Short Term 12 (2013) Poster

(2013)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language and brief sexuality
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • 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.
  • Grace and Mason discuss that they didn't have sex for a long time. Grace then kisses him passionately while lying down on the couch with Mason on top. She then sticks Mason's hand down her crotch (both fully clothed) while he starts to stimulate her (his hand can be seen moving). After a while, Grace slaps him away before she can climax.
  • 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 & Gore

  • Grace slaps Mason away while having sex. He is later shown washing off blood from his nose (a little blood is seen in tissue papers)
  • 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.
  • A young woman smashes a lamp on the ground.
  • 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 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.

Profanity

  • About 40 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).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • 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 & Intense Scenes

  • The scene where Grace approaches to kill Jayden's father in his sleep with a baseball bat is somewhat intense and terrifying.
  • One of the main characters is a teenage girl who has an abusive father.
  • 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.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • Grace tells Jayden that she was sexually abused by her father in her childhood.
  • A character briefly discusses sexual abuse she had suffered in the past.

Violence & Gore

  • 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 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 young woman shows a teen girl a large patch of scars on her ankle as she tells her that she had cut herself.

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