Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Tom Stern. Documentary/Music. Tells the story of the early 1980s Texas art-punk band The Butthole Surfers and follows them over the course of 40 years.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand, weapons, and gun violence, some involving dolls and puppets, some in a film clip context - blood and some detail; infrequent depictions of surgery in a film reel context - some blood, detail
• Infrequent references to child sexual assault - some detail
• Infrequent references to death - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - no nudity, some detail
• Frequent buttock, breast, male and female frontal, and male genital nudity in a non-sexual context
• Frequent portrayals of cannabis, tobacco, alcohol, and intravenous drug use in a recreational context; frequent references to drug use and addiction - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - detail

Thematic elements

• Group dynamics
• Art as subversion
• Excess

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for crude content, coarse language, nudity, and substance abuse

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