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(2005)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for some violent/disturbing images and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A young girl is shown naked in a bathtub, camera angles keep everything hidden so we don't see any nudity
  • A little bit of cleavage throughout but nothing major

Violence & Gore

  • A man says that about 50 years ago some people killed themselves by jumping off a cliff. Later we are shown them jumping off to their deaths
  • Some sheep trample a girl and then jump off a cliff into the water later the sheep's dead bodies are seen being removed from the water the girl comments about them jumping
  • A woman keeps having dreams of her daughter being tortured/killed these scenes are shown and appear briefly but often.
  • We are shown scenes of a little girl being tortured by her father
  • A man falls off a ledge and on to a spike killing him
  • A woman is stabbed in the head we see blood
  • None of the violence depicted in this movie is graphic, nor particularly bloody or intense.
  • A man is pushed into a pit by a group of sheep, lands and is impaled by a sharp object.
  • A woman has her head trepanned without anesthesia.
  • A woman finds a piece of human jaw bone on the beach.
  • We briefly see some blood dripping down a girl's face.
  • Many women, men and children jump off a cliff in a scene of mass suicide. One mother pushes her baby's crib off the edge to kill them. Shots of them landing in the water and drowning as a man watches.
  • A group of sheep jumps down a cliff. They are later seen dead in the water, and a man seems to be butchering them (no graphic detail).

Profanity

  • A few F-words, mainly from a young girl. A few religious swears.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • In a flashback scene we see a girl attempt to commit suicide by taking pills
  • A woman smokes a cigarette.
  • A girl takes some sleeping pills.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is quite a few frightening scenes listed under the violence and gore category refer there for more info
  • This film has drama, mystery and peril. It revolves around ghosts, death, and mass suicide. Some scenes can be frightening to young viewers, other scenes are quite sad.
  • A little girl falls in the ocean and disappears; she is presumed dead.
  • A woman is convinced to kill herself, and there are a number of flashbacks in which she is head-trepanned without an anesthetic. Although not graphic, this is pretty intense and painful to watch.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A woman grabs a little girl and jumps off a cliff with the girl this is done in an attempt to kill her

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