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IMDb Ratinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt13521006/parentalguide
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Commonsensemedia Ratinghttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/beau-is-afraid
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Message 1/5 | It's hard to nail down exactly what this movie is about, but it winds up on a pessimistic note. You could interpret it as saying that if fear is instilled in you when you're young, you may never be able to find redemption. But, of course, viewers can choose to live life the opposite of the way Beau does, not letting baseless fears get the better of them.
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Role model 1/5 | Roger and Grace are initially good samaritans, but their motives become increasingly cloudy (their solution for every problem is more pills, etc.). Beau goes on an odyssey to face his fears, which is admirable, but what he finds isn't exactly uplifting. It's as if he spent his entire life being afraid and searching for meaning, but because it all stems from his relationship with his mother -- and therefore was built into his system at a young age -- it's too late for him to find redemption.
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Diverse 1/5 | Aside from Black actor Stephen McKinley Henderson, who plays Beau's therapist, and an actor who appears in the theater sequence (Patrick Kwok-Choon, of Chinese descent), most of the main cast is White. And the primary focus is on a White man, although the cast is pretty well split between women and men. But while the women seem strong and have agency, they're all secondary characters supporting the male lead.
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Violence 5/5 | Rotting corpse in street. Dead bodies. Headless body. Characters killed. Gory wounds. Piece of broken glass embedded in head; blood pours out when removed. Sequence of guns and shooting. Character stabbed several times. One character gouges another's eyes out. Person threatened with gun. Character violently hit by motor vehicle. Character violently attacked. Man's testicles on fire. Murderer on loose who stabs people. Gunshot noises and screaming. Deadly spider bites. Person hits head on hard objects. Character crashes through glass window. A man chokes a woman. Woman falls into glass cabinet. Man on rampage, with hypodermic needles sticking out of his back. Teen girl dies by suicide from drinking paint. Vulgar graffiti (man peeing and drinking own urine, man ejaculating). Character held captive. Giant penis-shaped monster. Person repeatedly stabs monster, gets killed by monster's claws. Outboard motor explodes. Drowning.
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Sex 5/5 | Full-frontal male and female nudity in various scenes. Fairly graphic sex scene, with one character on top of another; one character climaxes, and the other keeps going, moaning, until she climaxes, too. Implied oral sex (one partner shown with head between another's legs). Teens kiss. Teen girl seen in bra. Strong sex-related dialogue. Adult sex shop seen.
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Language 4/5 | Several uses of "f--k," "s--t," "c--k," "c--t," "t-ts," "a--hole," "p---y," "bitch," "cum," "whore," "slut," "f--got," "pissed," "oh my God," "stupid," "idiot."
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Consumerism 0/5 | Several uses of "f--k," "s--t," "c--k," "c--t," "t-ts," "a--hole," "p---y," "bitch," "cum," "whore," "slut," "f--got," "pissed," "oh my God," "stupid," "idiot."
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Drinking 0/5 | Characters, including a teen, take prescription drugs. Pills are given to solve every problem. Teen smokes weed. Main character smokes weed. A character confesses to "drowning her sorrows" and adds that her "breath is pure wine." Cigarette smoking.
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