• Director(s)

    Malik Bendjelloul

  • Production Year

    2012

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    166m

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Searching For Sugar Man

Contains one use of strong language and moderate drug references

Two men set out to find out what happened to a once-popular musician in this investigative documentary. References to rumours about the singer's suicide turn out to be unfounded.…

Two men set out to find out what happened to a once-popular musician in this investigative documentary. References to rumours about the singer's suicide turn out to be unfounded.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

injury detail

suicide and self-harm

violence

threat and horror

  • Director(s)

    Malik Bendjelloul

  • Production Year

    2012

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    166m

Posters powered by IMDb
Contains one use of strong language and moderate drug references
Classified Date:
14/06/2012
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
language
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k').
drugs
There are occasional references to drugs as the lyrics of one song are discussed. The song in question refers to "jumpers, coke and sweet Mary Jane", with the latter being a slang term for marijuana.
additional issues
There is use of mild sex references as a repeated line from a song asks "I wonder how many times you’ve had sex" and other lyrics mention 'hooker bars'. In one song lyric from the early 1970s, there is also a reference to a 'faggot bar'. There are several verbal references to various differing rumours about how the singer had supposedly killed himself live on stage.
Contains one use of strong language and moderate drug references
Classified Date:
25/09/2012
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Canal
language
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms, such as 'shit'.
sex
There is use of mild sex references as a repeated line from a song asks "I wonder how many times you’ve had sex" and other lyrics mention 'hooker bars'.
discrimination
In one song lyric from the early 1970s, there is also a reference to a 'faggot bar'. There is also sight of 'Whites Only' signs in historical footage of South Africa.
drugs
There are occasional references to drugs as the lyrics of one song are discussed. The song in question refers to 'jumpers, coke and sweet Mary Jane', with the latter being a slang term for marijuana.
injury detail
There are references to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, with accompanying sight of dead bodies in newsreel footage. These are not graphic.
suicide and self-harm
There are several verbal references to differing rumours about how the singer had supposedly killed himself live on stage. These are not true.
additional issues
There is use of mild sex references as a repeated line from a song asks "I wonder how many times you’ve had sex" and other lyrics mention 'hooker bars'. In one song lyric from the early 1970s, there is also a reference to a 'faggot bar'. There are several verbal references to various differing rumours about how the singer had supposedly killed himself live on stage.
Classified Date:
27/09/2012
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Studio Canal
Classified Date:
20/06/2012
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal

  • Classified date

    25/09/2012

  • BBFC reference

    AVF290888

  • Language

    English