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The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | R | - 7.7.7
Prison drama with Tim Robbins.
SEX/NUDITY 7 - Brief male nudity, in prison shower scenes. Male-on-male rape happens off-screen.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Instances of male-on-male rape happen off-screen, but several brutal beatings are shown: One man is beaten to death. A character is shot through the chest a half-dozen times. One man shoots himself through the head -- the camera cuts away at the critical moment, but he is shown with a hole in the head and blood splattered on the wall. A man hangs himself, though we only see him after the fact, from the legs down. A man is held with a knife blade to his throat.
LANGUAGE 7 - The F-word is used many times, plus scatological and anatomical references and other profanities.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Murder, suicide, rape, corrupt prison system.
MESSAGE - Friendship and hope can sustain people through the most dire circumstances.
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