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A Dangerous Woman | 1993 | R | - 7.6.7
Debra Winger stars as a mentally retarded woman, who is suspected of swiping money from her employer's cash register. Barbara Hershey and Gabriel Byrne co-star.
SEX/NUDITY 7 - There are several sex scenes, with varying degrees of intensity and nudity: one scene leaves little to the imagination, and another takes place on a kitchen floor; yet another is interrupted. We also see a side shot of a woman's bosom, and another woman's naked behind (while she is sexually gratifying herself), and also a man's naked behind.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - A woman tries to run her husband over with a car and then points a gun at him. Another woman takes a kitchen knife to a co-worker and slices into his stomach with about 30 slashes -- a very bloody, graphic and disturbing scene.
LANGUAGE 7 - A couple of dozen F-words are employed, as well as several assorted scatological and anatomical references.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Rape, prison, murder, adultery, abortion, mental illness.
MESSAGE - Those who are mentally retarded are wackos, so stay away from them.
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