• Director(s)

    Adina Smith

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    10/10/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    47m

  • Cast

    Brie Larson, Stephanie Koenig, Alice Halsey

Film

Lessons In Chemistry

sexism, implied sexual threat

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY is a US drama series; in this episode, a female scientist in the 1950s struggles to further her research in the face of workplace discrimination.…

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY is a US drama series; in this episode, a female scientist in the 1950s struggles to further her research in the face of workplace discrimination.

discrimination
A 1950s female lab tech faces demeaning, sexist attitudes from her male colleagues who address her as ‘sweetie’ and ‘young lady’, discredit her intelligence and stifle her research opportunities. Her boss threatens to fire her unless she participates in a beauty pageant, and requests that she boost her ‘sex appeal’. The episode as a whole is clearly critical of sexism.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman is visibly afraid when her boss corners her in a room alone with him; the sequence is intercut with fragmented flashbacks of her attempting to back away from an unseen person, and of a hand locking a door. However, no sexual violence occurs on screen.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘shit’, ‘God’ and ‘Jesus Christ’. There is brief natural buttock nudity as a man takes a shower. Other issues include a scene of vomiting.

  • Director(s)

    Adina Smith

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    10/10/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    47m

  • Cast

    Brie Larson, Stephanie Koenig, Alice Halsey

sexism, implied sexual threat
Classified Date:
06/10/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Everyman Cinema
discrimination
A 1950s female lab tech faces demeaning, sexist attitudes from her male colleagues who address her as ‘sweetie’ and ‘young lady’, discredit her intelligence and stifle her research opportunities. Her boss threatens to fire her unless she participates in a beauty pageant, and requests that she boost her ‘sex appeal’. The episode as a whole is clearly critical of sexism.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman is visibly afraid when her boss corners her in a room alone with him; the sequence is intercut with fragmented flashbacks of her attempting to back away from an unseen person, and of a hand locking a door. However, no sexual violence occurs on screen.
additional issues
Bad language includes ‘shit’, ‘God’ and ‘Jesus Christ’. There is brief natural buttock nudity as a man takes a shower. Other issues include a scene of vomiting.

  • Classified date

    06/10/2023

  • Language

    English