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Martin Sheen and Patty Duke in A Matter of Justice (1993)

Parents guide

A Matter of Justice

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Severe
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Severe

Sex & Nudity

Mild
1 of 3 found this mild
A couple meet at a bar. Then they are shown kissing and the girl starts to unbutton her dress and the guy also starts to unbutton his shirt. Afterwards the woman removes her bra but her breasts are not shown. Then it is inferred that they have sex. The breasts are shown in the DVD version.
In another scene a couple appears having sex. The woman is on the top and both are naked; however nothing is shown. We can see some thrusting but they're interrupted.
A woman appears having sexual intercourse with a man that is not her husband. She's on the top but apparently they have finished.
Throughout the film a woman wears short skirts and very provocative clothing with the purpose of catching men's attention.
A woman tells her husband in the hospital that his body is "fine" without her rubbing Vapor-rub on it.
A woman tells a man that they're going to have a "nasty nap".
"whore" is said once.

Violence & Gore

Severe
1 of 1 found this severe
A man figths with two men because of his wife, who was flirting with them.
A man slaps his wife but inmediatly he apologizes.
A man is stabbed to death by another man. Then his blood is shown and the man who killed him stamps on it and leaves a trace of blood footprints.
A couple are in a car with their granddaughter but then a man in the middle of the highway aks them for help and a woman goes to the back door and takes out the little girl. Then the man hits the girl's grandfather and her grandmother is trying to get her back.
A man is having an argue with a woman and then a little girl with a teddy bear enters the room and she's asking something to her mother. But when the man gets irritated of it, he pulls the teddy bear very violently from the girl, yells at her and throws the teddy bear away.
A man slaps a woman four times and pushes her outside the car they are in.
A woman wails in grief over the murder of her son.
Dusty's behavior is particularly malicious, sadistic, selfish and disturbing, especially towards her baby daughter, often verbally abusing her and neglecting her.
A baby girl wanders towards the undertow of ocean waves after her mother abandons her to get it on with a random man. The baby's father rescues her.
A little girl stares listlessly at a gruesome film, presumably a horror film, on a television. Screams and cries are heard on the film, and a woman being attacked is briefly visible.

Profanity

Mild
1 of 1 found this mild
Very few profanity. The strongest word is possibly wh*r*.
Some sexual innuendo, such as Dusty telling her latest catch that they're going to have a "nasty nap".
A racial slur is said once ("coloureds"). A recnecky guy also tells a black detective to "git offa my property, boy!" and threatens to blow his head off.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

There are many people driking especially when they are at the bar.
A woman is always smoking or drinking.
Cocaine is implied to be used by a couple of minor characters.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Severe
1 of 1 found this severe
The treatment of the little girl is often horrible and heart-wrenching to view. It is implied that she was kidnapped because she has been given her dead father's insurance money. She is pulled into a car and she screams as it drives away. It is also implied that the girl's mother will eventually raise her to seduce men for extra money. The child is dragged forcibly from a courtroom, cries at her father's funeral, has a teddy bear ripped from her arms, is nearly hit by a car and is forced to watch a violent film on TV. Her mother abandons her at a beach where she nearly drowns, and also leaves her home with a prostitute who neglects to babysit her.
The stabbing of the marine is very upsetting and violent.
Dusty's sociopathic behavior is disturbing to watch.

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    • 12
  • United States
    • TV-14

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