• Director(s)

    Dennis Hopper

  • Production Year

    1980

  • Release date

    30/09/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    95m

  • Cast

    Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell

Film

Out Of The Blue

strong language, violence, sex, drug misuse, sexual and domestic abuse

OUT OF THE BLUE is a US drama, from 1980, in which a teenage girl goes off the rails as she struggles to cope with her dysfunctional family life.…

OUT OF THE BLUE is a US drama, from 1980, in which a teenage girl goes off the rails as she struggles to cope with her dysfunctional family life.

violence
A man is stabbed several times, without strong detail, resulting in a blood spurt and brief, bloody aftermath detail. A man slaps his teenage daughter when she disobeys him, and delivers verbal abuse to his wife.
language
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'bitch', 'dick', 'ass', 'asshole', 'tits', 'piss', shit' and 'screw'. There are rude middle finger gestures.
sex
A couple under the influence of alcohol and drugs stumble around in a messy dance during which the man gropes the woman's breasts and crotch over her nightdress. A man briefly fondles a woman's breast at a party. Three topless women pose in the front seat of a car as a man in the back films them.
drugs
A woman ties a belt to her arm and injects herself with heroin, but without strong detail. Characters smoke joints. There are references to cocaine.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A teenage girl confronts her father with the sexual abuse he commited on her in the past; in an unsettling scene, she pushes his head between her underwear-clad legs and demands, "Have a good look. Do you remember, daddy?" There is no sense of her initiating sexual activity, and it is clear that her actions are borne from trauma for which she wants to punish her father. In another scene, the girl faces brief sexual threat from a man whilst under the influence of marijuana, but extricates herself without coming to harm. Adult men make dubious comments about teenage girls. It is implied that a man has sex with his wife against her wishes, but no details are shown.
additional issues
There is an undetailed scene of suicide in which characters die in an explosion. There are also references to suicide. There are flashbacks to a truck ploughing into a school bus, and subsequent references to children dying in the incident. There is discriminatory language ('dykes').

  • Director(s)

    Dennis Hopper

  • Production Year

    1980

  • Release date

    30/09/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    95m

  • Cast

    Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell

strong language, violence, sex, drug misuse, sexual and domestic abuse
Classified Date:
03/08/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
A man is stabbed several times, without strong detail, resulting in a blood spurt and brief, bloody aftermath detail. A man slaps his teenage daughter when she disobeys him, and delivers verbal abuse to his wife.
language
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'bitch', 'dick', 'ass', 'asshole', 'tits', 'piss', shit' and 'screw'. There are rude middle finger gestures.
sex
A couple under the influence of alcohol and drugs stumble around in a messy dance during which the man gropes the woman's breasts and crotch over her nightdress. A man briefly fondles a woman's breast at a party. Three topless women pose in the front seat of a car as a man in the back films them.
drugs
A woman ties a belt to her arm and injects herself with heroin, but without strong detail. Characters smoke joints. There are references to cocaine.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A teenage girl confronts her father with the sexual abuse he commited on her in the past; in an unsettling scene, she pushes his head between her underwear-clad legs and demands, "Have a good look. Do you remember, daddy?" There is no sense of her initiating sexual activity, and it is clear that her actions are borne from trauma for which she wants to punish her father. In another scene, the girl faces brief sexual threat from a man whilst under the influence of marijuana, but extricates herself without coming to harm. Adult men make dubious comments about teenage girls. It is implied that a man has sex with his wife against her wishes, but no details are shown.
additional issues
There is an undetailed scene of suicide in which characters die in an explosion. There are also references to suicide. There are flashbacks to a truck ploughing into a school bus, and subsequent references to children dying in the incident. There is discriminatory language ('dykes').
Classified Date:
07/09/1981
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Cinegate Ltd
Classified Date:
22/11/2001
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
Classified Date:
17/04/1984
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Cyclo Video

  • Classified date

    03/08/2022

  • Language

    English