We the Animals
Movie • 2018 • Drama
ReportManny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
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Some mosquitoes are crushed and their squished bodies are shown.
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The protagonist's parents have a volatile relationship. They have frequent screaming, yelling fights and the father punches the mother off-screen on multiple occasions, leaving her with cuts and bruises. During their father's absence, the mother neglects the boys and is occasionally violent. The protagonist is pushed hard off of a bed and his brothers are manhandled and have things thrown at them. The boys hit their parents in emotional fits in multiple scenes. In one segment, the mother takes the boys and the truck and tries to run away, but eventually returns to the house with nowhere else to go.
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The father leaves for an unspecified period of time following a physical fight with the mother. During his absence, the mother stops caring for the boys altogether for some time and is occasionally violent, shoving or manhandling them and throwing things at them. Essentially left to fend for themselves, the boys eat everything they can and then resort to stealing food from a local convenience store and a neighbour's garden. They play games in which they pretend that their parents are making up and things are returning to normal.
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Some marijuana use.
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Are there bugs?
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Mosquitoes are shown flying around the characters as well as crushed on their skin. Their neighbour watches nature programming that extensively depicts locusts and beetles.
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Is there a shower scene?
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The boys are shown washing their feet in their bathtub. They also hide extensively behind the shower curtain with their mother in one scene and jump out to scare their father (who sees it coming).
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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The protagonist's mother suffers a depressive phase in which she barely gets out of bed or eats. No actual eating disorders are depicted. Use your discretion.
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Is there sexual content?
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The boys watch a recording of explicit TV ads for adult movies, which include both heterosexual and homosexual content. In a later scene, the protagonist watches the recording alone with his neighbor and the neighbor begins to reach into his pants to masturbate, but recoils when the protagonist's brothers knock on the window. The protagonist later kisses his neighbour on the mouth. The boys talk causally about sex in a few scenes and witness their parents' indiscreet foreplay, in which their mother's breasts are exposed. When the protagonist's journal is uncovered, it's shown to contain many drawings of male genitals and both heterosexual and homosexual content.
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Does someone drown?
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The child almost drowns towards the beginning of the movie when the dad “teaches” him how to swim. Sinking underwater is a recurring theme.
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