Thelma
Movie • 2017 • Drama
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A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
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girl has a gun pointed at her head, baby is shoved under couch and later gets trapped under the ice in a lake
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Is there domestic violence?
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thelma's parents drug her multiple times, and it is implied that they are purposefully giving thelma's grandma too high of a dose
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There's a scene where birds smash themselves against a window.
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Dead birds
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Are there snakes?
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~13 minutes in a snake is shown slithering over a woman's throat in a dream; ~54 minutes in, the snake slithers over Thelma's throat and begins to enter her mouth
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone tortured?
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multiple instances of people being trapped in places and burning alive, although not gory
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Is someone burned alive?
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Towards the end, when Thelma's father goes out alone in his boat
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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a character is trapped in a swimming pool and struggled to escape
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The main character has many graphic seizures, and her attempt to find a medical reason for the seizures is a main plot point. The movie has extended sequences with flashing lights, including in a medical attempt to induce seizures in the main character.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character jumps off of the bridge in a suicide attempt and survives but is paralyzed.
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Does a kid die?
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~1 hr 25 mins (ish) in, Thelma's baby brother disappears and is found in the lake under ice (shown onscreen).
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Is an infant abducted?
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A baby disappears and appears unharmed under a couch. The parents frantically try to find the baby before finally rescuing him.
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Death
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Does someone die?
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Thelma's father and baby brother
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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The mother is a wheelchair user, but the actress who plays her is not
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Is someone kidnapped?
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An adult character voluntarily goes to stay with her parents but then is not allowed to leave their home. She is drugged against her will and is regularly locked in her room. At one point she asks if she will be allowed to leave.
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Is someone possessed?
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There's mention of possession when talking about the historical understanding of seizures
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Is there a shower scene?
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bath scene where one character has her chest showing
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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The protagonist’s family lives near a lake
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~55 minutes in, after Thelma smokes the cigarette at the party
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Happens during a seizure
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Does someone have cancer?
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briefly mentioned that the grandma has cancer
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Is there a hospital scene?
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A character goes to a doctor for help with seizures. She is sent to a seizure specialist as an inpatient over the course of several days.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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shown being prepared but not used
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2 suicide attempts, neither are successful
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two different characters attempt, both are unsuccessful and neither is gory
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the mom jumps off of a bridge to commit suicide, but she fails and it leaves her disabled. could be considered sh
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There is a scene where the main character is swimming in a pool and gets trapped underwater.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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tons of flashing lights about halfway through that are meant to induce a seizure
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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there is a baby that suffers
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Does an LGBT person die?
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i’m not sure if this counts: a lgbt character quite literally vanishes — like... doesn’t exist anymore. but she is bought back and they have a happy ending!
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Is there hate speech?
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the entire movie is an allegory for being gay
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No, but there is a scene that struck me as uncomfortable and might be triggering. Toward the end when the dad is sedating his daughter, it shows him showering her and she's naked. Just kind of weird considering he put her in that scenario
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Is there sexual content?
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Two women engage in sexual contact, mostly kissing and manual stimulation. The situation is implied to be in one woman's imagination.
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Are there nude scenes?
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character is shown in the bath with her chest showing, not sexual
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A person is manipulated into loving another
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Sickness
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The protagonist’s grandmother
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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chronic mental illness but not physical
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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a guy says that believing in God is like believing in Santa Klaus so yeah
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Violence
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no gore other than the nosebleed
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Does someone drown?
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An infant dies underwater from cold/drowning. Later in the film, a man dies from either fire-related injuries or drowning in an attempt to put out the fire engulfing him.
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Is there gun violence?
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