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- Profanity (2)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (3)
- Spoilers (2)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Sex: None
- Nudity: None
- There is a reference to an affair.
Violence & Gore
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- Gore: None
- A man has a slow-acting poison slipped in his drink, which causes him to become progressively ill throughout the film.
- A character punches an ill man several times in the stomach after observing how painful it is for him.
- Characters are verbally threatened, shaken by the shoulders, have guns pulled on them, etc., as one would expect in a film noir.
- Two characters are shot to death.
Profanity
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- None
- Very little if any.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Drugs: Recreational non-proscription = None
- Characters are seen drinking in a bar. The main character is poisoned by way of his drink.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- One character consistently behaves in a very violent, aggressive, cruel manner, and is described as "psychopathic."
- Overall, "D.O.A." will not shock anyone who has seen a film noir before, but the premise is quite dark.
- There is a reference to a murder.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Another character is given a slow-acting poison, but it is implied that he may survive.
- The main character succumbs to the poison in the very last scene.
