Heaven's Gate (Director's Cut) (1980)

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Synopsis

Dir: Michael Cimino. In the late 1800s in Wyoming, a sheriff (Kris Kristofferson) and his friends and colleagues (Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Walken, Jeff Bridges, John Hurt) take sides in a brewing war between rich cattle owners and poor immigrant settlers.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions; infrequent use of scatological slang and sexual slurs
• A single detailed portrayal of sexual violence - breast, buttock, and female frontal nudity; some blood, wound detail, and suffering
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence - much blood and detail; infrequent portrayals of violence involving animals - blood and detail
• Infrequent breast, buttock, and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of sexually suggestive scenes - breast and buttock nudity
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions
• Frequent portrayals of smoking and alcohol use in a recreational context - little detail

Thematic elements

• Power and control
• The immigrant experience
• Struggles for land

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for sexual violence

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