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Cliffhanger | 1993 | R | - 1.8.7
Sylvester Stallone stars as an expert mountain climber forced to help a viciously psychotic villain (John Lithgow) recover 100 million dollars, scattered in three suitcases on assorted Rocky Mountain precipices. Michael Rooker and Janine Turner co-star.
SEX/NUDITY 1 - Stallone does takes off his shirt -- repeatedly, despite sub-zero temperatures.
VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - Naturally, since this is a film about mountains, a number of people fall (and fall) to their deaths, while the camera attentively follows their trajectories. Also, a number of people are riddled with bullets, some in slow motion, and some people are blown-up. Splattered blood is everywhere. There are also a number of violent fights with punching, kicking and stabbing, which look (and sound) very realistic. During one such fight, Stallone impales his adversary on a stalactite (it's the one pointing down) and holds him there for a while, while blood dribbles all over. A pack of wolves tries to chomp on an unconscious man -- who's dangling from a tree -- but nothing is shown. Stallone burns 33 million dollars, which may unnerve some people.
LANGUAGE 7 - Lots of F-words and derivatives, used imaginatively.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Greed, guilt, psychosis, evil and cold-blooded murder.
MESSAGE - You mustn't blame yourself, if you've done all you can to prevent an accident.
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