Novocaine (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen. Thriller/Comedy. When the girl (Amber Midthunder) he likes is kidnapped, a bank employee (Jack Quaid)—who has a medical condition that makes him incapable of feeling physical pain—sets out to rescue her.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in a sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, and vulgar expressions
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in torture context - much blood and gory brutal detail; frequent portrayals of injuries - blood and gory detail
• Infrequent references to suicide and self-harm - little detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - little detail

Thematic elements

• Perspectives on pain
• Love and loyalty
• Appearances vs reality

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for gory brutal violence and coarse language

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