Django Unchained (2012)

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Synopsis

Action/Drama. In pre-Civil War America, a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) and his partner Django (Jamie Foxx), a freed slave, hatch a scheme to free Django’s wife from a brutal plantation owner (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Pervasive use of ethno-cultural slurs in an historical context
• Frequent gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a torture context – blood, gore, and some brutal detail
• Brief breast, buttock, and male frontal nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• The inhumanity of slavery
• Personal mythology
• Justice and revenge

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for frequent gory violence and pervasive use of coarse and derogatory language

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