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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG for thematic elements and some perilous action
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A couple kisses in the moonlight.
  • Two teenagers kiss brief and mildly.

Violence & Gore

  • A few small fist fights. Some viewers may find them to be intense.
  • We see the corpse of a woman lying on the arms of a man. We see it pale white and with swollen eyes.
  • Multiple surfers with blood draining from cuts or through their noses.

Profanity

  • Not much.
  • Very few uses of "damn" and two uses of "hell".
  • A man calls a teenager "little trash".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Various implications of a teenager in particular buying drugs from gamblers.
  • A man appears to be drunk and attempts to harm two teenagers.
  • A bottle of alcohol in a woman's night-desk.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The last 20 minutes of the movie are very tense and exhiliarating.
  • The movie is very bright, but some themes touched in it may appear to be quite harsh.
  • A man grieves the death of his wife and destroys a kitchen with a bat. Everything is implied.

Spoilers

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Brenda Hesson's death is very emotional, intense and mentally hard to overcome, since it was all so sudden.
  • It is implied that Jay dies in the end. His farewell ceremony is the most emotional scene in the entire film.

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