Does the dog die?
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Cape Fear
Movie • 1991 • Thriller
ReportSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
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Cleptoria
Nothing is seen on screen. An actress emotionally describes the noises the dog made as he died from poisoning. Mute the tv as the Nick Nolte drives home after an urgent call from his wife to avoid hearing the distressing description.
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No; there are no trans persons that we know of in the movie. The evil villain is dressed as a woman and wearing a wig at one point, but that's a disguise, and he doesn't do it for the purpose of committing sexual assault.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
An ex-con mentions being assaulted by a group of men more than once in prison, but it's not said jokingly or treated as comedy by the movie.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Abandonment
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Is someone stalked?
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Sid
Cady stalks the family by hanging around outside their house, breaking into it and spying on them
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geillis
The family argue constantly throughout the film, father slaps daughter.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Sid
Max Cady gaslights Danielle
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cruelintention
15 year old is groomed and molested as a major plot point
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Addiction
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cruelintention
Mention of the daughter using weed. Then she smokes weed with the perpetrator
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Animal
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Does a horse die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There are no horses.
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Ollie2
Well, to answer the other commenter, people have marked NO, because they can read correctly, and they know this category is not meant to include dog, cat, and horse deaths.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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There are no rabbits.
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Does a cat die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There are no cats.
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Does a pet die?
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Sid
The dog
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not at all, not the slightest hint of any, but the entire climax of the movie takes place on a river in Florida, parts of it in the dark, and several shots of the water gave me the alligator chills, if you know what I mean.
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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HeatherEhch
The girls in question are teenage rather than children, but Max's preference skews young so you could say it's at least ephebophilia
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Is someone held under water?
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Someone is handcuffed to a piece of a boat that sinks
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Is rape mentioned?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The villain spent 14 years in jail for the violent rape of a 16-year-old girl, and the entire movie is about his quest for revenge on his attorney, so it's mentioned numerous times. There are also rape scenes.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Three hired goons gang up on the villain, a violent and murderous rapist, and beat him bloody with metal bars and chains. We see him crumpled up on the ground, protecting his head while the hits rain down on him. The scene is like a violent bullying scene, except for the fact that the victim is very far from innocent or defenseless - he soon takes all three of them down. All four are fully grown men.
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Is someone restrained?
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Sid
Cady restrains the family members in the climactic scene and is later handcuffed to part of the wrecked boat by his ankle, drowning him
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cruelintention
Dunno why everyone's being so vague. He's in prison for raping a 16 year old. He beats and rapes a woman (literal rape off screen), then he grooms a 15 year old girl and puts his tumb in her mouth and kisses her. Then later on he gives the mum a choice of being raped herself or raping the 15 year old. He starts to do it to the mother but is interrupted. People need to be less vague on this site.
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HeatherEhch
A bit before the 1 hour mark, when the villain goes home with a woman. It's not prolonged but it's graphic
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Numerous people are garrotted with piano wire
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Is there cannibalism?
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lsr2864
A man takes a bite out of a woman’s cheek, but immediately spits it out.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Sid
Cady is doused in lighter fluid and set alight. He survives and his skin is visibly burned for the rest of the film
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Is there body horror?
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A major character suffers burns. Wouldn't count it as body horror honestly but the prosthetics are pretty grim
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Does a head get squashed?
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Sid
There’s a failed attempt to crush Cady’s head with a rock
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Anonymous
The father is choked into unconciousness.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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HiMyNameIsAlex
Deniro is said to have paid a lot of money in real life to shave his teeth down for the role, then pay upwards of four times more money to have them fixed.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but an eye is swollen shut and bluish after a beating.
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Is there excessive gore?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
I wouldn't say so. The worst things shown are: a big chunk of someone's cheek bitten clear off, two dead people with garotte wounds, and a person with nasty burn blisters all over his face and neck.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
15-year-old girl.
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Death
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Does someone die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Two men and a woman. Two of the deaths are murders.
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Disability
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Does someone cheat?
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Rhosauce
Before the events of the movie and, emotionally, during.
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Are there jump scares?
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spit
Around the 43 minute mark there's a jumpscare. It's only auditory. A phone ringing abruptly in a quiet moment. The whole family flinches from the loud sound.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A wide river in Florida. A storm arrives, the waves get crazy, and the boat that the main characters are on goes completely out control, is smashed to bits on rocks and sinks. Many of the shots make it look like the boat is on the ocean, no land showing. It all happens in the dark of night.
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Is someone eaten?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but a woman has a mouth-sized chunk of her cheek bitten off and spat out. Graphic wound.
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Is there audio gore?
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HiMyNameIsAlex
Answering machine message of explicit detail of dog dying at hands of aggressor.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
We see a man (violent rapist) in his prison cell just before he's released, and we see him leaving the prison.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
We see a badly beaten, but conscious and talking woman in a hospital bed when a man visits her. Filmed in the room and outside in the busy hallway.
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Mental Health
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The villain - a violent rapist - clearly has something wrong with his mind, but we don't see him in a mental hospital/institution or receiving any kind of treatment, and I don't think we hear any diagnoses. The focus isn't on him being mentally ill, but on him being the evil antagonist; we only see him as a monomaniacal, murderous stalker with some degree of religious mania, not as someone who suffers. SPOILER---SPOILER---SPOILER--- The clearest sign that something is wrong with his mind is that he starts speaking in tongues when he's about to die, and that he maintains a menacing and unnatural sort of still eye contact with another character until the very moment he dies (his death approaches steadily), instead of panicking like I daresay anybody else would do out of sheer instinct.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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hockeystick
The daughter is briefly locked in the hold of the houseboat.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Yes, including in their own home.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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In the last scenes Max mocks a trial and talks to the camera saying „Your Honor” a couple of times
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Anonymous
A white man uses the word "N*gro" to describe someone.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
At one point, the evil villain is disguised as a specific woman in order to sneak up on someone. We see him from the back and don't notice that it isn't her - at least I didn't, and we're supposed to be fooled. The fact that he's disguised is used as a horror element, not as a joke.
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A man in his late forties seduces a 15-year-old girl to the point where she lets him tongue-kiss her and doesn't protest when he puts his thumb in her mouth. She's all giggly afterwards. Later on, she realises that he's evil and dangerous, so from that point on she only wants to get as far away from him as possible. He finds her and is in a position to rape her, but something happens that stops it from happening.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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cruelintention
Very large theme of rape and violence towards women
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No diseases at all.
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but a boat is smashed to smithereens.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Sid
Max drowns at the very end
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Is there gun violence?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Including fatal.
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