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- Spoilers (6)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- A woman grabs a man's crotch, they then kiss.
- Some sexual references.
- A man and woman kiss very quickly on a bed. There is no sex or nudity.
- A man and woman are making out. The man's shirt comes off but nothing after that as it cuts straight away.
- Karen bends down and puts her head near Henry's crotch implying she is about to perform oral sex. She unzips his pants and the scene cuts.
- Karen's side nipple is seen twice extremely briefly twice during a scene where her and Henry make out on the bed. Not explicit nor sexual.
- In a prison scene, a man is briefly seen receiving oral sex. Blink and you could miss it
Violence & Gore
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- Several scenes of graphic violence, where lots of blood is often shown.
- One character is something of a loose cannon and violence usually occurs around him.
- A man with blood all over his torso is running and screaming claiming he's been shot. Some blood is shown dripping everywhere but not too graphic.
- There are several instances where people get roughed up by gangsters.
- The violence portrayed is quite realistic and portrayed as cold and often gets very brutal.
- A man is bashed once on the head with a wine bottle. He has a slightly bloody bandage afterwards.
- A frozen corpse is discovered in the back of a meat truck. No blood.
- This severity of the violence will be disturbing to some viewers. A lot of it is abrupt.
- There is occasional graphic violence in this film. Although not as extreme as Casino, this film did set a standard for dark and violent mob films.
- A man is brutally beaten, thrown in the trunk of a car and presumed dead. Later on he is found to be alive then stabbed and shot numerous times whilst covered in blood. Very graphic and disturbing.
- The violence is spread out, but when it happens, it's often graphic, shocking, and very gruesome.
- Jimmy and Henry beat up (graphically and brutally) a man who owes them money. They then hold him over the fence of a den of lions, ready (and profanely threatening) to throw him in, if he doesn't give them the money. Graphic and brutal.
- Knowing a lot of what's portrayed in this film is based on real events, it goes to show you the horrible nature of the mafia.
- A father hits his son twice and whips his back with a belt 5 times. The boy has a somewhat bruised face after.
- A man hits another man's face with a gun eleven times. He grunts in pain and blood is seen on his face from a distance.
- Two gangsters beat another gangster. One clubs him with a pistol on the head/face offscreen and the other stomps on his head, we see fleeting glances of his boot crunching onto his face. The victim is partly unconscious, although the pistol whipping causes brief blood spray. His face is then seen mostly covered in blood and bruises, and part of his suit is bloodied.
- A man is shot in the foot with blood spurts; he winces briefly and a bloody wound is seen for a second.
- A man is swiftly killed by six gunshots to the chest with a pistol. Blood appears on his shirt.
- A man yips as his face is slammed against a car seat five times, and then punched three times. Blood is visible on his eyes, nose, and mouth. His face is then seen badly bruised in black-and-white for a few seconds. Two men then threaten to feed him to lions at a zoo.
- A man and his wife are shown dead in a car with bloody bullet wounds momentarily. Some blood is splattered across the windows.
- A man is shot in the head. Tons of blood splatters all over a bed and walls. He is then shot several times more offscreen.
- Two corpses are found in a garbage truck with bloody bullet holes in their faces.
Profanity
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- The words "ass", "balls", "bastard", "bitch", "bullshit", "cocksucker", "crap", "damn", "dick", "dickhead", "fag", "fuck", "goddamn", "jerkoff", "motherfucker", "nigger", "piss", "prick", "shit", & "whore" are used.
- 300 uses of "fuck" & "motherfucker".
- Cinemax content advisory: rated R for graphic violence (GV), graphic language (GL), and adult content (AC).
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Several of the scenes where drugs are being used take place in a kitchen, filled with equipment used to make drugs.
- Cocaine is snorted quite a few times. Mostly implied rather than explicit except for scenes in which we see the character's facial reactions.
- A major character is addicted to drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and quaaludes, and becomes a drug dealer.
- A scene happens where a frantic women empties a package of cocaine into a toilet. You see the powder.
- The drug use is pretty strong
- Moderate to severe, drugs play a major role in the downfall of some characters.
- There is frequent smoking and drinking.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A man beats his son with belt as punishment while the mother tries to stop him.
- Several fatal shootings, stabbings, and beatings are shown with visible blood. This is quite frightening.
- The final twenty minutes is particularly intense, taking on a distressing tone that noticeably differs from the rest of the film.
- The gangsters act pretty twisted/disturbed.
- This is a very dark and serious movie.
- In one scene a gangster gets tortured/coereced by being dangled over a tiger at an exhibit at a zoo.
- There are instances of bloody violence, which can often get graphic.
- Joe Pesci's character is a raging psychopath, and scenes involving him can be intense as violence is always a possibility.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A man is killed by having an ice pick shoved into the back of his head. The pick is shown getting pulled out with blood dripping. This is mostly shown and is very disturbing.
- A gangster held in the trunk of a car is stabbed and shot several times in the upperbody. He gasps briefly and bloody wounds are shown for a second. Fairly brief but still pretty graphic and disturbing.
- Three men dig up a rotting corpse. One man vomits due to the stench of rotting flesh. No blood or gore.
- A man is shot in the back of the head; blood briefly spews from the exit wound in his face. He falls over and blood pools beneath him for a few seconds. Very disturbing and graphic.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- When Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up the body of Billy Batts, Henry throws up and some vomit is visible. This might be disturbing to some viewers.
- Jimmy and Karen get into a drug-filled paranoia state. This culminates into a very intense scene in which Karen is offered dressed by Jimmy, but suspecting this is a trap to hold Karen hostage (as possibly a warning to Henry, not to talk to the police), she walks away. This is part of last 30 or 40 minutes of the movie, in which Jimmy Burke's real self was portrayed more accurately, killing and using people.
