To anyone reading this with concerns - the film was fully certified as animal safe by the American Humane Society. Read their story on it, it describes every scene and how well the animals were treated. It really helped me get through the tough parts.
Towards the end of the film, Marty sees an old friend across the room but is pulled away by something urgent he needs to do. His friend is left hanging and we never do see them talk again.
we see rachel with a black eye and she says she has been abused by her husband. we later learn that this is fake, but we do see him throw things at her and yell at her later
The main character's family are very flawed to the point of outright abuse, but *probably* don't cross that line.
Marty's mum does love him but lies about being ill at the beginning of the film to try to stop him from leaving the country for his table tennis career. It's implied that this has happened before, and Marty largely ignores it.
There's a scene later on where his uncle almost gets him arrested for "stealing" his final salary cheque, to try and coerce him into staying in the US a second time. At this point, though, a) Marty's actions are often dangerous and self-destructive, and he won't stop any other way; b) it's implied that the cop was never actually going to arrest him for real (his uncle paid off said cop to scare Marty).
It's unclear exactly what her motive is, but at one point Rachel does go back to her abusive husband (though she herself points out she has little choice). She then immediately tells him the child she's carrying isn't his, and is pretty clearly not in love with him at all throughout the entire film -- I'd say it's more resignation than forgiveness.
I would say the most stressful dog related part was the bathtub scene once it falls thru. So I would encourage sensitive folx to just look away when Marty hops in the bathtub for at least a few minutes. Not necessary to the plot. Just fast forward
For a good hour or more of the movie, there’s a dog who is hurt, separated from his owner, lost, chased after a car that’s driving away from him, sees multiple owners get shot, is overall confused and having a very very bad day. The dog doesn’t die, but if you are made sad by movies where a dog is sad, then you should be prepared to probably be sad.
The paddle scene wasn’t inherently sexual but it was very debasing in a way that made me uncomfortable. You also see his butt in a way that could trigger folx.
Mild spoiler:
You could argue also that Marty only has sex with Gwenyth’s character at one point to get an valuable object as being sexually manipulative but it was consensual (albeit deceitful)
main character says things about sucking his d*** towards other men (in an antagonizing way) and there is a whole humiliation spectacle involving one man spanking another repeatedly.
There are a few moments with injury and blood, but I wouldn't call any of it excessive. There is the moment where a man's arm is crushed which is pretty visceral, but its not dwelled on or terribly dramatic.
When Marty returns to Penn Jillette’s house with Abel Ferrar’s character to get the dog, his lackey looks in a window and says something like, “I don’t see anything.” Then, there’s a sudden shotgun blast
Very technically? There is an arrest but (spoilers) it's mostly a stunt to get the main character to do what his family wants, essentially by blackmailing him.
The female lead goes to hospital because she's been shot/grazed by a bullet, and to give birth.
There's a distressing moment where she's pulled away on a stretcher and separated from her partner, and she's yelling for him not to leave her, but there's never a moment where you think she might not live (we later revisit the hospital, but it's the maternity ward where she's sleeping peacefully and the protagonist meets his kid for the first time -- the tone is joyful).
Not openly but I felt like the son of the orange ping pong balls man might be in the spectrum and when Marty gets angry with him he yells at him things like you are useless, you know nothing, grow up, etc. and the boy gets overwhelmed and throw the balls through the window. I did not like that scene.
Multiple camera flashes at several points (photos taken with the players at start of the English Open, then lots when Endo wins, and later seen throughout match in Japan).
Also various gunshot flashes in the dark at the New Jersey farmhouse towards the end.
Briefly -- one of the key secondary characters is a famous actress and she's observed and discussed across a hotel restaurant by some journalists. Later, Marty sneaks into her play rehearsal to watch her.
no, but SPOILERS - a pregnant woman is shot in the shoulder. she is taken to the hospital and we see her alive and seemingly okay later having given birth
No, but there's a pretty out-of-nowhere upsetting moment where a character threatens to take a hammer to a pregnant woman's stomach if another character doesn't do what he says. It never comes anywhere close to that since the other character immediately acquiesces.
- A man tells another man not to be “such a Jew” when he’s being tight with money
- In a scene where Marty and Tyler, the Creator’s character are scamming a ping pong game, Tyler “challenges” Marty to a match, and he says that he didn’t know “Your people” played this game
- Two uses of the N-word. One by a black character in a reclaimed way; another by a white person against the same character
man in his early 20s and a woman who is at least in her 40s (i don’t believe her age is ever stated but the actress is in her early 50s) have a sexual relationship
Marty introduces Rachel as his sister (she isn’t) and later on says she is pregnant with his kid, so the character seems to think along these lines when he hears that
@loonz spoilers - multiple instances. When Marty and his partner win big and celebrate by ghost riding the whip, and then again when Marty finds the missing dog at an old house, they crash into the porch and drive through a cornfield
a bathtub falls on a man causing his arm to break with the bone exposing. this scene is chaotic and there are multiple close ups of the injury
a man is struck over the head with a trophy. he is seen with a swollen face in a pool of blood immediately after.
a man is stabbed in the stomach, this is pretty brief.
a shootout leaves a few people dead (most of these are quick shots with brief amounts of blood) and one person shot in the shoulder (wound is clearly seen)