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A person is shot multiple times in the head and chest, creating spurts of blood.

There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘son of a bitch’, ‘whorehouse’ ‘shit’, ‘bullshit’, ‘pissed’, ‘bastard’ and ‘ass’.

During a comic sex scene, a couple remove their clothes before one person straddles the other on a bed and cries out loudly. In another scene a man is shown attempting to kiss and caress his partner as they sit naked in bed, but she dismisses his advances. The film contains no visible nudity. There are occasional moderate verbal sex references, such as uses of ‘f**k’ in the sexual sense, innuendo involving the term ‘cocksmanship’, and a scene in which people compare a newsroom to a ‘whorehouse’ and its output to ‘pornography’.

A Black woman sarcastically refers to herself as a ‘commie n****r’. There is a comic reference to a ‘homosexual soap opera’ titled ‘The Dykes’. A TV psychic is described as a ‘gypsy’. Other scenes feature discriminatory terms related to mental health, such as ‘maniac’, ‘lunatic’ and ‘insane’.

Several scenes feature verbal suicide references after a newsreader announces that he plans to kill himself on air. The references are not strongly graphic, however, and no characters take their own lives.

A character exhibits symptoms including auditory hallucinations and erratic behaviour that lead his friend to conclude that he is having a nervous breakdown.