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(2008)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence, sexuality/nudity, language and some drug use
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Several scenes take place in a strip clip with women in various states of undress and topless. Some women wear bottoms with material covering the very front of their pubic area and minimal coverage in the back. Women walk around and dance, mostly in the background.
  • A man kisses a woman suddenly.
  • Ram injects testosterone in his bare buttocks
  • Only rear male nudity.
  • Women are seen topless continuously throughout in the film.
  • Several posters of shirtless women on the walls of a house, some have the head removed.
  • A couple scenes set in a strip club. In one scene, the main character receives a private dance from a woman in a thong.
  • A topless woman on stage dances erotically wearing only a g-string - the scene is long, graphic, and lingering shots of her from a slight distance.
  • A man has sex with a woman from behind in a bathroom and is shown thrusting behind her after taking cocaine - you can see her breasts, but no male parts.
  • A man is seen looking at porn, and it seen from a distance referencing oral sex but no nudity or detail is seen.

Violence & Gore

  • Choreographed fighting between two men during a wrestling matches as an audiences watch. Some matches include blood and heavy impacts. No serious injuries.
  • A man describes to a woman several injuries he has received over the years. Nothing is shown and not overly descriptive.
  • After a long and especially bloody wrestling match, a man throws up in a dressing and then collapses.
  • Two men fake-fight in a wrestling match, when one is on the floor, he takes a small razor and cuts is forehead to make it look like the other man injured him.
  • In one match, a man staples his nipples with a staple gun, then staples a note to his forehead.He then staples his opponent three times. He then is hit with a plastic leg and with a dustbin. One man is then smashed through glass and thrown through a table wrapped in barbed wire. A man is thrown into barbed wire and briefly gets stuck in it. A decent amount of blood is seen splattered in the ring. Also, a fork is stabbed into a mans chest.
  • A woman throws objects at her father, one hits him in the head.
  • A man purposely rams his thumb into a ham slicer and blood squirts everywhere and he wipes it on his face in front of shocked customers
  • A third wrestling match, no blood in this one.

Profanity

  • 'Goddamn' is said 16 times.
  • 'God' said four times and 'Jesus' said once.
  • 'Hell' is said five times.
  • 'Piss' is said twice.
  • 'Pussy' is said once as an insult.
  • 'Fuck' is said 31 times.
  • 'Damn' is said once.
  • 'Ass' is said 12 times, including paired with 'hole'.
  • 'Shit' is said 19 times.
  • Frequent uses of strong language. 31 uses of "fuck"

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man sells and offers to sell legal and illegal drugs, including steroids, painkillers and 'blow' to another man in a locker room. Some of the drugs are laid out on a bench.
  • A man asks a woman to have a beer with him. At first she declines but then she accepts. They drink beer from bottles at a bar.
  • A man and woman order and drink alcohol while talking at a strip club bar.
  • Many people drink at a bar, and a young woman drinks a shot while talking with a man.
  • A man injects steroids into his butt.
  • A man snorts cocaine.
  • Causal smoking and drinking is shown.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • An adult daughter cries and yells at her father.
  • Some of the wrestling scenes are quite intense.
  • Some emotionally intense scenes and some dark/sad scenes.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Main character pukes and has an heart attack
  • It's heavily implied that randy dies at the end..after going against his doctor's advice, the movie ends with randy performing a top rope jump, and it cuts to black as he does it, and it's likely that he had a heart attack after his jump. Very sad

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