• Director(s)

    Sidney Lumet

  • Production Year

    1976

  • Release date

    27/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    121m

  • Cast

    Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

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strong language, violence, sex

After a fading news anchor delivers a shocking outburst on live TV, network executives exploit his message for profit. This 1976 satirical black comedy drama contains coarse language and infrequent sex and gun violence.…

After a fading news anchor delivers a shocking outburst on live TV, network executives exploit his message for profit. This 1976 satirical black comedy drama contains coarse language and infrequent sex and gun violence.

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violence

language

sex

discrimination

suicide and self-harm

theme

threat and horror

drugs

  • Director(s)

    Sidney Lumet

  • Production Year

    1976

  • Release date

    27/06/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    121m

  • Cast

    Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

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strong language, violence, sex
Classified Date:
29/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Park Circus Limited
violence
A person is shot multiple times in the head and chest, creating spurts of blood.
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘son of a bitch’, ‘whorehouse’ ‘shit’, ‘bullshit’, ‘pissed’, ‘bastard’ and ‘ass’.
sex
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’.
discrimination
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’.
suicide and self-harm
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.
theme
A character exhibits symptoms including auditory hallucinations and erratic behaviour that lead his friend to conclude that he is having a nervous breakdown.
Classified Date:
01/11/1976
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
United Artists Corp. Ltd
Classified Date:
04/03/2003
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) Ltd
Paperwork Remarks:
Feature and Trailer
Classified Date:
10/06/1999
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Warner Home Video Ltd
Classified Date:
31/07/1987
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Warner Home Video Ltd

  • Classified date

    29/05/2024

  • Language

    English