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Synopsis

Dir: Laura Poitras. Documentary. Through photos used in her exhibits, activist and photographer Nan Goldin discusses her life as well as leading a campaign to hold the family who developed the drug Oxycontin accountable for their role in the opioid crisis.

Content elements

  • Frequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
  • Frequent references to physical and sexual abuse; infrequent images in a domestic dispute and pictoral context - some blood and detail
  • Frequent depictions of breast, buttock, and male and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual, pictoral context
  • Infrequent depictions of sexual activity - buttock, breast, and male genital nudity, explicit detail
  • Frequent references to drug use in an addictions context; frequent depictions of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

  • Art and activism
  • Confronting the opioid crisis
  • Legacies

Classification rationale

Rated R for explicit depictions of sexual activity

Classification date

November 24, 2022

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