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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language, violence and sensuality
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Some shirtless men are seen in a locker room with towels around their waists
  • A child says "I put my ding-a-ling in her every night so that makes her mine!"
  • Sexual references from the teen protagonists.
  • Bare breasts and nipples are seen for extended time as a couple are having sex, female on top.

Violence & Gore

  • A man fires a gun at an intruder, but the bullet just goes through a door.
  • A woman tells her child not to get smart with her because she'll "knock (his) ass out".
  • In one scene, there is a young boy walking home, and in the background you can see a beatdown behind him.
  • Not a lot of violence but is occasional and all sequences are built with threat.
  • A few young men are shot with machine guns in a drive-by. We see some blood on one of the young men as he is killed point blank (off screen) while begging for his life. The killing is shown off screen, as we only see one character's face, shooting the gun to end his life.
  • We see a slightly bloody dead body.
  • Guns are pulled in a few scenes and used to threaten people. Shots are sometimes heard being fired in the distance.

Profanity

  • 85 uses of "fuck" (41 paired with "mother").
  • 109 uses of "shit" (2 paired with "bull").
  • 49 uses of "ass".
  • 36 uses of "bitch" (1 paired with "son of a-").
  • 36 uses of "damn" (4 paired with "God").
  • 8 uses of "ho" (1 is displayed on license plate reading KING HO).
  • 8 uses of "pussy".
  • 7 uses of "God" as exclamations.
  • 6 uses of "hell".
  • 6 uses of "dick".
  • 2 uses of "titty".
  • 1 use of "faggot".
  • The language is very strong and sometimes sexual, it's definitely most explicit in this category.
  • Cinemax content advisory: rated R for violence (V), nudity (N), graphic language (GL), and adult content (AC).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People are always drinking on porches or just anywhere in the movie. Also a reference to crack and a crack pipe is visible early on in the movie. Some tobacco smoking. Drinking is the most frequent act seen throughout the movie.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A very emotional film.
  • There is an intense scene where a cop holds a gun to a man's throat

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Violence & Gore

  • Ricky is killed by a shotgun in a drive-by shooting. We see a very large, bloody wound afterwards for an ample amount of time.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • We see a group of friends mourning their pal's death.
  • There is a scene depicting a family completely falling apart at the sight of their dead son/brother/father's bloody dead body. Very realistic, intense, disturbing and above all extremely emotional.

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