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Burn After Reading
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Sex & Nudity

One of the characters is a womanizer...he is shown having relations with 3 women including his wife

a few sex scenes here and there but nothing graphic

several other sexual jokes and references

Violence & Gore

A man hiding in a closet is accidentally shot in the head, with lots of blood and matter spurting onto the wall and the clothes inside the closet. You then see another shot of his lifeless body, with parts of his bloodied face visible, and matter visible on the clothes hanging in the closet.

A man is shot in the shoulder(blood spills inside his clothes) and then after throwing an object at the shooter, runs outside and is hacked to death with an axe(from a distance, you see screaming, and see resultant blood after a cracking sound).

Profanity

foul language, including 17 utterings of "F*ck", and many s-words.

What should be noted is a large amount of the cursing comes from one character who's prone to aggression.

Osbourne is demoted to a lower paying, not-so secret job because of his alcoholism. He attempts to defend himself, and uses his bosses Mormon faith as an insult. However, it is revealed a few seconds later that he does have a drinking problem when you see him preparing a rum and coke or something along the lines of that. In a scene shortly after, he's seen passed out on a recliner, and he drinks to excess many times throughout.

Some casual drinking at restaurants.

There's only about 2 minutes worth of violence out of a 95 minute film, but these brief scenes are quiet disturbing, both in impact to the storyline and what occurs on screen. The 2 characters who even slightly resemble a foil to all the despicable behavior on display are killed, the first one via an accidental gunshot to the head(the bullet enters with lots of blood and matter spurting immediately onto the walls in a closet and the clothes inside that closet), and the other one via a shot to the shoulder(blood spills inside his clothes) and an axe to the head(from a distance, you see screaming, and resultant blood after a cracking sound).

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MPAA:
Rated R for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence.
Certification:
USA:R (certificate #44448) / Canada:13+ (Québec) / Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Ontario) / Denmark:15 / Finland:K-13 / Australia:MA / Singapore:M18 (cut) / Singapore:NC-16 (video rating) (heavily cut) / UK:15 / Portugal:M/12 / Germany:12 / New Zealand:R16 / Norway:15 / Sweden:15 / Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) / Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) / Brazil:14 / Argentina:16 / Netherlands:12 / Hong Kong:IIB / Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) / Japan:PG-12 / Czech Republic:15 / Peru:14 / France:U / South Korea:18 / Iceland:14 (video rating) / Iceland:16 (original rating)

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