A Shock to the System (1990) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman wakes up after being drugged and mistakenly thinks she had sex with a man. Then they really have comically loud sex (but nothing is shown).

Violence & Gore

  • A man nearly gets electrocuted and flies across the room, but it's played for comic effect.
  • A vagrant gets pushed onto a subway track in the path of a train but you don't actually see him get hit.
  • A woman is about to get electrocuted but the scene ends before you see her die.
  • Two men get blown up on a boat, but all you see is the exploding boat.
  • A man commits suicide by popping an entire bottle of downers into his mouth and chewing them up like candy.

Profanity

  • Barely enough uses of the "f word" to justify an R rating.
  • Lots of blasphemy...Michael "Garbage Mouth" Caine cuts loose with 10-12 GD's to make his point.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man serves a woman gets served a drink laced with downers so he can have an alibi while he sets up a trap to kill someone. The next morning she wakes up mistakenly thinking that she had sex with the man.
  • Frequent cigar smoking by several characters.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Graham plots the murders of his wife and boss. Neither of them are nice people and you shouldn't feel bad for them, it may still be upsetting to some.
  • Graham misplaces an engraved lighter at a crime scene leading to a climactic game of cat and mouse as he tries to recover it while Lt Laker tries to obtain it in order to bust Graham for his crimes.

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Violence & Gore

  • Several people die, but the violence is mostly implied.
  • A man is implied to die in a plane crash but it's not shown (but you do hear the crash sound).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man commits suicide by eating an entire bottle of downers.

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