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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Infrequent references. (i.e. "Why don't you go home and f**k your mother some more?")

Violence & Gore

Four boys are covered in leeches and blood is seen when they are pulling them off. One discovers he has a leech in his pants which he then pulls out with a bloodied hand.

The face of a dead boy's body is seen. His eyes are open and he has some blood on his face.

Graphic but predictable vomit scenes, which are all used for laughs.

A young man has a word carved into his skin with a razor-blade, some blood is seen.

An older boy bullies a younger boy by pushing him to the ground, getting on top of him and then he puts a lit cigarette close to the kid's eye: threatening to put it in.

A gang threatens young boys with a knife.

Profanity

About 10 uses of the F word, some used by pre-teen boys.

Other milder language, like sh**, a**hole, ect.

Most language is used as an insult.

In several scenes, 12 year old boys smoke cigarettes.

Other scenes of smoking.

Some older teens drink and drive several times.

The body of a dead boy may be frightening to younger viewers.

Four boys are covered in leeches. One boy has one in his underwear and he faints.

Two young boys on a railroad bridge are chased by a train. This scene is very intense.

There are some very threatening scenes between the boys and an older gang.

A group of pre-teen boys stay in the bush one night and they all take turns of keeping watch with a gun, strange and scary noises are heard that they think are ghosts or wolves.

An intense stand-off scene with characters threatening each other with a knife and gun.

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