Maintaining integrity is important if you want to be true to yourself. It's possible to forgive terrible behavior, but probably not advisable to forget it. Many of us are products of our environments and cannot shake bad habits we’ve developed.

A father with a temper and alcohol issues taunts and hits his young son, supposedly to make him a tougher competitor, but it closes the boy's heart to the dad. A man with impulse control issues violently pushes his wife away as she tries to protect their child and she's accidentally killed. A gun is pointed at a prisoner. A man punches strangers he doesn't like. A woman is beaten by her pimp.

Men and women have sex. Breasts are shown. Sex is discussed using graphic language. A man has a relationship with a prostitute. Prostitutes are seen on the street soliciting customers in cars. A college provides prostitutes to a top high school basketball pick to entice him to attend that school, and he has sex with them. References are made to homosexuality, particularly in prison. Women are largely portrayed as whores, sex objects, or betrayers. Men are shown as gentle and loyal and women are scheming seductresses with ulterior motives. Condoms, abortions, and STDs are mentioned.

"F--k," "s--t," "ass," "p---y," "d--k," the "N" word, "f-ggot," "scumbag," "ho," "bitch," "balls," and "poontang."

The movie discusses the financial exploitation of student athletes, many of them Black, who make money for institutions and individuals, many of them white-dominated, often without getting much in return.

Drug use -- cocaine, crack, crystal meth -- is discussed and shown in montage. A man accidentally kills someone when he's drunk.