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Movie • 2006 • Crime
ReportDito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
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One of the main characters is physically abused by their father.
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Does someone vomit?
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Movie is safe.
Around 14min Giuseppe walks down into the subway with the boombox and starts to unzip his pants like he’s going to pee, and he coughs and gags a little from the smell of the subway, but doesn’t get sick. (It’s not terrible)
Around 14min Giuseppe walks down into the subway with the boombox and starts to unzip his pants like he’s going to pee, and he coughs and gags a little from the smell of the subway, but doesn’t get sick. (It’s not terrible)
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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One of the larger characters of the story is abused physically at home by his father, you see the after math of a beating in one scene and it is also spoken about in the film.
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Not in the traditional sense. The boy who gets hit by the train, does go onto the tracks willingly, and then refuses to get off them until he realizes a train is actually coming toward him. He gets caught on the tracks and can't get off in time.
He is acting in a manner that is threatening suicide, but it wasn't his intention.
He is acting in a manner that is threatening suicide, but it wasn't his intention.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there sexual content?
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There is sexual content depicted between the teenage characters in the film. Most of it is rather mild, but there is a scene that is rather graphic about the content.
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Does a kid die?
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One of the larger characters in the story dies after being hit by a subway train. Another child dies when one of the larger characters in the story hits him in the head with a baseball bat. Another is shot and killed. These are all older teenage boys, and you do not see any gore in the scenes.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Not a sad ending per say. It has a quiet ending where you don't really feel like much of anything has changed or come from telling the story except the story is out in the world.
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Is there blood/gore?
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You see the blood on the clothes, on the faces or body parts, you see bruises and cuts. There really isn't gore though, and anything really physically violent you either see just the very beginning or the aftermath, but not the gore of it.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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One of the larger characters in the show is said to be 'odd' (I'm picking the nicest thing said about him), but looking at the character it is a possibility that they would have been on the autism spectrum. There is never mention of it and the character is just teased for being different.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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I believe there are police lights in the film. They are not focused on, but they are there
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Yes, there is a character who is said to be homosexual, though I don't think that character ever confirms it, and there are slurs pointed at that character. Homophobic slurs are also used as insults in the film as well.
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Is there shakey cam?
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At times yes, usually to stimulate running or a violent occurrence.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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I'm pretty certain yes.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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For the most part these are minor and not focused on in the story, but yes, throughout the entire film there are characters gaslighting other characters and being victim to gaslighting.
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Is there misophonia?
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Not intentional, and not something that causes a reaction from a character, but unintentional in the filming process I am not sure.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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It is possible that there is some drug paraphernalia around in one of the characters apartments, but we never see anyone using a needle in the story.
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Is there hate speech?
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This is a film with a lot of street violence, that takes place in 1986, in a not great neighborhood of NYC. It focuses on many of the characters being teenagers trying to figure their crazy environments out. With that being said, most of the hate speech, teasing, and verbal violence comes from young people who probably just feel the need to be tough in a really messy world. So while there is a lot of cursing, racial/ gender/ sexuality insensitivity, and verbal violence, you do get the sense that much of the time its meant to be grandiose to show the immaturity of the main characters.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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The character that gets hit by the train says something to that effect.
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Is there gun violence?
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People are threatened with guns and at least one character is shot and killed.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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While having a seizure, one of the characters looks like they struggle to breathe.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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There is talk of the father having "attacks", which would lead you to believe at first that there might be anxiety disorders, but it turns out to be seizures.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does someone break a bone?
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There is a lot of violence in the film but nothing extremely auditory or gory just more so people getting beat up, and in fights.
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I believe there are scenes of alcohol consumption, marijuana smoking, and cigarette smoking.
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Does someone spit?
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I think there is some spitting in the film.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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The father of the main character suffers from Epilepsy, I believe but it isn't actually mentioned, and on screen we see him suffer from a grand mal.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Unless they mention something really quickly about one of the female characters I don't believe so.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a parent die?
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I don't believe the father dies in the movie, but one of the story lines of the movie is that the main character goes back home because his father is really sick.
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In a way. There is a section at the very beginning where the main character explains another character to be called sister, by their sibling, even though the character is male. It is used as a joke.
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