A Man Called Otto

Movie • 2022 • Comedy  

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When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
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Does the dog die?
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around 52 mins in the stray cat looks like it's dead in the snow but the cat is NOT dead
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there BDSM?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Are there bedbugs?
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Is religion discussed?
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Is there menstruation?
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Abandonment
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One character is kicked out of his house by his father.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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Sandphin
Offscreen, not shown. Character mentions getting kicked out of his home for being trans.
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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puddlediving
Malcom is kicked out of his family home by his father, and goes to Otto for a place to sleep. Kicked out for being trans.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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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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It looks like a cat is dead but it’s just very cold
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Are animals abused?
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Smuckers
It’s not quite abuse but a homeless cat is found almost dead in the snow. It’s a very disturbing scene (but the cat is eventually fine).
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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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a cat has a near death experience where they are feozen. could be triggering, but cat ends up absolutely fine
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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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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
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BriCip
There is a scene where Otto shaves his face with an electric razor that is plugged into the wall.
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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the main character attempts suicide by noose first, and by asphyxiation with gas second.
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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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Sandphin
During the first suicide attempt; main character attempts to hang himself but fails.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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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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The main character attempts suicide by hanging twice in the opening twenty minutes
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the main character attempts suicide by asphyxiation
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Troo
Not on-screen, but one character falls from a ladder and is in a cast & using crutches for several weeks after the event.
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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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Is someone tortured?
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The fall is not seen but someone does fall off a ladder and was brought to the hospital with a broken foot.
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No but a man collapses off a platform onto a railway track as a train approaches down the line
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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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There is a miscarriage, nothing is seen
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
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Almost. There is an attempt where he is going to throw himself on the train tracks and ends up saving someone else who has a cardiac episode and ends up falling onto the tracks and the main character almost does not got out of the way of the train.
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Sandphin
Yes! Main character dies at the end, from natural causes.
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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The theme of death and dying is big in this movie
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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Brig
There is some discussion of and a brief scene showing only hands being held during the passing of a spouse.
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Does a parent die?
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BriCip
Parent death is mentioned.
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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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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Jmergel4
Not a ghost but his dead wife appears in a flashback but while he is in the present
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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there is a clown at the hospital
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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No one vomits, totally safe and very good movie
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We hear a baby soil his diaper near the end of the movie and the parent goes off to change him. Nothing is seen, and there are other instances
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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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A baby farts nesr the end of the film
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
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jdpamv
No, but transphobic actions occur offscreen (a trans man is disowned).
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Anonymous
Referenced but does not happen onscreen.
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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
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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loren00
Three separate scenes
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AnonymousElk
Protagonist's wife died of cancer 6 months prior to the film's setting, leading to protagonist's suicidal ideation. It is the defining theme of the film.
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Mental Health
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Depression from complicated grief.
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The main character makes several attempts to take his own life
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MingaLei
Not explicitly diagnosed but very much coded as autistic (source: am autistic)
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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dorothysfriend
Not abuse but dislike for Otto who clearly displays stereotypical traits of Autism. He is chastised for being "rude"/too straightforward.
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the movie starts with a suicide attempt, and depicts multiple further attempts actively on screen.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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puddlediving
Otto has a panic attack when Marisol suggests clearing out his deceased wife's belongings.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Anonymous
Not exactly but words to that effect
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Anonymous
There is also a scene where the protagonist shuts his garage door while a woman is inside, and she pounds on the door. We see her phone light in darkness as the door shuts. But a few seconds later Otto tells her the door is not locked and we see her open the door and get out. It’s played for laughs and very brief
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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AnonymousElk
There is no successful suicide but 5 distinct attempts by the protagonist throughout the film, as well as several dialogue scenes discussing his intentions.
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No, although the protagonist’s life story is told in frequent flashbacks he experiences at emotional moments, including flashbacks to traumatic incidents. The flashbacks are the narrative kind rather than the PTSD kind; Otto they seem more like memories than literal flashbacks
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Sandphin
A gunshot.
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Is there shakey cam?
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KatieAbel
A lot of people must not understand how sensitive some of us are to shaky cam filming. There are a few moments filmed with shaky cam/handheld. They are very brief and easy to look away without missing anything.
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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
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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loren00
Sonya loses her baby at 6 months
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Anonymous
A woman loses her baby after experiencing a bus accident. We see her crying in the hospital with her husband after learning the news. The unused baby supplies and the couple’s lack of children come up frequently throughout the movie
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One character is pregnant for most of the movie and we see the baby near the end. There is also talk of the protagonist’s wife’s pregnancy in flashbacks. SPOILERS: the protagonist’s wife suffers a miscarriage due to a bus accident
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Is there childbirth?
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loren00
Marisol has her baby but only very early labour is shown on screen
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Are there abortions?
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Anonymous
No, however a pregnant person is harmed by an accident and looses her baby.
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Prejudice
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Anonymous
Trans character is kicked out of the home but no slurs that I recall. We never see the characters who were transphobic, it’s only spoken of
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dorothysfriend
Otto is chastised for having autistic traits by other characters. (Very straightforward in his conversation - called rude for doing so)

Also for sticking to rules in a black and white fashion (at work, at home in his neighbourhood - everything.)
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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AnonymousElk
No - the opposite. There is positive representation of a trans character, supported by the protagonist. There is reference to that character not being accepted by their family.
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Anonymous
Trans character who experiences transphobia offscreen but survives and gets a happy ending
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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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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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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0
Main character has a critical heart condition
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Does someone have a stroke?
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BriCip
Multiple characters have some sort of chronic/ terminal illness. Mostly elderly characters.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Anonymous
To add to the other comment, Otto does allow him to stay at his house. We never see him struggling for a place to stay, only him asking Otto and being let in. He is a recurring character, though, it is not a one-off scene. We see him with Otto a lot afterwards
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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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EmIsHere
More bittersweet than sad in my opinion. It's hard to explain without spoiling the film. The characters get happy endings for the most part but something sad happens at the very end, albeit not as sad as you may expect judging by the rest of the movie.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Anonymous
Bus crash, visual
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Does a plane crash?
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no, but two characters are nearly hit by a train
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Anonymous
We see a character preparing to attempt suicide with a gun, but he moves it away from himself at the last moment. He does fire a shot into the ceiling, which is heard. He then answers the door with the gun in his hand, which frightens the teen standing outside. He tells the teen “I’m not gonna shoot you” and says the gunshot noise was the generator. Nobody actually gets shot or shot at.
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