No Country For Old Men

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Synopsis

Drama/Thriller. Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Stumbling upon a satchel filled with cash left following a drug deal gone wrong, a Vietnam veteran (Josh Brolin) travels across Texas in an attempt to elude pursuit, followed each step of the way by an assassin (Javier Bardem) who leaves a bloody trail in his passing.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent use of crude sexual references
• Frequent gun, weapons and hand-to-hand violence—blood and detailed wounds
• Portrayal of corpses—blood and detailed wounds

Thematic elements

• Struggling against the tides of change
• The inevitability of death
• The inequity of chance

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for frequent detailed gory violence.

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