Desert Hearts
Movie • 1985 • Drama
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The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
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Cay's stepmother yells at her for her relations with Vivian and uses some religion to do so.
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One of the main characters bosses relentlessly chases after her and will not leave her alone because he likes her. Also, Vivian tells Cay to leave her alone while she figures out her feelings, but Cay shows up at her hotel room anyway.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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There is a lot of drinking. Cay's stepmother seems to use it to cope with the death of her husband (unseen, mentioned a few times.)
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There are multiple scenes where characters smoke.
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No, but Vivian's willingness to be with Cay is clouded by her internalized lesbiphobia. She tells Cay she wants her to leave and Cay says "No you don't." Could be seen as coercion. After though, they are both very happy.
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In the beginning there is a brief scene where a man grabs onto a woman working at the casino. She is visibly uncomfortable, but another man pulls him off. Nothing explicit shown, looks mostly like hugging.
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Is there pedophilia?
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The main romance has a 10 year age gap but they are both adults.
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Is someone restrained?
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There's a brief scene where a man grabs a woman and she seems like she can't get out, but someone pulls him off of her. Very short.
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Does someone cheat?
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Cay is seen with another woman at the beginning of the movie, but their relationship is never defined as she gets closer to Vivian, though she does seem jealous at first. Vivian is going through a divorce and calls her and Cay's relationship and affair.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Vivian describes her and Cay's relationship as an affair, but her and her husband are going through a divorce.
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Is there misophonia?
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There is a long slow kissing scene that definitely irritated my misophonia
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There is a brief lightning storm, I'm not sure how bad the flashing is.
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Ten year age gap between the two main characters, but both are adults.
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Not explicitly but Cay's stepmother is very attatched to her. Cay's stepbrother says "She wants Cay all to herself."
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Many of the women in this movie are always being hit on, especially Cay.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Vivian has never slept with a woman before, and her and Cay talk about it.
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open-ended but optimistic ending
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