• Director(s)

    na

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Alistair Petrie, Rebekah Staton

TV Show

The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies

THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE BASED ON A PACK OF LIES is a drama series concerning two women and the conman they have in common; in this episode, a woman discovers that the man who cheated her has adopted a new identity.…

THE FOLLOWING EVENTS ARE BASED ON A PACK OF LIES is a drama series concerning two women and the conman they have in common; in this episode, a woman discovers that the man who cheated her has adopted a new identity.

  • Director(s)

    na

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Alistair Petrie, Rebekah Staton

infrequent strong language, moderate violence
Classified Date:
02/10/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man takes a woman's dog, locks it in a case and throws it in a lake. However, a woman retrieves the case and saves the dog. There is no real animal cruelty.
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'fricking', 'bloody', 'shit', 'bugger', 'piss', 'bastard', 'arse', 'hell', 'God').
additional issues
A woman's car crashes into a tree; however, there is no injury detail. There are also verbal references to mental health, brief death references, and mild verbal sex references.
infrequent strong language
Classified Date:
02/10/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'bastard', 'shit', and 'God'.
additional issues
Undetailed verbal references are made to a person attempting to drown a dog. There is a scene of mild threat in which a woman appears visibly frightened when encountering a villainous character, however, this is brief and infrequent. There are verbal references to mental health and illness. A man reveals burn scars on his back which he implies resulted from childhood domestic abuse. There is also natural male rear nudity and mild sex references.
strong violence, threat, language
Classified Date:
02/10/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman is pinned to the wall by the throat by a man who begins to choke her, keeping his grip in place for a sustained period; he releases her when he realises she has wet herself. We see a man watching a scene from the film Fatal Attraction on television, in which a male character pins a woman to a wall by her throat.
threat and horror
We see the moment in the film 'Fatal Attraction' in which a woman discovers a pet rabbit has been boiled and killed in a pot, causing her to scream. A man behaves in an intimidating way towards a woman and also speaks to her in a humiliating manner after being physically abusive toward her. A woman is led to believe people are being held hostage and threatened with death.
language
There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'bitch', 'pussy', 'slut', 'shit', 'bloody', 'screw', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'.
additional issues
There are references to suicide. There are references to the controlling and gaslighting behaviour of a man toward several women in his life, which appears to have contributed to mental health concerns they have experienced. There are references to the illness and death of loved ones. A man thrusts his pelvis in a sexualied but comic way while wearing underwear. There are undetailed, fleeting references to sex work.
very strong language, strong threat
Classified Date:
02/10/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A abusive ex-husband repeatedly threatens his previous partner with violence and implies he will also harm her young son. There is a flashback to him with his hands around her neck, pinning her against a wall and threatening to throttle her.
language
Infrequent use of very strong language ('c**t') is accompanied by strong ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'twat', 'shit', 'balls', 'God' and Christ'.
additional issues
Two women describe the emotional and physical domestic abuse they suffered at the hands of their e- husband. There are references to abortion as well as mild sex references. A man describes a woman he believes is mentally ill as a 'psycho' and 'lunatic'.
very strong language
Classified Date:
02/10/2023
Use:
Physical Media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), while strong language ('f**k') occurs throughout. Milder terms include 'bitch', 'cock', 'shit', 'bastard', 'piss' and 'tart'.
additional issues
There is moderate violence including brief bloody images. There are scenes of mild threat and horror, and references to suicide and mental health.
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  • Classified date

    02/10/2023

  • Distributor

    2 entertain Video Ltd.

  • Language

    English