Running Man, The (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Edgar Wright. Action/Comedy. Based on the novel by Stephen King. A man (Glen Powell) joins a game show where the players are hunted by hired killers.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Frequent portrayals of hand-to-hand, weapons, and gun violence in a genre context, some in the context of torture - blood and detail
• Brief buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - little detail

Thematic elements

• Survival
• Power and control
• Media and manipulation

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence and coarse language

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