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(2003)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing violent content, language, brief sexuality and drug use - all involving teens
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • You see a girl showering in the background of a locker room (rear nudity).
  • Two boys shower together and kiss each other on the lips.
  • A guy kisses his girlfriend. The girlfriend acknowledges that her upcoming "appointment" might have something to do with their recent camping trip.

Violence & Gore

  • A teenage boy corners a teenage couple in a meat locker. He plays "eeny meeny miny moe" to decide which one to kill. We hear the couple begging for mercy.
  • A girl is shot in the face, with blood splattering behind her (but there's no entry wound).
  • A teenage boy is shot in the chest when he steps out of the classroom. The teacher drags him back into the classroom leaving a bloody trail. A man is shot three times, and he slumps down. Two boys are shot in the chest.
  • Several other teens are gunned down (seen from a distance). We see several corpses as the camera glides across rooms and down hallways.
  • There are little sounds heard other than gunshots when people are shot, however.
  • A boy plays a video game in which the objective is to shoot people in the back.

Profanity

  • A boy says his parents are being retarded as an insult (same scene shown a couple times from different points of view)
  • 13 fucks, 6 shits, and 4 bitches. Also 4 instances of "hell" and "God".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Smoking: a couple students smoke on the field.
  • Two student workers sneak into the cafeteria cooler and smoke what looks like pot.
  • One student's father is drunk while driving him to school. He swerves all over the road and sideswipes a car. We are later told the father is an alcoholic.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The shooting sequence is extremely disturbing.
  • Three teenage girls are bulimic, and can be heard vomiting in the bathroom.
  • The scenes of minor bullying can still be somewhat intense due to its realism.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Nothing really happens in the movie until the final 15 minutes, where two characters go on a shooting rampage. The blood and the sound of the guns is very jarring and realistic. The entire segment may disturb some viewers.

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