John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
| nudity | bare breasted women are seen dancing in the background of a club At least 3 topless women in a bar shown for long extended scene (lasts 2minutes 15 seconds) wearing nothing but a tiny g-string showing butt nudity as well. More than brief nudity. |
| violence | Rated R for Violence, Language, and Drug Use a disturbing and violent sequence in vietnam opens the movie (a man is seen with a bloody bandage aroudn his head during this) 2 thugs break in to marge's home, ray quickly disarms them and ties them up john is roughed-up/tortured by the above thugs (he has blood on his mouth from this) one of the thugs shoots and kills a donkey for fun (no blood) ray gets shot in the chest (blood spurts), he then shoots his attacker (more blood) ray's clothes are bloody from his wounds |
| profanity | 46 "f" words and other language throughout |
| alcohol | the entire movie deals with drugs a bag of heroin is seen on a table marge pops pills throughout the film ray cuts cocaine for marge which she inhales (used to calm her) john dumps heroin out of a bag, a corrupt cop tries to scoop it up later eddie injects himself with heroin, he then injects a woman in her tush ray injects himself with heroin to ease the pain from his gunshot wounds marge snorts coke |
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