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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong language, drug use and sex-related content
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • An iconic image of Farrah Fawcett from Charlie's Angels is given a moment of screen time with the side of her breast mostly visible.
  • A teenage boy who's possibly 16, 17, or 18 years old strips for money but loses and then he meets an older woman and has sex with her. The sex between the two is off screen, though kissing is seen.
  • Various adult magazines can be seen in one of the main characters room including 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler'. Nothing graphic is seen, also some adult magazines can be seen in the Happy Mart grocery store (no nudity).
  • Trip talks about fingering a girl.
  • Talk a someone's mother being a lesbian because she was a female gynecologist.
  • The boys watch a girl go to the bathroom.
  • Some sexual references were to a girl, thinking that she would exchange oral sex for a ride.
  • Trip wants to lift up the skirt of an unconscious woman.
  • A hot-tub is shown full of naked women.
  • Two men make sexual references to raping a woman. In the same scene the girl talks about one of her friends with "tits the size of your head. You'll feel like a baby suckin on em." to get the men to let her go.
  • A brief but explicit shot of a topless girl at the concert. She is wearing a jacket, but it's open and her bare breasts are visible underneath it.

Violence & Gore

  • The guys push a security guard down a flight of stairs with a t.v. cart.
  • A boy wipes his windshield off with Hawk's head. Hawk then knees him in the groin, and punches him in the face.
  • The boys line up, pull out various 'weapons' (a belt buckle, a wallet chain, drumsticks) and proceed to beat a boy with it.
  • Hawk attempts to choke Trip.
  • A large man knees Trip in the groin. Later he punches him in the stomach which throws him back against a wall.

Profanity

  • The words "fuck", "fucking" or "fucker" are said 83 times.
  • Many uses of "shit", "ass(hole)", "damn", and some useage of "fag".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • MUCH pot paraphernalia (bongs).
  • The boys smoke weed in a car, and Christine gets high by second-hand smoke.
  • Trip starts to smoke a joint in school, but thinks someone is coming, so he swallows it.
  • There's cigarette smoking throughout the movie.
  • People at a backstage party are drinking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • During the opening sequence of the film, a woman is relaxed in an easy chair expecting her turn table to play a soft record, and KISS' "I Stole Your Love" instead plays, causing an intentional "jump scare" moment, but it's all done in comedic fashion.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Hawk strips for money, there are half-naked men dancing suggestively.
  • Hawk strips, then goes outside to have sex with a woman. A joke about premature ejaculations is made and his erection is shown.
  • Jam has sex with Beth in a church confessional booth. He then yells it over a bullhorn.

Violence & Gore

  • A robber holds up a store, and then points a gun at Trip.
  • All four of the boys beat each other up to get into the concert.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The boys slip 'shrooms on a priest's pizza.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Two men talk about raping Christine.
  • Trip has a gun pointed at him by a robber, and is threatened to get shot.

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