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- Sex & Nudity (6)
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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1)
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- Spoilers (1)
Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for sexuality |
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Sex & Nudity
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- Robert, the main character, is shown having sex with a "whore". She is laying down topless and he is thrusting into her. Her breasts are shown.
- In another scene, Robert, as with two women who are in bed with him. The women are blindfolding him and there is no sexual act shown, but the women's breasts are shown.
- A scene of cunnilingus. No movement is seen but she's moaning and climaxing
- Robert throws a party, and as the camera passes over the scene, a woman's bare breast is shown.
- Two people have foot/crotch foreplay and then sex, all fully clothed.
- Later, when Robert loses all in a game of three card monte, he stands in front of the table nude, but the tabletop hides any naughty bits which might bother a parent.
Violence & Gore
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- Not a lot of violence, per se, but as the lead character is a doctor in the seventeenth century, there are many scenes of death, bloodletting, surgery, etc. Much of the third act of the film takes place during an outbreak of the bubonic plague, and there are many shots of the dead and dying, including one shot of a corpse floating in the Themes, which is lovingly filmed for at least ten seconds. At one point, a "madwoman" relates a story about why she can never fall asleep again: the last time she slept, her young child wandered off and drowned. Nothing is shown, in a flashback or any other way, but the scene is powerfully described and could frighten a younger viewer.
Profanity
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- The "f-bomb" is dropped hundreds of times, and coarse language is the main part and parcel of the film's dialogue. During the wedding scene, the guests chase the naked groom throughout the palace to the marital bed, all the while singing "F*ck her well, f*ck her well."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Not much, with one notable exception. As this was the seventeenth century, when water and other beverages were unsafe to drink, everyone is shown drinking alcoholic beverages during any cirumstance where they might drink. The main character, Robert, played by the pharmaceutically unlucky Robert Downey Jr., habitually wakes up in a chair, half empty carafe of wine spilling all over him, wondering where he is and why he is in such circumstances. I can recall no instances of anyone smoking or taking any drugs, besides "syrup of roses" and other useless nostrums which were the only medications available to the seventeenth century physician and patient.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The plague kills many people. There are many, many shots of corpses, some of which could be very disturbing. There is a scene where a woman describes the death of her child, which is quite intense. Later, a pregnant woman is killed in order to save the child in her womb.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- During the wedding night scene, there is a prolonged shot of Robert, nude but for some red feathers in a place where no red feathers grow, being chased throughout the castle on his way to the marriage bed. During the whole scene, the revelers are singing "F*ck her well, f*ck her well" Unfortunately for Robert, he doesn't get to do anything of the sort, because his wife is the King''s mistress and he is merely a beard to throw suspicion away from the king by his other jealous mistress(es?).
