Trainspotting

Movie • 1996 • Crime  

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Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
This movie contains 49 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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forufourfour
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Tommy's kitten is shown alone after his death and was neglected beforehand. We're told it was fine once it was found.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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no mental illness is specifically mentioned, but some of their actions could be attributed to mental illness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Is there screaming?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Abandonment
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TheCassandraComplex
A baby is neglected and dies.
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Abuse
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Neglect is a form of abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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There's a graphic moment where a woman is hit with a glass in a bar.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Child neglect.
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Addiction
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If you're asking this trainspotting probably isn't for you.
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Is there addiction?
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This movie is about heroin addiction.
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Begbie
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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pumpkinattack
A bull terrier is shot with a BB gun in the rear.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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TheCassandraComplex
Tommy’s kitten is fine.
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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
Is someone drugged?
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forufourfour
No-one is drugged unknowingly or against their will
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Is there pedophilia?
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mileyxilsa
The main character unknowingly has sex with a minor
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mileyxilsa
There is an abstract scene where the main character imagines going inside a toilet
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Is rape mentioned?
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TheGrandDisciple
Begbie is a violent and ill tempered alcoholic who starts bar fight or sucker punches and beats people down
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TheCassandraComplex
Main character’s parents restrain him to prevent him from seeking heroin.
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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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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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone burned alive?
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forufourfour
Renton hallucinates descending into a grave-like hole in the ground but is not covered over
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Is there body horror?
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TheCassandraComplex
Main character hallucinates a deceased baby crawling on the ceiling and turning her head around 180 degrees to look at him.
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Is there amputation?
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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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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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TheGrandDisciple
The main character possibly has a seizure while is O.D.ing on Heroin
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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TheGrandDisciple
Renton is pulled and dragged down stairs by his legs but he doesn't fall
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Colleen Werner
No, but there is a scene where the main character is standing atop a brick wall and seems to consider jumping off.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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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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TheGrandDisciple
A dead and slightly decaying baby is shown on the camera. Dead at least a couple of days to a week. It was graphic and the camera pans across her at least twice. She's shown in the same state later crawling across the ceiling during a withdrawal hallucination
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
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TheGrandDisciple
In a sence. Renton is forced into breaking his sobriety amd injecting a batch of heroin. So he sacrificed his sobriety
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Does someone die?
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forufourfour
[Spoiler] Tommy dies offscreen from Toxoplasmosis with AIDS complications
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does a major character die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Jessie_1904
This movie is about heroin addicts, there is an overdose scene

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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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Are there jumpscares?
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Anonymous
Not a jumpscare per se, but still: the protagonists withdrawal-induced hallucinations make him see a baby crawling on the ceiling whose head spins around Exorcism-style before it suddenly drops onto the camera.
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Are there mannequins?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there razors?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Gross
Is someone eaten?
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cassandrasaurus
Quite explicitly, someone has explosive diarrhea and is soiled.
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Does someone vomit?
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calvie
No one v*ms in this film. There is two scenes where gagging is heavily involved, but no v*m imagery or sound.
The first scene is toward the beginning when a character is searching desperately for a bathroom and begins gagging on the way. Later, the same character emerges from water and spits out water, but no v*m.
The second scene with gagging is where a person goes to bed rather intoxicated and wakes up, gagging about what they did to the sheets.
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Is there farting?
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Does someone spit?
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garyking
Mark Renton has an on-screen poop in 'The Worst Toilet in Scotland'. You see him from the front, and there is graphic sound. He then fishes around in the toilet bowl sludge, having dropped something down, before falling in. The entire bathroom is also incredibly grim, as expected.

There is also a later scene where Spud soils the bed at a girls house. The soiled sheets are shown, but the actual event is not.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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garyking
Not particularly, however Begbie does describe meeting a trans woman at a club and being shocked and disgusted when he realises she is trans. No more comment is made after this.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Anonymous
Someone dies of AIDS
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Anonymous
many of the scenes involving syringes (mostly filled with heroin) being injected into the different characters, show close ups of the injections
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
Is there body dysphoria?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Jessie_1904
no cutting but more of self destruction
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forufourfour
Three scenes in which the main character hallucinates due to heroin withdrawal or overdose. The first occurs when he has to put his hands in a filthy toilet and imagines diving into it and swimming in the ocean. The second when he hallucinates descending into a grave - much of the following sequence is shown from his point of view with the edges of the hole bordering the screen. And the third after he is locked into his bedroom by his parents - this is a long scene in which the dimensions of the room warp and he hallucinates a baby crawling across the ceiling and falling onto him, and visits from his friends which could be real. This is the most difficult to tell from reality.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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forufourfour
Renton mentions suicidal thoughts in the abstract at least once but no-one seriously threatens to do so
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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mileyxilsa
When the main character is going through withdrawal, there are certain parts that could be claustrophobic
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Noxious
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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kyurem336
A few scenes take places in nightclubs
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Paranoia
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debora
the main character narrates some parts and talks to the audience
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forufourfour
Characters watch people in the park through binoculars
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Pregnancy
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TheCassandraComplex
Baby frequently seen throughout the film, both alive and dead. The main character hallucinates the dead baby crawling on the ceiling in the throes of heroin withdrawal.
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cassandrasaurus
No. However (SPOILERS) an infant (about six months old) dies from neglect and shown looking very much dead.
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Is there childbirth?
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cassandrasaurus
No. However (SPOILERS) an infant dies from neglect and shown looking very much dead. Might be upsetting for someone who has gone through a stillbirth or late miscarriage to see this.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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TheCassandraComplex
Not really but someone is called a “fat c*nt” as an insult.
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Is there aphobia?
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itsthecolleenlife
There is a scene where a cis male character (Begbie) meets a trans woman at a club and they are later making out in the back of a car, at one point when Begbie reaches up her skirt he feels her genitals and quickly withdraws and acts horrified/disgusted, but no further violence is depicted or implied
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Is there hate speech?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Dron
After Begbie's encounter with a trans woman, he tells Renton "I'm no a fucking buftie."
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Are there n-words?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
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SiRenfield
A man has a relationship with an underage girl although he isn’t aware of it when they first meet and is presented as an “oh f***” moment when he learns the truth but it’s still a huge plot point
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Sex
Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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itsthecolleenlife
No incest but there is a sexual relationship that is implied to be pedophilic (the older partner is in his early 20s, the younger partner is around 14-15). Not that this is an excuse, but the sexual aspect of the relationship is initiated by the younger partner and while the older partner expresses hesitance/discomfort when he finds out her age, she insists on having it continue and threatens to blackmail him.
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Is there bestiality?
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Graphic sex scenes in one part of the movie. There is a penis in full view in several parts
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Are there nude scenes?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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TheCassandraComplex
A character gets toxoplasmosis and has a stroke. Mentioned only, not shown.
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Are there fat suits?
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Yes
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Jessie_1904
people living in heroin houses

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Spoiler
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Seccers
Open to interpretation.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
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Does a car crash?
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TheGrandDisciple
He's not hit by a car, a car slams on it's breaks and he rolls across the hood on his back
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Jessie_1904
at the start of the movie a car breaks to avoid hitting the main character

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pumpkinattack
The protagonist is hit by a car at the beginning of the film.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Does someone drown?
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Seccers
However there is an underwater scene.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there gun violence?
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