Last Picture Show, The (1971)

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Synopsis

Dir: Peter Bogdanovich. Drama. A high school student (Timothy Bottoms) in a small-town comes to terms with impending adulthood and contemplates his future.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - no detail
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence - little blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of death and dying - no detail
• Portrayal of a sexual assault - buttock nudity, little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - breast nudity, little detail
• Infrequent breast and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context; brief male and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• Coming of age
• Loyalty and betrayal
• Coping with loss

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for nudity, sexual content, and violence

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