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The Temp | 1993 | R | - 3.7.5
Timothy Hutton and Lara Flynn Boyle star in a thriller about a temp that wants to make it to the top of the corporate world -- and will do anything to reach her goal, even if that includes murder.
SEX/NUDITY 3 - There are a few sexual comments, and we see Boyle dressed in a negligee (all that is apparent is cleavage). Boyle is briefly glimpsed lying on a bed in a darkened room, while writhing and groaning. Masturbation is suggested.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A man gets his hand caught in a shredder and we see a great deal of blood spray his face, a dead man's splotched, discolored face is shown, a corpse is shown hanging, two people eat cookies and bleed from the mouth -- with one person briefly spewing blood on the other -- a security guard is shown with a knife in his bloody chest, two fistfights with no blood, two people are hit in the head with a steel pipe resulting in blood, and a woman falls to her death, but no blood is shown.
LANGUAGE 5 - Eight F-words, and other more minor obscenities.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Murder, marital separation, using sex to get ahead at work, deceit and betrayal.
MESSAGE - The corporate world is dog eat dog and some people will do anything to get ahead. The good guy does win in the end.
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