In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
This movie contains 2 potentially triggering events.
Just seconding the above comment, not sure who voted yes but Doyle starts the film very injured and on the brink of death and is quickly saved and totally fine throughout the film.
One of the main plotlines is a teacher who has a nervous crush on his student and she's a very sexualized character as she's frequently shown with a short skirt showing her thighs and crop-tops showing off her midriff. There's a comment later in the film that she's 17 and will be 18 soon, and she's talked about as an exciting romantic prospect when she's of age. There's also a flashback with the main character meeting his girlfriend, who he met when she was 18 and still in high school. This character references his girlfriend's age when they met as a way to push the teacher to make the moves on his 17-year-old student.
Technically Doyle the dog has been abandoned before the events of the film, as the film opens with the main character finding him bloodied, injured, and left behind. He's taken in by this character and an almost immediate time jump shows that he has a good life and is loved by his owners throughout the film.
I'm not sure what the other comment is referring to? The scene in the tunnel a character is brutally beaten up by his friend, but there is no genital mutilation in the scene.
A few very quick allusions to prison rape. I'm not sure I'd call them jokes necessarily, but they are sort of flippant / outrageous fears for the character.
There's a scene where two characters are nude in a bathtub but it's very quick and they're covered by bubbles or their robes the entire time, so no actual nudity shown.
I personally find it a bit unclear how old Edward Norton's character is supposed to be, but it's a big plot point that he met his current girlfriend when she was 18 and he was presumably older, and his friend who is around his age in the "current" day of the film has a crush on a 17 year old, so clearly an even wider age gap.
To offer more clarification, there's a monologue where Edward Norton's character takes out his frustrations on every single minority group in New York City - it's very similar to the sequence of monologues in Do The Right Thing - and there's a moment of antisemitism within it but no more throughout the film.
There's a time when a character is being held down by a bunch of guys because he betrayed the main character, and the guys holding him down want the main character to kill him.
Not on screen, but the character used to be a drug dealer and at the beginning of the film we see someone who is an addict looking to buy. Another character mentions taking E earlier in the night. No drugs actually used on screen from what I noticed.
9/11 hangs over the film deeply, and intentionally, by Spike Lee as the director. I wouldn't say there's overt Islamaphobia in the film outside of the one monologue that's detailed elsewhere on this page under hate speech. There is also a scene that basically takes place at ground zero, and even the opening sequence heavily notes the lights that represent the place where the twin towers once were.
There's a monologue where Edward Norton expresses his hatred of all minority groups in NYC and there's hate speech thrown around in that. It's very similar to the almost identical sequence in Do The Right Thing.