The Great Debaters
Movie • 2007 • Drama
ReportThe true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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elliewhonow
At the very beginning, a man is shown pushing his wife
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amamini
a child is hit once in an argument with his father
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A pig is killed early in the movie
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Bodily Harm
Is someone burned alive?
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no, but a man who has been hanged is then set on fire
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Is there a hanging?
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There’s a lynching
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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not visually, but it is mentioned
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Is someone tortured?
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a Black man inside a police station is shown with a beaten face
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Is there eye mutilation?
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not visually, but it is mentioned
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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elliewhonow
But at one point it is implied that a character might vomit
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