River's Edge (1986)

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Synopsis

Dir: Tim Hunter. Drama. After a high school student (Daniel Roebuck) murders a classmate (Danyi Deats), his friends (Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye) are conflicted about whether or not they should report the crime.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatalogical slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar epressions
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and gun violence - little blood, some detail
• Frequent portrayals of corpses - female frontal nudity and buttock nudity, detail; infrequent references to sexual assault - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - no nudity, some detail
• Frequent portrayals of cannabis, tobacco, alcohol, and prescription drug abuse use in a recreational context, most involving teenagers

Thematic elements

• Loyalty and betrayal
• Accountability
• Apathy versus empathy

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for disturbing content, nudity, violence, and coarse language

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