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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Contains some kissing and stroking between characters (including some French kisses). A beatnick encourages teenagers to "take off our clothes and smoke reefer". Peggy and Seaweed briefly have sex in the alley, but we just see their faces.

Violence & Gore

Some very mild violence. There is a riot scene which contains some unrealistic, over-the-top violence. A girl is given electric shock treatments. A fistfight leaves Link in a wheelchair, but there's nothing graphic and no blood.

Profanity

Some mild language (e.g. "whore" "asshole") as well as some use of "queer" and "Negro".

A woman offers a group of teenagers some "reefer".

A woman appears to be using a joint in order to ignite an object.

The kids are offered drinks, but they don't take them.

Cory Collins drinks from a bottle of liquor.

Contains discrimination, segregation and mental illness themes, all presented in a light-hearted and satirical fashion. The film largely revolves around a TV show where "colored" persons are not allowed. Such behavior is not condoned throughout the film.

One character panicks when she finds herself in a neigborhood dominated by African Americans. When she requests a taxi and discovers that the chaffuer is African America she screams in terror.

A "race riot" ensues when non-whites are denied access to a carnival.

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