Burden (2018)

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Synopsis

Drama. In 1996 South Carolina, a young man (Garrett Hedlund) involved in the opening of a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan falls in love with a woman (Andrea Riseborough) who doesn't share his racist views.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context, sometimes in an aggressive context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, ethno-cultural slurs, and vulgar expressions; infrequent use of sexual slurs
• Frequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - some blood, little detail
• Frequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions in an assault context - no nudity, some detail

Thematic elements

• Redemption
• Racism
• Forgiveness and kindness

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language and violence

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