence & Gore

  • A sink faucet sputters and its handle is blown off, hitting a man in the forehead. He covers the wound, but blood is clearly visible around the wound and on his shirt. There is a later close-up (about a second or two long) of him getting stitches.
  • A man develops gross-looking pustules on his face; his face and body deteriorate over the course of the film.
  • A man has gum surgery. We very briefly see a snippet of the (bloody) operation.
  • Bed-sheets are covered with a moderate amount of blood after a brutal beating that isn't shown.
  • Numerous weird deaths throughout the film.

Profanity

  • Moderate profanity and several uses of the word "shit" and 10 uses of "fuck"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Tammy smokes cigarettes.
  • People talk about getting high.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film may be deeply depressing and pessimistic to some people. To others, it may be extremely quirky and humorous.
  • A main theme of the film is the passing of time, and the main character's lack of awareness of it. The opening scene is a great example: he's reading the October 14th newspaper. Then later, the same newspaper seems to be showing the October 17th news. After that, he gets milk out of the fridge, only to find that it is past its expiration date (October 20th). But this entire sequence is shot to look like everything is happening on the same morning. Viewers may find things like this frightening or jarring.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • Caden sees Olive dancing in a booth in a sex shop, objecting to her working this way. She is covered with tattoos but her breasts are clearly seen.

Violence & Gore

  • The world becomes increasingly apocalyptic as the film progresses and time passes. In the aftermath of an atomic bomb of some sort, there are many corpses and dead bodies.

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