Hateful Eight, The

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Synopsis

Western. While escorting a fugitive (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in post-Civil War Wyoming, a bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) is forced to take refuge among a group of strangers (Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern) due to a blizzard.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Frequent use of ethno-cultural slurs in a historical context
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand detail – blood and some gory detail
• Portrayal of a sexual assault – buttock nudity, some detail
• Infrequent male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• The trappings of civilization
• Unlikely alliances
• Race relations in America

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for detailed gory violence and a portrayal of sexual assault

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