Once Upon a Time in America

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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
This movie contains 24 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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geillis
A young boy watches a girl through a hole without her being aware. There is mention of a husband watching her wife have sex with various men through a hole.
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Paci
A main theme on the film is domestic violence and mistreatment of women and how the people involved on crimen in reality are unstable and gross
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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geillis
A teenage girl is a prostitute.
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Addiction
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Sid
The film begins and ends in an opium den where Noodles smokes opium and acts very high
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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MyspaceNihilist
They show a chicken factory, but no actual animals, just the heaps of plucked feathers
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone restrained?
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CourtneyK
Yes. Violently. In the back of a driving car. Twice. Presumably vaginally and analy. While nudity is minimal, the actual acts are realistic and terrifying.
And of course, the rapist gets away with it. In fact, since she's like a mild obsession of his, he seems surprised she doesn't want anything to do with him and that she is upset. He (the rapist) even looks confused when the driver appears angry after hearing the entire rape.
Really hard scene.
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Katla
Several times throughout the movie
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Max after getting beaten up
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Sid
Max gets kicked in the testicles
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Sid
Someone is shot in the eye
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Sid
Dominic is shot and dies in Noodles’ arms
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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Does a parent die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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AllyxandraDouglasVega
More a strip-tease scene, but it involves a pre-teen girl.
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Sid
Verbal mention and a baby also needs changing at one point
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Does someone vomit?
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Sid
No but there are a lot of moments where it looks like they’re about to. When Noodles smokes opium in the first scene he starts hiccuping and making groaning noises, when Max is beaten up by Bugsy he coughs uncontrollably, and there’s also a scene where a character is doused in petrol and it gets in his mouth and he starts gagging
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Sid
The cop pays an underage girl for sex, so definitely not
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Sid
No, all the opium is smoked
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Sid
There’s nothing to suggest that Noodles and his friends are mentally ill
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Is there misophonia?
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IanHarrison
In the opening scenes, a phone rings continuously for about 5 mins. I was tearing my hair out.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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MyspaceNihilist
There's a character called fat moe
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Does the black guy die first?
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Sid
All the main characters are Jewish so no
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Is there hate speech?
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geillis
Misogynistic speech, a lot.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Sex
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Sid
As well as the rapes, the teenage boys and adults alike pay an underage girl for sex. There’s also quite a few scenes of the boys watching a girl through a hole in the wall, propositioning girls, exposing themselves, using sexual language and generally being randy teenage boys with no morals. Then as adults there’s the rapes, a weird scene of Noodles having sex with a woman pretending to be a corpse in a hearse, and more
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Sid
Ambiguous. We don’t know how many of the films events are real and how many are opium dreams, but it seems like Noodles is in danger as the film ends
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Does someone drown?
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Sid
It momentarily looks as if Max has drowned but he’s fine
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Is there gun violence?
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