Suburbia (1983)

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Synopsis

Drama. A group of punk runaways (Bill Coyne, Chris Pedersen, Jennifer Clay, Timothy O'Brien, Flea, Wade Walston, Christina Beck, Maggie Ehrig, Andrew Pece) live together in an abandoned house.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions; infrequent use of sexual slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand, weapons, gun, vehicular, and animal violence, some involving children – some blood and detail; portrayal of and references to suicide – no blood or detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual assault – buttock and female frontal nudity, no detail; infrequent references to sexual and physical abuse - little detail
• Infrequent breast and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use; infrequent references to illegal substance use

Thematic elements

• The families we make
• Youth poverty
• Rejection and counterculture

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence, including sexual violence, nudity, and mature subject matter

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