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14A(14A) Coarse Language

Synopsis

Dir: Peter Scriver, Seth Scriver. Animation/Documentary. Two half-brothers, one Indigenous, one white, look back on their up-bringing in the 1980s in remote Shamattawa.

Content elements

  • Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang; infrequent use of cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
  • Brief portrayal of hand-to-hand violence - no blood or detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of injury - no blood, some detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of animal butchery and animal copulation - some detail
  • Frequent references to residential schools, incarceration, suicide, poverty, and loss
  • Infrequent buttock, male genital, and male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
  • Infrequent portrayals of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use in a recreational context
  • Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - some detail

Thematic elements

  • Family
  • Home and belonging
  • Storytelling

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language, mature subject matter, nudity, and crude content

Classification date

June 06, 2025

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