• Director(s)

    James Foley

  • Production Year

    1986

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    116m

  • Cast

    Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson

Film

At Close Range

sexual violence, language, violence, injury detail, drug misuse, nudity

AT CLOSE RANGE is a US crime drama, from 1986, in which a small-town teenager hoping to make a better life reunites with his career criminal father and joins his gang of thieves, only to find his ambitions have a heavy cost.…

AT CLOSE RANGE is a US crime drama, from 1986, in which a small-town teenager hoping to make a better life reunites with his career criminal father and joins his gang of thieves, only to find his ambitions have a heavy cost.

violence
There are bloody shootings, some of which occur in close-up and slow motion. A character's head is held under water in an effort to drown him. A man roughly grabs his stepson and shoves him to the ground.
language
There is infrequent very strong language (‘c**t’), strong language ('motherf**ker', ‘f**k’) and milder terms which include 'pussy', ‘son of a bitch’, ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘asshole’, ‘bastard’, ‘God’, ‘damn’, ‘Jesus’, 'Christ' and 'hell'. There is a non-directed use of the discriminatory term ‘faggot’.
drugs
Characters, many of them teenagers, smoke and share marijuana joints and several take unspecified pills.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A prolonged, escalating sequence of sexual threat occurs when a 16-year-old girl becomes trapped in a room with a hostile older man. This scene develops into one of of sexual violence, but, while harrowing, visual detail is limited and we cut away from the attack in its early stages. Men tell a teenage girl she should expect prison convicts to ogle her when she visits her boyfriend in jail.
injury detail
Bullet wounds as well as blood over clothing and bodies are seen in close up detail in the aftermath of violence. A man picks birdshot from his bleeding face with tweezers and later tattoos himself, resulting in sight of blood.
nudity
During a strip club performance there is brief sight of sexualised breast nudity.
additional issues
There are scenes of intense gun threat and moments in which characters are intimidated or threatened with death by others. Characters kiss and it is implied that a couple has sex off-screen.

  • Director(s)

    James Foley

  • Production Year

    1986

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    116m

  • Cast

    Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

sexual violence, language, violence, injury detail, drug misuse, nudity
Classified Date:
04/11/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Arrow Film Distributors Ltd
Cuts:
This work required compulsory cuts. Cuts were made to a sequence of animal cruelty depicting a cockfight. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, policy, and the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937, which is applied under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984.
violence
There are bloody shootings, some of which occur in close-up and slow motion. A character's head is held under water in an effort to drown him. A man roughly grabs his stepson and shoves him to the ground.
language
There is infrequent very strong language (‘c**t’), strong language ('motherf**ker', ‘f**k’) and milder terms which include 'pussy', ‘son of a bitch’, ‘dick’, ‘shit’, ‘ass’, ‘asshole’, ‘bastard’, ‘God’, ‘damn’, ‘Jesus’, 'Christ' and 'hell'. There is a non-directed use of the discriminatory term ‘faggot’.
drugs
Characters, many of them teenagers, smoke and share marijuana joints and several take unspecified pills.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A prolonged, escalating sequence of sexual threat occurs when a 16-year-old girl becomes trapped in a room with a hostile older man. This scene develops into one of of sexual violence, but, while harrowing, visual detail is limited and we cut away from the attack in its early stages. Men tell a teenage girl she should expect prison convicts to ogle her when she visits her boyfriend in jail.
injury detail
Bullet wounds as well as blood over clothing and bodies are seen in close up detail in the aftermath of violence. A man picks birdshot from his bleeding face with tweezers and later tattoos himself, resulting in sight of blood.
nudity
During a strip club performance there is brief sight of sexualised breast nudity.
additional issues
There are scenes of intense gun threat and moments in which characters are intimidated or threatened with death by others. Characters kiss and it is implied that a couple has sex off-screen.

  • Classified date

    04/11/2024

  • Language

    English