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(2005)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing violent and aberrant sexual content involving a teen, and for language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • No actual nudity in the film. However child molestation is the subject matter.
  • There are many references to pedophilia and child molestation. A teenage girl constantly accuses a man of being a child molester, sometimes in graphic terms.
  • A chat-room conversation between a teenage girl and an adult man is shown.
  • A teenage girl changes in front of an adult man and she is seen wearing nothing but a bra from the waist up.
  • An adult man has many large pictures of teenage girls in revealing outfits in his home.
  • A teenage girl seductively strips for an adult man. The scene ends with the girl wearing a bra and revealing shorts. Nothing sexual happens between them.
  • A man is seen lying on a table nude from the waist down with a bag of ice on his genitals. The side of his bare buttocks and some pubic hair can be seen.
  • A teenage girl makes crude comments about an adult man's genitals.
  • It is implied that a man raped and murdered a teenage girl, however it is never explicitly stated.

Violence & Gore

  • The violence in this movie is not bloody but is quite relentless.

Profanity

  • About 20 uses of f**k and many other uses of milder language.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A teenage girl and a man drink a cocktail. A man collapses from the effects of a drug laced drink.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The entire film is incredibly intense.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A teenage girl finds child pornography hidden in an adult man's house. Nothing is shown, but the implication and reaction of the character to the pictures is distressing
  • A teenage girl explains in detail how a paedophile groomed her over the internet, with the intention of having sex with her.

Violence & Gore

  • The main plot of the film revolves around a teenage girl trying to get a man, she believes to be a pedophile, to confess to his crimes. Throughout the film, she drugs him, tasers him, asphyxiates him, sprays Windex down his throat, ties him up and puts his neck in a noose and makes violent threats. The violence listed here takes place spread across the entirety of the movie and is not very graphic.
  • In the most intense scene, the girl performs a castration on the man (this is all offscreen) the man is conscious during the surgery and is very distressed, something the girl seems to take joy in. Blurry images on a television screen show the surgery. The castrated testicles are later seen in a bloody bag. It is later revealed that the surgery was faked. This is a very long scene and is extremely intense and uncomfortable, however is not very violent.
  • It is implied that a man hangs himself at the end, however the action takes place offscreen.

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