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The Substitute | 1996 | R | - 4.7.8
Tom Berenger is a mercenary who fills in as a substitute teacher and discovers some nefarious drug dealing.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - Kissing, a strip club scene has scantily clad women with breasts and buttocks showing.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A couple of explosions, reckless driving with a car crash, many scenes of people fighting with punching, kicking, and using objects as weapons. People are thrown about (even through a window) and a few times we see some blood on people's faces. People are threatened with guns, a woman is whacked in the kneecaps, many people are killed by gunshots, people are stabbed a couple of times (but blood is not seen often).
LANGUAGE 8 - 25+ F-words, many scatological references and mild obscenities, some anatomical references, a few racial slurs.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Teaching, gangs, drug dealing, mercenaries.
MESSAGE - There are other reasons to fight apart from money.
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