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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for war-related images and brief language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • One sailor imitates male felacio with a chicken bone in a teasing/mocking manner. Not in the first scene where two of the sailors are behind bars and one of them brings another some chicken to eat, but the second scene. Afterwards one of them says, "you suck on that like you've done that before!"
  • While they are stranded on a raft one sailors says "he is telling me a story that makes this old sailor blush. " someone tells him to finish it and the sailor says "she says, I will give you all the love this life has to offer. And with that she spread herself beneath him guiding him home. "
  • The film contains a very brief scene at a strip club where a woman opens her jacket to expose her breasts with pasties barely covering her nipples at 12:05.

Violence & Gore

  • A mild fight between two sailors happens after they go to a club. Mild racial slurs are said. Some blood.
  • The film contains some scenes which show the graphic injuries the crew sustain when the ship sank.
  • One of the stronger scenes shows a man floating in a raft, cradling his own severed leg with some bone and torn tissue visible.
  • Other scenes depict men with severed arms burning as they try to escape the sinking ship.
  • A few brief shots show a man whose arm has been severed, leaving behind a bloody stump.

Profanity

  • God's name is misused.
  • The film contains 3 uses of the expletive "f**k".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Alcohol and smoking appear frequently in the film, both among high-society people and sailors.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Based on a historical event, 'USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage' is a film about how the crew of the USS Indianapolis struggled to survive after their ship gets sunk by a Japanese submarine.
  • During the five days that the crew are stranded in the Philippine Sea, they have to endure extreme conditions, as well as the ever-present threat of attacks by sharks.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Among others, D'Antonio can be seen severely injured at his legs and is later mentioned to have died.

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