Requiem for a Dream

Movie • 2000 • Crime  

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The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
This movie contains 59 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Abandonment
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Harry suddenly goes on a trip out of state to try to find more heroin. His girlfriend Marion is left behind alone to take care of herself during her heroin withdrawel. This forces her to sell her body for money and drugs.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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TaylorMoon
Not at all. There's some minor gaslighting and Yelling/frustration at most.
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K1234
Yes. Towards the end of the film Marion is forced to perform painfull groupsex by her pimp.
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Katekaller
At the beginning of the movie a son gaslights his mother to sell her tv
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Anonymous
Drugs are a major theme in this movie.
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Is there addiction?
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BlancheDuBois
All of the main characters suffer from drug use. The mother gets locked in a psych ward after taking diet pills. The son ends up with an infected arm from injecting heroin. Another character resorts to sex work to buy drugs.
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Harbor
mostly all
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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sbtuarry
well for one there's lots of drug use, but when an older woman gets sent to a mental hospital she gets something injected into her
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Is there pedophilia?
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sbtuarry
no but a character is shown with her head under the bath water for a lengthy amount of time
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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frootsnak
During the mental institution scene other commenters have mentioned
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roseswiththorns
Regarding the other comment, that’s not true consent. Coercion and being forced to do something for one’s survival is not. consensual. That’s sexual abuse. That’s rape. If you think that’s actually consensual, that’s horrifying.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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It doesn't show the whole thing, but it does imply that she was forced into sex coercively.
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Bodily Harm
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Rainyfool
Graphic arm (very quick) arm amputation.
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yeah so not cool wasnt expecting that

marion imagines stabbing a fork thru someones hand, pretty gross tbh
only lasts like 3 seconds tho
did make me pause and take a deep breath LMAO

arnd 58 min mark
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Katekaller
In the mental institution scene, the characters nose is held while force fed
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler*

I'm not sure if this counts, but a character has a serious arm infection that is shown multiple times.
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Towards the end of the movie, a character has part of an arm amputated. It’s a quick scene but still very graphic and disturbing.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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K1234
There is a lot of heavy druguse in this movie, that in some way or another leave people unconcious multiple times.
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Katekaller
An arm is amputated
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Towards the end of the movie, a character is checked into a mental institution and undergoes electroshock therapy, force feeding, etc. It’s very disturbing and intense to watch.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Rainyfool
Only a dream of falling
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler*
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According to the director the main characters all survive, but it's depicted an an ambiguous enough way that he needed to clarify that.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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By the end of the movie, Harry has one arm, but he's played by Jared Leto, who has two arms.
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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K1234
One of the main characters develops amphetamine psychosis and is seen becoming uncouncious multiple times. Other results of heavy drug-use are also depicted. No one dies tho.
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Rainyfool
A father is talked about being passed away. The mother however does go through many heartbreaking and disturbing circumstances including force feeding and electro-shock therapy.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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TaylorMoon
No cheating. It is consentually understood beforehand however it's survival sex and not really consentual in the grander sense of things for anyone.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
No, but a woman has some ghost-like hallucinations.
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TaylorMoon
The 'chapters' come on very loud as the labels drop on screen. Lots of sudden volume jumps because of the cinematography style, but not really traditional jump scares.
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TaylorMoon
Underwater bath scene. She screams underwater and floats under as though maybe dead
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Yes, close to the end.
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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TaylorMoon
Twice. Once as Marion leaves the elevator to exit the apartment, after sleeping with the creepy bald dude. And at the end there's a chaotic mash up of scenes of all characters * SPOILERS AHEAD:

in the scene where Marion is in the orgy, and then it shows Harry in the hospital and Tyrone mashing potatoes, it flashes through them faster and faster and eventually we briefly see some shots of Tyrone being sick in jail.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
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KnightWhoSaysNi
The movie came out before 9/11.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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K1234
Yes. Two of the main characters are incarcerated due to their drug use. The law inforcement people in this situation are not very kind, especially not to the black guy.
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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Circuitscars
It's really brutal and seriously messed me up. I wish I had known before seeing this movie. Don't watch if you're afraid of this specific thing or of mentally ill people being abused.
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Anonymous
Frequent, graphic images of intervenous drug use and it's negative after-effects.
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Abbeyuh
One of the characters gets trapped in a mental institution where they are abused by the staff, and we are left to assume that they are stuck there forever.
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a lot of the second half takes place in a hospital
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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TaylorMoon
Drug use
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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K1234
One of the main characters develops amphetamine pshychosis. She is later committed to a hospital where she enters a catatonic state of dissociation.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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K1234
The effects of heavy druguse and overdose are shown from the perspective of the users.
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DeDoDoDeDaDa
The movie showcases different people hitting rock bottom because of their addictions, and I suppose that the concept of having a meltdown could be applied to all of them. But the mother in particular seems to really lose her sanity.
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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K1234
One of the main characters is completly obsessed with fitting into her favorite red dress and looking good for TV. Which causes her to lose all touch with reality.
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TaylorMoon
They hangout under some bleachers or a deck or something at one point that's kinda low and closed. Restraints in mental hospital are used.
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TaylorMoon
Dieting attempts followed by diet pills and complete cessation of eating.
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TaylorMoon
No suicide. Just poor coping and apathy for life.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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sbtuarry
This whole film is trippy with plenty of shaky cam, quick flashes and sounds and such
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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K1234
Not really. But during a psychotic episode we see how one of the main characters believes that she is being watched by the people on TV and/or her refrigerator.
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KnightWhoSaysNi
No, but there's a scene where a character hallucinates people from a TV program interacting with her in a way that may be triggering.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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TaylorMoon
In the jail at the end of the movie, from guard to tyrone
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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TaylorMoon
The mother calls herself enormous and says she's got 50 pounds to give away
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Yes
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faxmachine
The black character, Tyrone, is not harmed in the movie. Physically speaking.
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Is there hate speech?
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TaylorMoon
n word in jail towards the very end of the movie, towards Tyrone.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
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K1234
Marion, a young woman, is coerced into having sex with older men.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler* A character engages in survival sex and does a sexual act in front of a large group of men. She is visibly distressed by it.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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JimmyP
There is some very explicit sex towards the end of the film.
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Is there BDSM?
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DeDoDoDeDaDa
No BDSM. But, at the end of the movie, some women are put in a very degrading and sexually objectifying situation, in a scene that is very explicit.
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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0
Ellen Burstyn as Sara actually does wear fat materials to portray various body sizes her character passes through.
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K1234
No, but it is implied that the main characters will become homeless if they don't get money soon.
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Yes
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Anonymous
This is not a happy movie in any way.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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TaylorMoon
Bath scene where she stays long, motionless underwater and finally screams
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Yes
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TaylorMoon
Graphic shooting in the car with the drug dealer, and again in the grocery store back area to get the expensive xmas heroine
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