• Director(s)

    Matt Ross

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Betty Gilpin, Dan Stevens, Darby Camp, Hamish Linklater

TV Show

Gaslit

GASLIT is a political thriller series; in this episode Martha struggles with the demands of the re-election campaign while John is unknowingly drawn into a conspiracy.

GASLIT is a political thriller series; in this episode Martha struggles with the demands of the re-election campaign while John is unknowingly drawn into a conspiracy.

  • Director(s)

    Matt Ross

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Betty Gilpin, Dan Stevens, Darby Camp, Hamish Linklater

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

strong language, sex references, nudity, brief drug misuse, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
28/04/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man slaps his wife, who slaps him back.
language
There is use of strong language (‘c**ksucker’, ‘f**k’) and milder terms (‘shit’, ‘asshole’, ‘dick’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’).
sex
There are strong references to anal sex, oral sex and men being birthed out of ‘swollen wet vaginas’.
drugs
There is a brief scene of drug misuse in which a couple share a joint.
nudity
After a couple have sex, a woman talks to her lover while nude.
A man holds his hand over a flame. There is use of homophobic language including terms such as 'fag' and 'queers'.
strong language
Classified Date:
28/04/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k') as well as use of milder terms such as 'shit', 'bullshit', 'asshole' and 'dick'.
Moderate sex references include brief verbal references to 'rough sex' and descriptions of phone sex. There is also a brief moment of threat in which a man grabs a woman ominously.
strong language, threat, sex
Classified Date:
05/05/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A man keeps a woman prisoner and becomes violent when she tries to escape, terrifying her.
language
There is use of strong language (f**k', 'c**ksucker'), as well as other terms such as 'bitch' and 'Jesus Christ'.
sex
There is a strong sex scene, without nudity. There are references to erections and masturbation.
There is moderate violence, including the breaking of a finger. There are moderate bloody images in the aftermath of a man's presumed suicide. There is racist behaviour towards people of Cuban and Italian heritage.
drug misuse, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
28/04/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are scenes of domestic abuse, depicted as flashbacks, in which a man injects his wife with drugs to keep her docile and captive. There are also scenes in which the woman's trauma is triggered by certain noises, or in which she experiences very vivid, violent nightmares. Other strong violence in the work pertains to torture, in which a man is waterboarded in attempts to keep him from 'squealing' to the FBI.
drugs
There is a brief scene of solvent abuse. Other drug misuse and accompanying references pertain to a woman mixing Diazepam with alcohol.
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), accompanied by other milder terms ('pussy', 'bastard', 'bullshit', 'shit', 'crap', 'ass', 'asshole', 'frickin'', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'God', 'hell' and 'screwed'). There are scenes of strong sex and sexualised nudity during what is referred to as a 'f**k party', in which men and women walk around naked and sometimes are seen engaged in thrusty sex.
strong language
Classified Date:
10/05/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), as well as other terms such as 'bitch' and 'prick'. There is discriminatory language such as 'faggot' and 'dago'.
There is moderate sex. There is a brief scene of psychological torture. There are references to domestic abuse. There are also undetailed references to prescription drug misuse.
very strong language
Classified Date:
24/05/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent very strong language (‘c**t’), use of strong language (‘f**k’), as well as use of other terms such as ‘shit’, ‘Jesus Christ’ and ‘hell’.
A woman suffers a miscarriage. In another scene, a woman makes a homophobic remark when she tells her daughter that she “looks like a lesbian”. There are also references to prostitution and drugs.
strong language, violence, domestic abuse, injury detail
Classified Date:
09/06/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are scenes of strong bloody violence as a man bites off another's ear during a prison brawl. There are also scenes of domestic abuse in which a man is physically and verbally violent towards his wife, sometimes in their presence of their teenage daughter.
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), accompanied by other milder terms ('bitch', 'whore', 'bastard', 'shit', 'ass', 'balls', 'Christ', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn').
injury detail
There is bloody injury detail after a man traps his arm in a mousetrap.
There are references to suicide, including a man coming close to taking his own life in prison. There is racist behaviour when a man pulls back his eyelids in a Cantonese restaurant and mockingly suggests that no employee speaks English. There are visual and verbal references to mental health, alcohol addiction and prescription drug misuse.
very strong language
Classified Date:
09/06/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), as well as more frequent strong language ('f**k'), and other terms such as 'bitch' and 'Christ'. The discriminatory term 'fag' is used.
There is moderate threat. It is implied that a woman misuses prescription drugs. There is brief antisemitism. A woman slaps her daughter. There are mild sex references. There is natural buttock nudity.
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Classified Date:
21/04/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Silk Factory
Cuts:
The distributor chose to make changes to the advert in order to achieve their preferred PG category. Shots of threat, gun threat and distress were removed in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut 12A was available.
  • Classified date

    28/04/2022

  • Distributor

    Starz.

  • Language

    English