Pulp Fiction - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  Two characters talk about if a foot massage is as bad as having sex with someone's wife.

  A man takes a shower, but nothing is shown.

  A man wears a leather suit implied to be a sex suit. But this suit isn't revealing at all.

  Two girls are talking about piercings, one of them mentions that she has a piercing on her genitals.

  A man wears a gimp suit not revealing.

  When Butch gets out of the shower his penis and pubic hair can be seen but very brief.

  A man rapes another man in front of two other men. No nudity. Pushing visible.

  Butch and his girlfriend sleep and makeout together.

  Extended intimate scene between Butch and Fabien.

  Butch performs oral sex on Fabien, Fabien moans with pleasure, no nudity.

• Violence

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  Jules suddenly shoots another man without warning, except that he quickly lifts up his gun toward the couch the man is on. No blood.

  Vincent Vega injects heroin into his arm. It shows the needle slowly piercing and entering his skin in closeup and then as the blood fills up the syringe. This is all shown for a lengthy amount of time and might make some viewers squirm.

  Butch Coolidge punches the gimp in the face, knocking him out.

  Butch Coolidge accidently kills his opponent (offscreen) in a boxing match.

  Butch shoots another man with a submachine gun, causing the man to yelp briefly and fall back onto the toilet, with bloody bullet holes all over his chest.

  Extremely violent and brutal.

  A man is shot several times offscreen by Jules and Vincent. The scene is repeated later on the film with visible blood spurts.

  Butch Coolidge is whipped in the face with the butt of a shotgun by Maynard, knocking him out.

• Profanity

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  265 uses of "f*ck.

  The n-word is used frequently by Jules Winnfield and Marsellus Wallace (both of them being African-Americans). Lance, Maynard, Jimmie and Zed also use the racial slur, making them the only white characters to use it.

  Many uses of 'shit', the N-word, 'motherfucker', 'goddamn', and 'prick'.

  Only a few uses of Hell were heard.

  Pervasive strong language.

  Very severe 18-21+ profanity.

  443 swear words.

• Intense Scenes

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  Although the violence is meant to be darkly funny, some may find it disturbing, intense or distasteful.

  A man is raped in front of other people as a sign of dominance and perversion. Disturbing and upsetting.

  A woman over doses. Some may find the scene disturbing or upsetting.

  Lots of graphic violence to scare many viewers.

  One of the most inappropriate crime movies ever.

  A couple commits robbery on a diner, and threaten other diners with guns.