Middle Man, The (2021)

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Synopsis

Dir: Bent Hamer. Dark Comedy. Based on the novel 'Sluk' by Lars Saabye Christensen. In a town that suffers a lot of accidents, an unemployed man (Pål Sverre Hagen) is hired to inform the next of kin when people die.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of cursing, profanity, and scatological slang
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence - some blood, little detail; infrequent portrayals of corpses, injuries, and medical patients - some blood, little detail; frequent portrayals of grief
• Infrequent portrayals of smoking and alcohol use in a recreational context - little detail

Thematic elements

• Coping with grief
• Tragedy, fate, and luck
• Appearance versus reality

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language

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