The Royal Tenenbaums

Movie • 2001 • Comedy  

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Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

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Does the dog die?
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Dog is run over by a car at the end and also there is a scene where the young children are taken to a dog fight
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SPOILER *** Royal dies as a result of a heart attack, not explicitly shown
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Is there audience participation?
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Are there entrances from audience?
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Is there live gunfire?
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Is there flying onstage?
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Abandonment
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Richie releases Mordecai into the wild after deciding animals shouldn't be kept as pets.
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The Tenenbaum children were abandoned by their father as children, and a large part of the movie is them dealing with that when he returns to their lives.
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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Not severely or anything but there’s some pretty bad parenting. Royal shoots at Chaz with a BB gun when he is a child, and later takes Ari and Uzi on a montage of committing petty crimes and doing dangerous things
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Royal does repeatedly lie to his family but it’s not really gas lighting more like just being manipulative
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Chass passes on an unhealthy parenting style to his sons, like his dad did.
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Is someone stalked?
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Kinda there’s a private investigater
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Royal’s a pretty bad parent, but not outright abusive (save mistakenly shooting one of his kids with a BB gun).
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Eli has a drug problem, seemingly mostly hallucinogens and cocaine
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Eli (Owen wilson) is seen doing drugs
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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There’s a dog fight, although it’s not shown
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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A dog is run over by a car. Dogs fight with enough aggression that a child has dog blood on him after watching it.
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Does a pet die?
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A pet dog is killed in a car accident. Not shown, but the children whose pet it was do show some distress.
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Two characters attend dog fights a few times in the movie. It is off camera, but you can hear barking
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A dog dies but is not shown and the head of a boar is shown mounted
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there spiders?
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There are no rats but there are mice, shown up close a few times.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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The bird playing Mordecai was kidnapped and held for ransom. Rather than pay the kidnappers, production simply got another bird and explained his changed appearance as the result of stress.
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is someone held under water?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Someone slits their wrists in a suicide attempt. The cutting itself is not shown but we see a lot of blood and later briefly see the cuts on one arm
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Royal fakes difficulty breathing while lying to his family about being ill
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A child is shot in the hand with a BB gun. The BB that remains lodged under his skin many years later is shown.
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Is someone choked?
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Henry briefly falls down a hole and has to climb back up but he is unhurt and it is (very deadpan) played for laughs
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Does someone become unconscious?
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no but a characters finger is chopped off
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Off Screen Margots finger is cut off by an axe.
We see her prosthetic finger multiple times.
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An ankle
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Is someone stabbed?
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Royal is stabbed by Pagoda in two separate instances. He is not seriously harmed and Pagoda helps him both times after stabbing him. It's played for humor.
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it is said Margot disappeared for a week and returned missing half a finger and she is shown with a wooden prosthetic
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Is there a hanging?
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Someone is shoved, but seems unharmed.
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Is there body horror?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Someone is hit in the eye during a fight and diagnosed with a mild corneal injury we briefly see them wearing a patch on their eye
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Is an infant abducted?
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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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SPOILER


Chassie's dog is killed when he's hit by a car
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Royal dies in the film’s final minutes.
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Does someone die?
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Father does at the end
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Chaz’s wife died in a plane crash before the events of the film, Royal dies at the end
Sid
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Royal at the end of the film, Chass’s wife (and mother to two boys) prior to the film’s beginning.
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Does someone cheat?
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*spoilers* Margot is shown as having been repeatedly unfaithful to her husband Raleigh including with Eli. Royal is referred to as having been unfaithful in the past
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Shown as part of a suicide attempt - we see the razor before and the bleeding after, but not the actual act.
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there clowns?
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Not a shower scene but Margot is repeatedly shown lounging in a bath tub.
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there mannequins?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Gross
Is there audio gore?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone spit?
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Does someone vomit?
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Is there farting?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there defecation?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
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Is there copaganda?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Margot's affairs are revealed to her husband and family by a private detective, including her involvement with another woman.
FleetwoodMacNCheez
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Margo is bisexual and cheats. She doesn’t cheat on men with women for vice versa, but still
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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We see Richie in hospital after *spoilers* attempting suicide
jojox
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Is there menstruation?
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We see Richie in hospital after *spoilers* attempting suicide
jojox
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Is electro-therapy used?
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after richie’s attempted suicide, when they all gather in the hospital he is given an injection
kaleidobear
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The father mentions having stomach cancer. I believe they later learn it is a lie.
Anonymous
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Mental Health
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Dudley is diagnosed with a fictional cognitive impairment that has overlapping symptoms with neurodivergence.
BuzzyMcGee
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After Chaz’s wife died in a plane crash that he, his children and his dog survived, he becomes obsessed with his children’s safety, making them do fire drills and panicking that they will be hurt. It’s played off as something funny but it’s honestly quite upsetting
Sid
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Dudley has one upon finding Richie near death
FleetwoodMacNCheez
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Margot declines to eat several times, saying she is not hungry. Her husband tries to persuade her, saying “you need to eat”
Sid
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Unsuccessfully, but there is an attempt.
arifierro
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A character says "I'm going to kill myself tomorrow" and a few moments later takes a blade out of their razor. The act isn't seen but you see blood running down their arms and them found unconscious on the floor. Their blood is seen on the characters who found them as well. Later, the freshly stitched scars are shown.
mossx
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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There's a kid who is going through testing via Margot's husband. There is a portion where he asks a kid to make the same shape out of blocks that he did, and the child does it wrong. There's no punishment for it. The kid shows up randomly thereafter.
Anonymous
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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A kid with a fictional disease called “Heisenbergen syndrome” is experimented on and studied and at the end of the film displayed at a lecture
Sid
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*Spoilers* Richie says “I’m going to kill myself tomorrow” before his attempt (if you want to skip it’s the part where he’s in the bathroom cutting his hair and beard)
Emetephobe
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Someone cuts their wrists, the act itself isn’t shown but we see blood and later cuts on the arm are briefly shown
jojox
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There is a scene where Chaz pulls Royal into a small storage closet with board games. It is a tight space but they are not trapped.
Chel
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Is there misophonia?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Uzi and Ari swim with Royal
Anonymous
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Swearing.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Paranoia
3
A P.I. is hired to follow Margot
FleetwoodMacNCheez
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Not really, but it's a Wes Anderson film, so there are moments when characters stare directly into the camera.
FleetwoodMacNCheez
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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12
Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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21
Does a pregnant person die?
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21
Are there abortions?
24 supporters
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
64 supporters
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14
Is there hate speech?
40 supporters
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24
No
1
10
Racially charged insults to a black character
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16
Is there aphobia?
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5
Are there fat jokes?
0 supporters
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0
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15
Is a minority is misrepresented?
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5
Does the black guy die first?
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Yes
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No n words but Royal throws some racially-based digs at Henry. Calls him Coltrane and such.
FrolickingSpock
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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13
Does an LGBT person die?
0 supporters
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20
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Raleigh sometimes chuckles at Dudley's eccentricities, but he seems to find them interesting and endearing
BuzzyMcGee
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Yes
17
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3
22 year age gap between the actors. It’s briefly mentioned.
just_here_for_the_cake
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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0
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4
Yes
2
No
1
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Royal mentions his religious heritage in passing
FleetwoodMacNCheez
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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99 supporters
Yes
35
No
1
12
Richie and margot are adoptive siblings and enter into a romantic relationship. although they aren't blood related it can still make people uncomfortable.
scarywolfheads
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In Margot’s life flashback, there’s a nude woman with breasts exposed.
just_here_for_the_cake
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Briefly mentioned in the montage about Margot's past.
FleetwoodMacNCheez
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Is there bestiality?
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9
Is there BDSM?
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Yes
14
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nudity is shown once but it is a very short scene
futurafree
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Is someone sexually objectified?
0 supporters
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6
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0
Sexism
Yes
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10
Sickness
Does someone have a chronic illness?
17 supporters
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5
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1
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
0 supporters
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8
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5
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Royal lies to his family that he is, though.
just_here_for_the_cake
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Social
Is existentialism debated?
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4
Yes
10
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Royal and Pagoda are very briefly
Sid
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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6
Are there fat suits?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Royal dies, but everyone manages to move on with their lives and progress as people.
just_here_for_the_cake
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
Yes
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1
5
We don't see it but they mention a characters wife dying in a plane crash many times.
Anonymous
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
1 supporters
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32
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0
3
Eli drives into the front of the house at high speed, killing a dog
Sid
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28
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0
6
A dog is run over by a car towards the end of the movie. Not shown fully on screen but we see the car crashed into the side of a building
jojox
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Yes
7
No
14
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There are BB guns but nothing more
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0
1
When Richie slits his wrists
Sid
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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