The Holdovers

Movie • 2023 • Comedy  

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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
This movie contains 38 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Abandonment
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Basically the whole premise of the movie
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Abuse
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Two of the main character briefly mention physical abuse from their respective fathers.
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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People tell lies to protect their egos etc but no one is systematically gaslit
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Is a child abused?
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Two of the main character briefly mention physical abuse from their respective fathers.
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Addiction
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Students smoke and talk about weed
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Is there addiction?
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Giaamatti's character drinks at every chance he gets
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Giamatti and Rudolph's characters drink often throughout, and Giamatti's drunkenness is references by students
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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There's a brief comment from a student mentioning a teacher's inappropriate interest in students.
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
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A character shaves his face in the mirror. There are no cuts or nicks.
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Are any hands damaged?
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A character dislocates his shoulder jumping on gymnastics equipment. He goes to the ER and the dislocation is show, using makeup. His shoulder is reduced and he screams in pain.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Mary's husband died by being crushed under a heavy load. Only talked about, not shown.
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Amputation mentioned humorously— “I’m the one who might lose my arm” after a minor injury.
Vietnam veteran depicted with a hook for a hand.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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A character's shoulder is dislocated though.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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One if the main characters is grieving her only son
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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Yes, in a way that doesn't involve death, but laboral status
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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A character dies prior to the events of the movie. His death is mentioned often and main characters grieve him.
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Disability
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Stephen Thorne plays someone with paranoid schizophrenia and dementia. On the other hand, Dan Aid, an amputee irl, plays a character who lost a hand in Vietnam.
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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You learn at the beginning of the movie that one of the main character's child has died.
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Does a parent die?
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A character claims that his father is dead, but it’s later revealed that his father is alive and institutionalized.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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A character is seen coming out of the shower.
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A river on the school campus is shown multiple times
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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A character shaves their face. A razor is shown on a sink shelf
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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not shown on screen but the word “v*mit” is mentioned
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A character wets the bed.
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Is there farting?
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One small fart from Giamatti as he goes to be drunk
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Giamatti spits a mouthful of alcohol onto the ground in the final scene
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Is there audio gore?
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A character screams in pain when a dislocated shoulder is reduced.
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Large-scale Violence
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The movie takes place in 1970
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Law Enforcement
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A character is institutionalized in a mental hospital.
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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A character's visits his father in a mental institution
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A character goes to the hospital for an injury
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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A character has paranoid schizophrenia and early-onset dementia. As a result, he is institutionalized. He expressed paranoid beliefs in a scene in the hospital (“I think they’re putting something in my food.”)
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Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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A mentally ill person “getting physical” is mentioned more than once, but never shown.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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For only a tiny moment a character looks at the camera and winks
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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A character is pregnant.
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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A character is made fun of for having “women’s underwear” (a speedo swimsuit) in his suitcase.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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The central death in the film is a young Black man. His mother is shown grieving throughout.
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Is there hate speech?
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A character makes a racist joke about a rickshaw in reference to an Asian character
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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One of the students has a porn magazine and you can see a nude woman on the cover
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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A male character looks down a frmale character’s shirt.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Discussion about sex while in Boston
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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A male character warns another character that “they’ll crucify you” if he’s caught crying.
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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A character has early-onset dementia.
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
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A man in a Santa suit sits at a bar the day after Christmas. A character says that his costume is historically inaccurate.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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I would say bittersweet
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Paul mentions having accidentally hit a classmate with his car when he was a student. He specifies the boy had broken ribs and soiled himself.
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Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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