Fair Play | 2023 | R | – 8.5.10

Why is “Fair Play” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “pervasive language, sexual content, some nudity, and sexual violence.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several sex scenes including a rape scene, a few implied sex scenes, scenes with performers in an exotic dance club that include nudity, many sexually explicit remarks, a man being slashed with a knife and leaving a bloody wound, many heated arguments, a few scenes of people causing property damage in an office setting, and over 200 F-words and other strong and crude language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Two analysts (Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich) working for a cutthroat hedge fund are also very much in love and relentlessly in lust. However, when one of them is promoted and the other isn’t, their relationship quickly begins to unravel. Also with Eddie Marsan, Rich Sommer, Sebastian De Souza, Sia Alipour, Yacine Ramoul and Brandon Bassir. Directed by Chloe Domont. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in Russian without translation. [Running Time: 1:53]

Fair Play SEX/NUDITY 8

 – A man and a woman argue in a bathroom, he shoves her against a door, forces a kiss, they kiss passionately and she reciprocates, and then he presses her head onto a counter, holding her by the hair (we see their bare thighs) and thrusts violently (we see her with a bruise on her face, shoulder and arm later) while she tells him to stop but he continues; she later accuses him of raping her. A man and a woman embrace and kiss, they dance, they continue kissing in a bathroom, she removes her underwear (we see her partial bare legs) and he moves down below her waist implying that he is performing oral sex; when he kisses back up her abdomen to her face, we see that he has blood (presumably menstrual) on his face and has dragged blood along her dress and on his shirt. A man and a woman kiss passionately and press against a wall, sex is implied and we see the man and the woman in a shower together (bare shoulders, backs and cleavage are seen). A man and woman lie on a floor under covers and sex is implied (he is shirtless and we see his bare chest and shoulders and she is topless and we see her bare shoulders and breasts); they kiss and we see her back and bare leg. A woman wears a camisole and pettipants that reveal cleavage and her bare legs to the hips; she straddles a man seated on a sofa and kisses him, she tries to seduce him and he says that he is not in the mood, they lie back on the sofa moaning as he unfastens his pants, he tries to self-stimulate himself and then sits up frustrated.
► A woman and several men go to an exotic dance club where they drink and watch dancers perform; the dancers swing around poles and thrust their hips while wearing skimpy outfits that reveal bare breasts, abdomens, buttocks and legs to the hips through fishnet material. Men and women are shown seated in couples in a dimly lit club and a few are caressing and sitting close to each other; one woman’s bare leg to the upper thigh is seen when her dress hangs open and a man kisses her neck. People dance at a wedding reception.
► A woman tries to seduce a man and he declines, kisses her on the forehead and leaves the room. A man and a woman lie in bed together and they are awakened by a phone call. A song plays during an introductory scene that is accompanied by sexually suggestive moaning.
► After a woman gets a promotion, a man asks, “Should I get a sex change operation?” A person says that someone “Used a Doritos bag as a condom.” Men tell another man to “lock it in,” suggesting that he should marry a woman. A man makes crude sexual remarks about a woman in front of other people accusing her of having sex with her boss to get a promotion. A man makes a sexually suggestive remark to a woman talking about her suspected interest in another man. A woman laughs and talks to two men in an office and another man watches, seeming jealous. A man shares a story about a college hockey team that would initiate their new players by having them have sex with women that are brought into a locker room wearing bags on their heads, and one person was surprised to see that she was his sister after he had sex with her. A woman tells a man that she will promote him if he performs a sex act on her.
► A woman showers and we see her bare back and shoulders. A woman wears cleavage-revealing blouses in several scenes.

Fair Play VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A woman holds a kitchen knife and tells a man that he should beg for forgiveness, he grabs the knife and she slashes his hand (we see blood on his hand), and the woman tells the man to cry or she will make him bleed and then slashes him on the arm (blood pours on the floor).
► A man swings a golf club around in an office breaking computer screens while yelling after being fired; the man is held by the arms by two security guards and escorted out of the office. A man stumbles and trips in an office (seemingly inebriated), his clothes are crumpled and he enters an office during a meeting, throws a coffee cup on the floor and yells and barks like a dog before being taken away by security.
► A man and a woman argue in a bathroom, he shoves her against a door, forces a kiss, they kiss passionately and she reciprocates, and then he presses her head onto a counter, holding her by the hair (we see their bare thighs) and thrusts violently (we see her with a bruise on her face, shoulder and arm later) while she tells him to stop but he continues; she later accuses him of raping her. A man and woman argue bitterly in several scenes and one time they argue in front of many people gathered for a party for their engagement; he insults her and she hits him in the head with a beer bottle (no injuries are shown).
► A woman almost trips over a nearly empty bottle of liquor on a floor and finds a man alone in another room after he presumably drank the liquor and they argue. A woman walks into a dark alley late at night alone toward the entrance of a private club.
► A man pleads with his boss for a promotion and gets down on his knees in front of him; he is embarrassed when he does not get the promotion. A woman and her mother argue over the phone in several scenes. A woman tells a man that another man has been stalking her and she fears that he might hurt her. A man tells a woman, “We all do filthy things.” A woman tells a man, “You raped me.” A man pleads with his boss and cries after he is fired. A woman’s boss addresses her in a crude and abusive manner and repeats the comment twice.
► After a man performs oral sex on a woman (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), he is shown with menstrual blood on his face and there is more blood on her dress and his shirt. After an implied sex scene, there are visible blood spots on a bed’s sheets. A woman climbs through a window and a man helps her down on the other side.

Fair Play LANGUAGE 10

 – About 201 F-words and its derivatives, 15 sexual references, 29 scatological terms, 9 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, name-calling (Mister Ivy League, prettiest girl in the room, crazy, filthy, psychopath, weak, pathetic, hooker, coward, stiff, bastards, lapdogs, sick, dumb story, cupcake, sick, unstable, ungrateful, paranoid), exclamations (easy cowboy), 22 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, Jesus Christ, God, Jesus). | profanity glossary |

Fair Play SUBSTANCE USE

 – A prescription pill vial is seen being passed around by people in a club. A man and a woman drink champagne while taking a shower together, a man and a woman drink whiskey in a club, a woman drinks glasses of whiskey at home, several people drink in a bar, a woman guzzles from a bottle of liquor, it is implied that a man drinks an entire bottle of liquor, people drink liquor at a bar, a woman drinks wine with a meal and guzzles the last sip from a glass, and people at a wedding reception drink liquor and champagne. A woman smokes cigarettes in several scenes.

Fair Play DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Hedge fund managers, high-pressure jobs, sexual harassment, secrets, truth, blame, accountability, fear, stress, company policies on dating colleagues, entrepreneurial spirit.

Fair Play MESSAGE

 – Working for a hedge fund resembles ruthless bookmaking, and such an attitude can contaminate human relationships.