Nocturnal Animals
Movie • 2016 • Drama
ReportSusan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
This movie contains 54 potentially triggering events.
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
19 supporters
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Rhazior
A relative, never shown on screen, not in a malicious way.
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone choked?
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No but a character does die from suffocation (mentioned but never seen)
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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izzie
A minor is raped and killed. Very upsetting.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Rhazior
Someone smokes and develops lung cancer
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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LZboyfurn
We see Susan drinking but not in an extreme way
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Animal
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Anonymous
A bird flies into a window and dies. About an hour and 32 mins in.
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Is there a dead animal?
85 supporters
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Anonymous
There’s also some animal with arrows in it, like an art exhibit. It’s not moving or anything.
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Are there bugs?
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bananareen
There are flies crawling on Tony when he wakes up in the final book scene
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Assault
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
15 supporters
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Rhazior
More of a general hooligan rather than a targeted bully
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Is someone restrained?
18 supporters
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LZboyfurn
People are forcedly moved and held down and others are handcuffed
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COH
A mother and daughter are raped and murdered. There is a very short but scary scene after their husband/father finds out that shows what happened between a man and the young girl.
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LZboyfurn
Most of this happens off screen but this is a movie to skip if rape is triggering to you 💖
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
28 supporters
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bananareen
Susan gets a papercut near the beginning of the movie. Many characters in the book scenes are cut
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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KaylynvanderMerwe
a character is said to have been strangled to death
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Does a head get squashed?
48 supporters
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A head gets bonked with a rod and you see the aftermath
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Does someone asphyxiate?
18 supporters
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LZboyfurn
It’s only mentioned and not shown
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Does someone become unconscious?
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izzie
Someone is hit on the head and backs out for a while.
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Does someone break a bone?
18 supporters
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COH
It is mentioned that his daughters arm was broken before she died, but I didn’t notice anything when her body is shown
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Is there eye mutilation?
75 supporters
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Edward seems to have been blinded towards the end as he was hit in the face with a poker.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
17 supporters
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izzie
Not an infant, but a minor is taken against her will.
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Does a kid die?
33 supporters
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Anonymous
A daughter and mother are kidnapped, raped and murdered. It is extremely triggering.
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Is a minor sexualized?
78 supporters
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izzie
No? But a minor is sexually assaulted, and the whole scene makes you very uncomfortable because the implication that they're gonna rape her is heavy.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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LZboyfurn
Bobby is willing to accept the consequences of dealing with the assailants extra legally
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Does someone die?
10 supporters
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Anonymous
Four people dies.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
18 supporters
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LZboyfurn
Tony is blind at the end of the movie but is played by a sighted person, but only for less than ten minutes
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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A mother and her daughter are r*ped and murdered, and we see the aftermath.
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Does a family member die?
15 supporters
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Anonymous
Wife and daughter
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
45 supporters
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COH
While the main character is looking at another woman’s phone to see her baby monitor app, a random face appears on the phone very suddenly and she drops it.
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Is there a shower scene?
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izzie
A woman and a man are seen in the shower a couple times, but not together. No nudity on these scenes, just them crying etc.
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
71 supporters
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COH
The cop runs off to vomit, nothing seen but there is a noise
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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LZboyfurn
A character is seen using the toilet and wiping
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Does someone spit?
10 supporters
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COH
The cop coughs and spits several times
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
21 supporters
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LZboyfurn
The cop is a dedicated hero character 🙃
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
42 supporters
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LZboyfurn
A cis man is belittled by being asked if he has a vagina
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Loss
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
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KaylynvanderMerwe
smoker has lung cancer
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
35 supporters
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izzie
Character is left very traumatised after a crime is commited against him and his family.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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LZboyfurn
There are a few scenes of intense emotional breakdowns
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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izzie
Character kills himself with a gunshot, not very clear if it was an accident or not.
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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izzie
A lot of it, mostly during the assault sequence. Abuser makes a lot of obscene, sexual gestures that can make you uncomfortable.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Mavenkitten
there are a few police sirens flashing , and car headlights in the dark
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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There is talk of abortion
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
28 supporters
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KaylynvanderMerwe
one male character asks if another male character has a vagina and calls him weak
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Is there hate speech?
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aussiekanga
a man tries to grab another man while asking if he has a vagina.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
29 supporters
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LZboyfurn
A teen girl is assaulted sexually by an adult
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Sex
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Are there nude scenes?
28 supporters
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izzie
Looong sequece in the opening scene, a bunch of women dancing naked, played slowly. Right after their bodies laid down on a gallery.
Later, two women shown naked on a sofa after they were murdered, we only see the back of one of them. When the protagonist calls her daughter we see her in the same position as the body, so we see her butt and naked body from behind.
Also, naked man sitting on a toilet. They talk to him while he is in the position so the scene lasts. We see his whole body but the genitalia his hidden by his knee.
Later, two women shown naked on a sofa after they were murdered, we only see the back of one of them. When the protagonist calls her daughter we see her in the same position as the body, so we see her butt and naked body from behind.
Also, naked man sitting on a toilet. They talk to him while he is in the position so the scene lasts. We see his whole body but the genitalia his hidden by his knee.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
67 supporters
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
8 supporters
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Anonymous
Bobby has cancer.
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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KaylynvanderMerwe
I suppose that's relative to who's side you're on
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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izzie
When they're driving by a really dark, empty road another car comes up and after driving pass each other a couple times they start to get mad and drive recklessly. The other car starts trying to make them hit them on purpose, first they crash from behind but continue driving. Then the "chase" goes on and the other car starts crashing into them side by side until they are throw off the road and forced to stop. No VIOLENT crash, just a bunch of hard touches.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
12 supporters
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izzie
Scene is described in more detail on "Does a car crash?"
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
44 supporters
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izzie
Small paper cut in the beggining, but very little blood is shown. I believe we only see blood again in the very end of the movie, but way more of it.
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Is there gun violence?
19 supporters
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izzie
Lots of shots fired, guns shown and used as a threat. Gun-related deaths only in the end of the movie.
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