Face Off
Movie • 1997 • Action
ReportAn antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent's family.
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Are there abusive parents?
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The actual parent isn't abusive but someone who looks just like him, and is him as far as the child knows at the time, is.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Sean-as-Castor wakes up disoriented after taking drugs and pulls a gun on Castor’s girlfriend
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Castor-as-Sean gaslights Sean’s family and coworkers into thinking that he is Sean, and Sean-as-Castor does the same with Castor’s brother
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Children are put in dangerous situations and Castor-as-Sean flirts with Sean’s daughter. A small boy witnesses a massacre
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Addiction
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Sean-as-Castor swallows whiskey with drugs in it and everything gets slightly echoey and hazy. He collapses on a bed and then goes to a sink to splash water on his face and someone says “no more drugs for that man”. When he wakes up he is disoriented
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Is there addiction?
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Castor is a smoker and recreational drug user
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Castor seems to be quite a heavy drinker
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A gunfight breaks out next to a flock of pigeons, but none of the birds appear to be injured.
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Is there pedophilia?
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UnagioLucio
Castor is lecherous toward both women and teenage girls, and is clearly attracted to Sean's teenage daughter, though nothing physical happens between them.
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Is someone restrained?
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Sean-as-Castor is shackled and the man having ECT is strapped to the chair. The prisoners wear magnetic boots that can stick them to the floor
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jcat
Attempted sexual assault around 1:25:00, rapist is stopped & he does get his ass kicked. Troy-as-Sean also refers to having sex with Eve (Sean's wife who does not know he's Troy).
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UnagioLucio
Sexual assault is shown, but not rape: a teenage male tries to rape Sean's daughter, but is quickly interrupted.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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The whole face transplant thing. Castor-as-Sean also gets stabbed in the leg
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Couple of choking incidents
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Is someone burned alive?
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Castor-as-Sean burns the surgeons alive and later Sean-as-Castor burns a couple of guards with sulphuric acid. Castor’s shoes catch fire when he is escaping from prison and he takes them off. A cigarette is put out on Castor’s arm when he is comatose
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Is there body horror?
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UnagioLucio
There is inherent body horror in the film's premise of having your face surgically swapped with that of your worst enemy. The actual surgery scene downplays the blood and gore, depicting face removal almost like popping off a panel on a car. There are also scenes where the villain is conscious without a face, but he's shown mostly from behind.
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Is there amputation?
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Faces are removed.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Sean recounts a story about how his wife broke a tooth on a seed, but it's not shown.
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Is someone tortured?
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People are tortured at the prison.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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mossx
Jamie is pushed dow some stairs (into safety) near the end but it’s very short and she has no lasting injuries.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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It looks like Sean-as-Castor has fallen to his death into the sea but he survives. Later, a cop appears to fall to his death when Castor’s associate’s place is raided
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Someone has a gun pressed into their eye but it is not fired
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Is someone stabbed?
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mossx
In the thigh. Nonlethal.
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Is there excessive gore?
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There’s quite a lot of gore, but I wouldn’t say it’s gratuitous. Castor’s flayed face is never directly shown, probably to save money on special effects
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Does a kid die?
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nunyabiz
Right at the start of the film, an assassin shoots his target but the bullet goes clear through him and hits his kid (8-9 yo), killing the young boy.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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UnagioLucio
Castor, the villain, is shamelessly lecherous toward both women and teenage girls, including Sean's daughter.
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Sean-as-Castor has to take drugs to keep up the ruse and he can’t handle them. He collapses on a bed and Castor’s friend says “no more drugs for that man”, but he is ultimately unharmed
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Family
Does a family member die?
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UnagioLucio
The main character's son is shot dead in the very beginning of the film. Later, the mother of a difference young boy dies in a gun fight.
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Does a parent die?
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Castor has a son and he dies at the end. Some of the other people who got killed were probably parents as well
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Sean’s daughter is taken by Castor-as-Sean as a sort of hostage in the climax
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Does someone cheat?
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antivertigo
It will depend on your interpretation of cheating, because intentional or not, the two main characters switch lives which includes relationships. It isn't voluntary, but it still happens.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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mossx
Major fight scene in speed boats over the ocean near the end
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Is someone possessed?
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Not in the traditional sense but people swap faces which is a little like possession
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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nunyabiz
A guy who is getting electro therapy is shocked for so long that he v*. It doesn't show the actual act, but after a couple seconds of being electrocuted the cam cuts away and then comes back to him, and he has some v* down his shirt and around his mouth and on his beard. He escapes and we see him fighting for a few minutes with the stuff still on him. I have VERY bad emetophobia and it didn't bother me much. It's very little and you never see it happen. If you have to skip it, it's when they take Nic Cage into electro-therapy and it shows the guy before him getting electrocuted with a big thing on his head. I wouldn't recommend skipping though, as it's a cool part that is substantial to the film in full.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Verbal mention that a criminal soiled himself. When Sean-as-Castor takes drugs he says he needs to go to the bathroom and then passes out and in the next scene a woman is taking off his dirty clothes and telling him to put clean ones on but nothing is shown
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Cops do so many illegal inhumane things and it’s all just accepted.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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jcat
Used as torture, but basically everyone doing the torture dies within the next few minutes, as action movies are sometimes known to do.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Sean-as-Castor gets injected with a sedative when he freaks out and Castor-as-Sean gets pricked with a needle to tests his blood type
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The biggest moment of the whole film is the 2 mains have their faces surgically switched in a hospital setting. It shows the operation with some detail, but not very bloody or graphic.
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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It is implied that Pollux has paranoia for which he requires medication.
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duckinalagoon
A man tries slicing off his own face at the end.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Castor is probably mentally ill in some way and Pollux is described as a “paranoid sociopath” and takes antipsychotics
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Sean has many panic attacks throughout. Eve and Jamie also have panic attacks when they learn the truth.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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UnagioLucio
Sean and Castor both struggle to cope with wearing the face of their worst enemy. Sean is particularly troubled, as there are multiple scenes of him lashing out at his reflection in rage or panic.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Sean hates the fact that he looks like Castor. Castor says he hates Sean’s face and body
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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I think Sean probably has PTSD from his son’s death
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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lots of gunfire and explosions
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Paranoia
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Mulu
En VF.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Sean is told that he will need an abdominoplasty to impersonate Castor because Castor is thinner than him. Castor later says “I don’t know which I hate most, your face or your body”
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Does the black guy die first?
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Technicality is a little unclear but given that Troy only appears to die (and goes on to be in the rest of the movie), & the next deaths are two Black characters, marking as yes.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Mulu
Jamie is seemingly dating an older boy, who tries to abuse her before he is stopped.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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mossx
A funeral in a church followed by a LOT of Christian imagery (Jesus being crucified) in the climax.
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Castor (as Travolta) dies in a position with his arms spread, similar to an earlier scene where he mimics a statue of Jesus’ crucifixion.
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Castor (as Travolta) dies in a position with his arms spread, similar to an earlier scene where he mimics a statue of Jesus’ crucifixion.
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Castor is a total lech
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Sid
Not exactly but Castor-as-Sean flirts with Sean’s daughter and it must be very upsetting from her point of view
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Is there sexual content?
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UnagioLucio
Castor is a massive creep who repeatedly tries to kiss, grope, and have sex with women. While their bodies are swapped, both Castor and Sean are implied to have sex with the woman the other man was seeing.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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Castor ridicules Sean for being upset about the death of his son
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Does someone have a stroke?
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No, but an old man is shown to have heart trouble, and is killed when Castor induces him to have a heart attack.
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Social
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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A helicopter
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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denialol
Multiple bloody shootings, and some depictions of faceless people.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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UnagioLucio
There's a big, fiery boat explosion near the end of the film, but there are no explosions of a nuclear nature.
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Is there gun violence?
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denialol
Many scenes of action violence where people are shot.
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