Mosquito Bowl, The (2026)

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Synopsis

Dir: Peter Berg. History/Drama. Based on the book 'The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II' by Buzz Bissinger. In 1944, after joining the U.S. Marines, four football players (Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Galitzine, Ray Nicholson, Stacy Clausen) participate in a game of football to help boost morale.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, and cursing; infrequent use of vulgar expressions and ethno-cultural slurs
• Infrequent use of sexual language - little detail
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapon, and hand-to-hand violence, most in a World War II context - blood, dismemberment, and wound detail; frequent portrayals, and depictions, of corpses - little detail
• Frequent portrayals of suicide in a war context - some blood and detail
• Infrequent buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Frequent portrayals of tobacco and alcohol use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Honour and duty
• Teamwork
• Horrors of war

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for brutal violence and coarse language

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