Parents guide

As two characters enter a small den housing prostitutes, one of the women quickly covers up her bare breasts, which can be seen for a few seconds.

A young prostitute gets in a client's car. She agrees to give him a handjob. We don't see the act itself.

Some prostitutes can be seen soliciting clients early on in the film.

The two leads, Dawn and Sy, kiss passionately a number of times.

Dawn and Sy have a passionate sex scene. Nothing explicit is shown, but he can be seen getting on top of her while she hands him over a condom.

A woman is shot in the stomach with a high powered gun and dies instantly.

A man is seemingly stabbed in the back while being interrogated. He dies immediately.

A man is stabbed in the knee with a knife. We later see him in pain as he bandages his wound.

A boy is hit on the back of the head and mugged for his bicycle and wallet.

A man is shot in the head with a high powered gun (offscreen) causing his blood to spray his passenger's face. When the camera cuts back to him, half of his face is missing and his head is completely covered in blood. VERY GRAPHIC.

A cop attempts to kill a prostitute at the start of the film and pursues her across Los Angeles.

A man knocks out another man by punching him in the face before hijacking the latter's car. The unconscious man can be seen briefly with blood trickling down his nose.

A woman is dumped into a trash can after being interrogated and then shot dead. The act is shown from a distance.

Frequent use of "f*ck", "damn it", "sh*t" and other strong language.

A drunk man can be seen lazily driving a car for a few moments.

Dawn can be seen injecting heroin into her arms to mask her pain.

Lumley the psychotic cop is a serial killer that kills prostitutes. He spends most of the film chasing Dawn and her friend Sy. He uses violent interrogation and murder as a means of locating his two targets. His whole onscreen presence can be disturbing to some viewers.

The entire film has a bleak and melancholic atmosphere to it. The streets of Los Angeles look run down and hopeless from the perspective of the homeless characters.

The final few minutes of the film are very emotional.