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Sex & Nudity
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- There is a dance at the beginning of the film and both Ernest and his friend and some others at a black high school are flirting with girls and dancing closely.
Violence & Gore
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- A girl with a heart condition collapses.
- A protesting crowd threatens and sometimes beats some of the black kids and adults.
- A man tells a soldier with a bayonet to "stick her," referring to a black girl trying to get into (all-white) Central High School.
- A brick with a note reading "Dynamite next time" is thrown through a black woman's window.
- A boy's grandpa talks to him about a 14-year-old black boy who was killed for saying "Hi, baby" to a white girl.
- A black student is beaten up (off camera).
- The girl with the heart condition endures a long descent down the stairs during which white students taunt her and throw food at her. They then dump her books and papers and scatter them across the floor.
- A black boy steps on broken glass left in the shower by a couple white students. We hear crunching and see a bloody footprint left on the tile.
- A pair of white students threaten a black student by inferring that they're going to throw his body into a river. One then pulls out a knife, to which the black student responds by pulling out a bigger knife and scaring the white boy away.
- A black student chases a white student through the school after the white student pushes a black girl off the bottom steps of the staircase (she is uninjured). He then tackles the white boy and almost punches him but is stopped.
- A man tells a black student over the phone that he'll be shot.
Profanity
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- About 20 uses of nigger and other racial epithets. Minor profanities like "hell."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Parents drink wine but in a celebratory way.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The movie takes place during a very frighting time, and younger viewers or those sensitive to racial tensions might be upset by the racist chants or depictions of white students beating up black students. The scene of the girl having food thrown at her is especially sad and may upset some viewers.
