When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
This movie contains 45 potentially triggering events.
According to Humane Hollywood and the DVDs directors cut, production used trip wire to trip the dogs as they were running. Humane Hollywood details this more, saying the wire was attached to their front feet, making it so they’d flip midair. Although no dogs were actually shot, or gravely harmed - there’s still cruelty and harm involved in tripping an animal with wire as they’re running at a fast pace.
Spoilers: Someone is killed by being stabbed, and a character is hit by a car; they show blood on the windshield and down their face as they die on impact.
There is a scene where a young character is technically kidnapped, but it is posed as a positive thing because he is being removed from a neglectful and abusive household.
A character’s father is gay, him and his partner are constantly referred to as “homos,” and the same slur is used throughout the film by various characters.