American History X - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  The movie begins with the main character having sex with his girlfriend. You see thrusting and bare breasts briefly.

  The only nudity in this movie are some male buttocks in the shower and bare breasts briefly in the sex scene

  Brief male genitalia and buttocks are shown in the shower scenes, which take place in a prison. Very brief, non-sexual.

• Violence

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  A man gets elbowed in the face during a basketball game. Blood is seen on the ground. Later he spits out a lot of blood.

  There are scenes that are quite disturbing and violent but the violence is in no way glorified and is always shown in a negative tone.

  A gang of white supremacists rob and terrorize a grocery store that employs minorities, hitting and kicking various individuals multiple times onscreen. An immigrant woman is forced onto a converyr belt and has lots of sauces and milk poured on her face as a form of waterboarding.

  A group of black teens kick a caucasian teen twice in the chest before they are stopped. A bit of blood is seen on the victim's mouth.

  Derek punches and kicks an old man in the face once for trying to corrupt his brother Danny. Blood runs down his nose.

  Derek angrily shoves a mouthful of food in his sister's mouth to keep her from talking. This briefly causes her to choke. She then wields a baseball bat.

• Profanity

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  214 uses of "fuck", 30 uses of "shit", 38 uses of "nigger", 5 uses of "bitch", 4 uses of "asshole" and "spic", 3 uses of "kike" and "monkey", 3 uses of "cracker", 1 use of "spooks", "Son of a Bitch", "pecker wood", "beaner", "ass", and "niglet". Lamont holds a sheet above his head and proceeds to mock a Ku Klux Klan member, using the N word several times. He and Derek both break into laughter afterwards.

  Profanity is used constantly throughout the entire film.

  Severe racial profanity which can make the movie hard to watch almost every sentence there's a swear it goes from words like "hell" and "damn" to "nigger" and "kike".

  Middle finger gesture used.

• Intense Scenes

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  The main character's acts of domestic violence during a dinner scene are emotionally disturbing and upsetting.

  This movie can be very disturbing and violent at times and when it is, it is very shocking and brutal.

  The main plot in this movie is about the brutality of racism, and it could be disturbing for some viewers.

  This is the movie where the infamous curb stomp scene is from.

  No racial group is left out of the hate exercised in this movie.