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The Game | 1997 | R | - 2.6.8
Michael Douglas is a billionaire caught up in a potentially lethal game.
SEX/NUDITY 2 - Sexual innuendo, a woman in bra, bare female buttocks (in photos), a porn film plays in background (nothing is seen, but moaning is heard) and brief glimpse of a cartoon still of man and woman having sex.
VIOLENCE/GORE 6 - A knife is held to a man's throat. A man cuts his hand on a mirror with bit of blood and has a few bloody scrapes on his face. A man is shot dead with a bloody chest wound. People are shot in some scenes. Chases and a man is trapped in an out-of-control car that sinks into water.
LANGUAGE 8 - About 30 F-words, some scatological references, a few anatomical references, many mild obscenities.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Paranoia, conspiracies, fantasy vs. reality, wealth, loneliness, control.
MESSAGE: You're never in total control of your life, even when you think so.
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