Stairs, The

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Synopsis

Documentary. In a community health centre in Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood, a group of staff help people struggling with poverty, trauma, and addiction while also struggling with the same issues in their own lives.

Content elements

• Pervasive use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang; infrequent use of profanity, cursing, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent photographic depictions of the after-effects of violence - some blood and detail
• Infrequent, detailed references to gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, including sexual violence
• Infrequent, detailed references to sex work in a documentary context - some descriptive detail
• Infrequent depictions of illegal substance use and abuse in an addiction context - some detail; frequent, frank discussions of illegal substance use and abuse - some detail
• Infrequent depictions of smoking and alcohol use in a recreational context - little detail

Thematic elements

• Poverty, trauma, and addiction
• Working towards positive change
• Harm reduction techniques

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for substance abuse and coarse language in a documentary context

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