Inland Empire (2006)

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Synopsis

Drama. An aging actress (Laura Dern), cast in a film based on an incomplete Polish production abandoned after the lead actors were murdered, finds her perception of reality wavering when her life begins to merge in strange ways with the fictional world of the story.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive, often in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent use of crude and descriptive sexual language and references
• Infrequent weapons violence—blood and detailed wounds
• Portrayal of sexual activity—no nudity, little detail
• Breast nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• Surrealism and ambiguity
• Distorting perception and reality

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language, violence, sexual content, and nudity.

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