
Alex Strangelove
Movie • 2018 • Romance
ReportAlex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
This movie contains 12 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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EchoEcho
Kind of. Some people go to find other people, and they call it stalking as a joke, but it’s not actually.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are animals abused?
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There is a brief conversation on and joke about beastiality
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Are there spiders?
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In the very first scene
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violetbooklover
But there is an “joke” about NAMBLA (a pedophilic “organization”)
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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joanizzy
No, but when a character is experiencing psychedelic effects, he hallucinates a toad choking him.
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Are there jump scares?
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EchoEcho
At one point, two people slam their faces up against a window unexpectedly with crappy monkey masks. However, they are not bad.
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Is there a shower scene?
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joanizzy
There is a flashback to Alex being bullied by his peers in a shower/locker room setting.
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zofia
At minute 27:10 in the bathroom scene.
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Does someone have cancer?
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EchoGarden1
Claire’s mother has it, no cancer-related stuff is ever shown, only talked about.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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joanizzy
A character discusses his father's use of the f-slur in passing, but there is no aggression in his use of the word. In a flashback, a character is bullied by his peers and they use the f-slur multiple times in a mocking and aggressive manner.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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joanizzy
A character teases another by calling him "Special ED" at one point, but there is no malicious intent. When a character submits an essay about his experience with an autistic child to college, his father says "That's good, autism's good," and the other, calling out his father's insensitive word choice, sarcastically says "Yeah, it's a good thing we have autistic people to help us get into college." Don't know if it counts but better safe than sorry, as it certainly rubbed me the wrong way. There are variants of the r-slur used throughout the movie. There is no ableist language or behavior used toward anyone who is actually disabled.
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legolasgimlis
Not exactly, but there are insensitive comments that are transphobic.
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Is there hate speech?
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joanizzy
The f-slur is used multiple times, sometimes in an aggressive manner. A character is repeatedly extremely ignorant and dismissive of bi people, trans people, pan people, and just queer people in general. At one point a character dismisses polyamory as "some new thing kids at our school are trying." There is some ableist language used, but not in an aggressive manner, which I commented on under that section.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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joanizzy
YES. Sex is central to the plot. Graphic sexual language is used. There are two (attempted) sex scenes that are both incredibly awkward and uncomfortable and end poorly.
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ilikethefallingapart
no one drowns but there is a part where the main character is underwater in a pool for an extended period of time when he is semiconscious and having flashbacks. it could be anxiety inducing or triggering for some. then he gets out of the pool and is not harmed.
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