Caged Heat (1974) [reclassified 2017]

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Synopsis

Crime/Action. In a women's prison, a group of inmates (Erica Gavin, Juanita Brown, Roberta Collins, Ella Reid) band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden (Barbara Steele).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a torture context – some blood, little detail
• Portrayal of sexual assault – brief breast nudity, little detail
• Frequent female frontal and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context; brief breast nudity in a sexual context; brief male genital nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• Gender, power, and control
• Incarceration and personal agency
• Solidarity

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for nudity, coarse language, and violence, including a sexual assualt

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