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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for drug and sexual content, language and a brief violent image
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • There is a fast forwarded recording of a man and a woman having sex in many different positions, and we hear them moaning (we see that they are nude but there is no evident detail).
  • A man takes an image to a topless woman and puts it on a hologram. He looks at it and presses the button to see the evolution of the hair growth to see who she is.
  • A man and a woman go to a man's apartment, she lies on his bed, they kiss, she unbuckles his pants and they wake up in bed together later (it is implied that they have had sex); he is bare-chested and she is nude to the waist (her bare breasts are shown).
  • A man imagines a waitress being topless and thus we see her bare breasts (cartoon style).

Violence & Gore

  • A man accidentally hits his head against a counter. Upon examining the injured area, he sees blood on his hand.
  • Police or other authorities zap a protestor with an electric wand and then abduct him. He was revealed to have died.
  • A man chokes on food, struggles to breathe, tries to give himself the Heimlich maneuver, throws himself on the back of a chair, and falls to the floor motionless while another man watches; he then vomits, gags and coughs (we see goo).
  • A man imagines two men morphing into large bugs. A man crushes a fly on the dashboard of a car and we see the smudge of its remains. A man bathes himself and his dog when he sees bugs crawling on them both.
  • A hallucinating man scratches his head violently while bugs crawl all over him; he showers and continues to scratch frantically, the bugs continue to crawl over him, and he sprays himself with bug spray.
  • A man with many eyes covering his face and head speaks to a man and reads him a list of all of the mistakes he made in his life (we hear that he will be doing this for eternity).
  • A man imagines his head being shot off by a policeman. The effect is cartoonish (headless) and a bug splats on the camera.
  • A few scenes where a man point a gun at people, although no intent to shoot them is implied.
  • Two men threaten each other with fighting: they argue, one man finds a hammer, the other a stone and they swing at each other briefly.
  • A man collapses onto a hospital floor and vomits due to Substance D. He is taken to rehab and wrapped in a green blanket.

Profanity

  • 22 "s" words,
  • 1 slang term for sex ("put out"),
  • 1 for male genitals ("p*cker")
  • 8 hells,
  • 1 S. O. B.,
  • 3 uses of "Jesus," 2 of "Christ" and 1 use each of "Jesus Christ," "My God," "Oh God," "Oh Jesus," "Oh my God" and "Swear to God."
  • At least 32 "f" words (1 used with "mother"),

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Men take dangerous drugs and impacts are explained at the end how people get trauma and permanent brain damage. Some are even dead. See Violence & Gore
  • A man is hallucinating from his drug use and imagines bugs crawling all over him and his place. He ends up showering (nothing explicit seen beyond his bare chest and back).
  • A woman invites a man to go back to her place, drop some "death" (Substance D), and get some tequila. We then see both of them looking and acting high after unseen drug use.
  • A man's boss offers him a cigarette, but he declines, saying he's getting off that (the boss smokes).
  • There's talk of a drug called Substance D that many people are using and/or dealing, as well as a terrorist group that's manufacturing it.
  • A man and another man talk about the cost of coke and he then goes through some process of separating the oil from the coke using some sort of aerosol and then putting that bag in a freezer.
  • A man gives some of the drugs, in pill form, to another man.
  • A man picks up an unlit "roach" (marijuana joint) from an ashtray (leftover from someone else).
  • A man rolls a joint and then gives it to another who smokes it while also having a beer.
  • A man hears a radio personality talking about committing suicide via downers and wine and prepares that for himself, but then goes to the liquor store to buy a more expensive bottle of wine (since his was cheap). He then takes the pills and has the wine, but then hallucinates (seeing a human type figure with many eyes all over its head).
  • A fast forwarded tape from a surveillance shows people in a store buying coke.
  • Substance D users are traced and scanned, suspicious to police activity.
  • A conversation is heard on a surveillance tape that the man wants to buy 10.
  • A field of flowers that creates an illegal drug (Substance D) is shown in a field.
  • A man gives a woman pills of Substance D and the man take the Substance D. They both sallow the pills and kiss.
  • A man watches a man smoke a joint and begins to have a blurry vision and hallucinations. He struggles covering his hand on his eyes and seeing images of his kids.
  • The film is about drug addiction, so there are frequent strong references .
  • Repeated scenes of people taking multiple pills, and drinking alcohol.
  • Joints are rolled and smoked by dealers.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Despite the occasional humorous scene, the film has a constantly bleak and depressing tone.
  • While not very intense, a man attempts suicide, then hallucinates in the process. Narration during this scene describes his method of suicide in detail (drug overdose).
  • A man tries to attempt suicide by overdosing on pills however he hallucinates.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A man makes a remark about someone cutting off a part of the male anatomy. We hear that a man may have suffered damage to one of the hemispheres of his brain.
  • A man shoots a gun in the air after pointing it at two other men and then at his own head to test the homemade silencer.
  • There is a list of names of people who either died or became very ill from abuse of a drug. Some or deceased(dead) or have permanent brain damage or psychosis.
  • The gas pedal of a car sticks, and the car rushes through traffic before slowing down to a stop.
  • A man's sins were read and stated that the man punched his baby sister and kicked his dog.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Bob uses the drug and is doing so as an undercover agent, but has become hooked on it and uses it when not on the job.
  • Bob discovers that those running the rehab facility are also farming the drugs.

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