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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language and some aberrant sexual content
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • An older women sensually strokes a younger woman's forearms until the younger women tells her to stop.
  • Contains strong sex, sex references and underage-sex theme
  • The film's theme concerns a teacher having an affair with a student.
  • A coworker peers through a window to see a teacher performing oral sex on an underage student. She is wearing her bra and some cleavage is shown. None of the student's nudity is shown and the act is implied onscreen.
  • A teacher and student meet up and kiss. It is implied they have sex as we later see them doing up their trousers.
  • A student and teacher have sex outdoors at night on the ground. He is shown thrusting on top of her and some moaning is heard. No clear sexual detail or nudity is shown.
  • A teacher and student are shown undressed and it is implied that they had sex. No clear detail is shown, though it is strongly implied the boy is naked.
  • We see a woman in a bathtub and we see her bare legs.
  • A woman facetitiously asks a woman is she wants to 'f*ck' her and 'role around on the floor like lovers'.
  • A boy on the phone says that he has been dreaming of a woman's 'hot, sweet c*nt all morning'.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman ransacks an apartment.
  • Contains infrequent mild violence, including references to school fights.
  • Two boys fight and there is some punching. Not much is shown.
  • A woman yells at a woman and slaps and insults her and uses aggressive language. She pushes the woman into a dresser and glass breaks, though both are seen to be physically unharmed in the next scene.

Profanity

  • P*ss and *rsehole are used.
  • C*nt and f*ck are used once.
  • Strong language, occasionally within an aggressive and/or sexual context.
  • One use of very strong language that is used in a non-aggressive, though sexual, context.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A reference to teenagers smoking and using crack cocaine.
  • Teenagers are shown smoking.
  • Contains scenes of smoking and alcohol consumption
  • Characters are shown to be smoking
  • Alcohol is consumed
  • One scene shows a woman disposing of what may be a spliff, though this is not clear nor are drugs referred to in any further scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Contains intense scenes and emotional distress
  • A scene where a woman slaps a teacher and insults her is quite intense with the background music.

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