Saltburn (2023)

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Synopsis

Dir: Emerald Fennell. Comedy/Drama/Thriller. A student on scholarship to Oxford (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the lives of his aristocratic classmate's (Jacob Elordi) eccentric family (Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver).

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - some detail
• Infrequent references to suicide - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of death and corpses - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - buttock nudity, detail
• Infrequent buttock and male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
• Frequent portrayals of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal substance use in a recreational context; infrequent references to addiction - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions and substances - some detail

Thematic elements

• Power and control
• Greed and ego
• Class and privilege

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for sexual content, coarse language, and nudity

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