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Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz

Common Sense Media Age 14

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Cruel authoritarianism eventually backfires, with tragic consequences. Sometimes you have to take risks, even when the stakes are as high as your life, when the rewards are worth it.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
A man chops his own fingers off; the bloody hatchet, severed fingers, and large drops of blood are shown, along with another picking up the fingers and putting them in a box. Past incident told about slicing one's own tendon to get out of solitary confinement. Two fistfights show punching, kicking, and threatening with a knife; one ends in gunfire from guards overhead. A man in solitary is shown being sprayed with a fire hose from a few feet away.
Sex
An inmate threatens and intimidates another with sexual overtones. Nude males seen two or three times from behind with medium-to-close shots, including buttocks. One communal shower scene with incidental frontal nudity very briefly, from a distance, and off to the side.
Language
The "N" word four times. Infrequent swearing: "s--t," "a--hole," "ass," "goddamn."
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Sniffing glue mentioned once.
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