L.A. Confidential - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  A woman's breasts are briefly seen during an autopsy.

  Women's breasts are seen about three times very briefly throughout the movie.

  Sex is implied between two characters, but not shown.

  An officer finds Inez (Marisol Padilla Sanchez) tied to a bed and with a gag in her mouth. It is stated that she was raped.

  Some pornographic photos are visible.

  Two men encourage a man to have sex with another man. It is later confirmed he performed fellatio on the man.

  A cop enters a house and finds a man half naked with a sex worker and makes him leave.

  Two characters have sex while another man is taking photographs of them.

  Sex work is a main theme in this film.

  As an officer making an arrest enters a house a woman's breasts are briefly seen for a split second.

• Violence

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  Lots of violent takedowns and standoffs.

  Two police officers watch a man abuse his wife. A police officer then beats up the husband.

  Two men are shot up inside a car with some blood mists. Blood can be seen coming out of their mouths.

  Two men get shot up inside a house with blood spurts.

  Corpses of people are briefly seen.

  A girl is seen tied up with several bruises on her body. It is stated that she was brutally raped and beaten.

  A detective finds an extremely rotten corpse underneath a house.

  A woman is punched in the face twice.

  Two police officers fight each other.

  During an interrogation scene, a man's face is bashed into a mirror and dunked in a toilet, and then he is shoved through a wooden screen and dangles from a balcony.

• Profanity

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  Lots and lots of cussing.

  24 uses of "fuck" (mainly by Russell Crowe's character). 11 uses of "shit", 1 use of "cocksucker", 2 uses of "whore", 4 uses of "hell", 4 uses of "goddamn", 4 uses of "bullshit", 8 uses of "ass", 4 uses of "bastard", 4 uses of "prick"

  Some uses of older language like "Negroes", "queer", and "homo".

• Intense Scenes

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  There's a seedy tone pervading much of the film, and the violence can be rather gritty in nature. The beating, the abrupt kill-shot, and the climactic shoot-out are all fairly intense.