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Short Term 12 (2013)

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Support them. Take care of them. But don't become their friend.

Aug 23,2013

Hollywood Movies | Drama

Ratings: 8 / 10 from

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Length: 96 Minute(s)
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
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nudity 5/10 Some kissing. A couple of scenes where a woman is filmed having a shower, but the camera always shows only from the shoulders up, so not much is seen. A man and woman discuss how long it has been since they have had sex. They start to kiss and proceed to lie down on the couch with the man on top. He reaches between her legs while they kiss. The scene last for about 30 seconds and they are always clothed. A character briefly discusses sexual abuse she had suffered in the past. A girl asks if she can display pictures of penises on her wall. A woman answers, "only if they are scientific". In a later scene, several anatomical illustrations of penises and male genitalia are shown on the girl's wall.
violence 5/10. A young woman discovers a teen boy holding a piece of bloody glass, he slumps over, leaving blood on a doorway; we see gashes on his forearm. Next, she's in a hospital waiting room with blood on her shirt and hands, and a young man is washing the blood from the doorway (we learn the teen boy survived a suicide attempt). A teen girl angrily cuts her hand with her thumbnail, which there is a small amount of blood on. A young woman picks at the cuticles of her thumb (we see her thumb bloody) and she accidentally smears the blood on her temple. On two different occasions we see the following: a pre-teen boy runs away from two men and a woman. The men pin him to the ground, the woman speaks to him calmly, and within seconds the boy calms and walks back into the facility with them. A young woman slaps a young man as they are kissing passionately; the young woman is upset, as it appears that she slapped the young man as a reflex and did not mean to harm him. A young woman approaches a sleeping man while holding a bat. It is implied she is about to strike him when a teen girl makes a remark to her; we then see them sitting outside (sleeping man unharmed). The young girl takes the bat and smashes two car windows; the young woman takes the bat from the teen girl and bashes in the windshield. A young woman smashes a lamp on the ground. A young woman tearfully tells a teen girl the latter had been physically and sexually abused by her father, including being impregnated by him; the teen girl then shows the young woman bruises on her upper thigh. A teen boy raps a song that has lyrics about his mother beating him and forcing him to sell drugs for her. A young woman shows a teen girl a large patch of scars on her ankle as she tells her that she had cut herself. A young woman tells someone that a teen girl must keep her door open, since she has self-mutilated before. A teen boy asks a young woman if he has scars and lumps on his head; the young woman says no and the boy begins to cry, saying that his mother used to hit him on the head regularly. A young man talks about how he followed a teen boy that left a foster care facility, and defecated on himself in front of the teen boy -- who laughed as he saw feces running down his leg.
profanity 7.8/10 About 48 F-words and its derivatives, 7 sexual references, 22 scatological terms (4 mild), 11 anatomical terms, 25 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory racial term, 1 religious profanity (GD) and 2 religious exclamations (God). We hear non-translated Spanish profanity.
alcohol 5/10 A young woman finds a marijuana joint and baggie of what appears to be loose marijuana in a teen boy's room. A young woman advises a teen boy that he could be "sent to juvie" for possession of a drug. A teen boy raps song lyrics about his mother forcing him to sell drugs as a young child. A teen girl tells a young woman to ask a doctor for a prescription to help her sleep. A young woman places a tray with small cups on it (implied to have prescription drugs in them) in front of a pre-teen boy. We see a young woman sorting pills from a prescription bottle into a small cup for dispensing. On multiple occasions in the film, we see a young man smoking a cigarette.
frightening 5/10 One of the main characters is a teenage girl who has an abusive father. A teenage girl has a weekend pass to see her father and there is are tense scenes involving the girl, although no actual violence in shown. There are a few very tense scenes in which a teenager is having extreme emotional distress and needs to be physically subdued in order to keep them safe. 27.8/50 15+

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