The Ninth Configuration (1980) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman in a bar dances on the table. She is wearing cutoff jean shorts, and her underwear is visible at her cheeks. Bar goers try to smack and touch her as she dances, and she swats them away.
  • Some bits of innuendo, and some explicit sexual references.

Violence & Gore

  • In a flashback to Vietnam, a character holds a young boy's severed head in his lap. Bar fight scene features realistic violence. A character's wrists are cut open (offscreen, but we later see the wound).

Profanity

  • A character uses the the racial slur "spic"
  • Frequent usage of the f-word. Many other instances of strong language.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some characters smoke; some alcoholic beverages present

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Long intimidation scene in bar.
  • The memorian to Peter V. Blatty at the ending with the Lorimar Television theme may be a bit creepy for viewers.
  • Bizarre dream sequences feature strange uses of Christian symbolism.
  • Other: One of the mental paitents dances in blackface.

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Sex & Nudity

  • During a bar fight, a mentally ill man is held down and forced to suck a gang member's penis. No nudity is shown but you see them unzip and sit on his chest and can hear it afterward with captions even saying "Gagging noises"

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