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The Vanishing | 1993 | R | - 0.7.6
Hollywood remake of the eponymous 1988 French/Dutch film, about a man obsessed with learning the fate of a girlfriend who vanished without a trace, and his encounter with a strange man who claims to have the answer. Kiefer Sutherland is the obsessed man, and Jeff Bridges is his nemesis.
SEX/NUDITY 0 - No notable nudity or sexual scenes.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - There's a violent fist fight, with blood. A butcher knife is used to stab a person in the gut, and there are a couple of good cracks across the back of the head with two-by-fours and the flat of a shovel. And, for good measure, there's a decapitation with the shovel blade. Sutherland gets buried alive, and we are given a point-of-view shot.
LANGUAGE 6 - Three F-words and four scatological terms.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Obsessiveness, the amorality of psychotic behavior.
MESSAGE - Watch your back, and your loved ones. Evil can be random.
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