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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • A girl induces a crab to pinch a horse, played for comedy.
  • A drowned body is briefly seen.
  • A teenage girl repeatedly hits a teenage boy with whom she has a love-hate relationship, slapping his face, kneeing his groin and kicking his shin.
  • A group of young boys playfully throw a cricket ball at one another and at a teenage girl.
  • The main character is barefoot throughout the film and on several occasions walks on rough or rocky ground with obvious discomfort and pain, but appears unharmed.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • An old man drinks gin and smokes a pipe in several scenes.
  • A teenage girl purchases gin and tobacco for her grandfather's use.
  • A teenage girl lights her grandfather's pipe for him, inhaling a puff; the scene is played for comedy.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Several references are made to a girl's parents drowning.
  • A teenage girl is mocked and bullied throughout the film (without physical violence) for being poor.
  • Several intense arguments between a boy and a girl.

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Violence & Gore

  • A teenage boy slips on a rock, hitting his head and knocking himself unconscious. The actual impact is not seen onscreen but he is later seen bandaged in a hospital bed. Blood visible in both scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A teenage boy almost drowns in the sea.
  • A boy lies injured in a hospital and his survival is in doubt.

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