Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Movie • 1982
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Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye, Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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dinguspringus
You might interpret Rigby’s choking women (for a laugh from the audience) as such
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Lots of innuendo, no actual sex on screen
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KirstenParriott
The recurring joke about choking the nearest woman every time he hears the words "cleaning woman" comes across as domestic violence to me
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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dinguspringus
Constant smoking of cigarettes and drinking of alcohol
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dinguspringus
Some rough treatment of pigeons at ~1 hr 5 minutes, no serious distress
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LJConrad
The main character sexually assaults the love interest when she faints at the start and this becomes a recurring joke.
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Is someone drugged?
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McKenzieWilkes
During the Ingrid Bergman 'Notorious' sequence, she drugs Steve Martin's character and he acts "loopy" for a few scenes. He's drugged yet again later near the end of the film with "Kitty Collins" where he passes out.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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McKenzieWilkes
There's a scene where Steve Martin, "shaves his tongue," and it's mostly him putting shaving cream on his tongue. There's a scene later where he's shaving the hair off of his legs as well just a bit later.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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KirstenParriott
Rice tries to suffocate Rigby with a pillow
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Is someone choked?
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McKenzieWilkes
There's a recurring joke that when Steve Martin's character hears the word, "cleaning woman," he chokes whichever woman in his vicinity said the word. It's heavily telegraphed when it'll happen each time and it's usually very silly and over as soon as it started.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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KirstenParriott
Not on screen, but they say one of the victims fell out of a window to his death
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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KirstenParriott
Around 1:15 a villain is shot and falls down the stairs
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Does someone become unconscious?
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McKenzieWilkes
Steve Martin gets shot in the same point on his arm numerous times and passes out in a humorous way, often waking up back at his office again. It's a recurring bit but he does become unconscious a lot in this movie.
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Does someone die?
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McKenzieWilkes
The main detective is investigating a string of murders so there's numerous off-screen and a few on-screen deaths.
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Does a parent die?
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KirstenParriott
The whole film is about solving the possible murder of Ms Forrest's father
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Does someone cheat?
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KirstenParriott
He finds a photo of Mr. Forrest's "side piece"
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Fear
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McKenzieWilkes
When he shaves a few times in this movie there's old fashioned razor blades but he's just shaving his legs.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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dinguspringus
Not necessarily misophonia, but all of the foley/sound effects are very loud
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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KirstenParriott
Rigby gets locked in a car trunk
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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KirstenParriott
Occasional profanity
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Paranoia
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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orchids
Multiple scenes of Steve Martin dressing up as a woman, played for laughs, with jokes about how he doesn't "look like a dame".
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Vehicular
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LJConrad
A character is killed when their car drives off a cliff.
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Violence
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KirstenParriott
Small amount of blood on Rigby's mouth after he gets beat up
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Is there gun violence?
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McKenzieWilkes
It's a riff on old noir films, so lots of guns shot.
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