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Pawn Shop Chronicles

Pawn Shop Chronicles

Common Sense Media Age 18

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Characters usually come to a bad end after behaving badly. But the worst offender -- a pervert with his own sexual slavery ring -- gets away in the end. There's a discussion about a white supremacist group, and there's a general air of all things devilish and hellish.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
In the movie's second segment, a character's sexual slavery ring is uncovered. He keeps more than a dozen naked women in cages, covered in filth. The man who discovers this tortures him with fishhooks in his face and a hammer to the teeth. Other parts of the movie include scenes in which a character is run over by a truck, leaving him bloodied and gurgling blood from his throat. Characters also fire guns at each other during a hold-up. There's a lethal stabbing, an arrow through the chest, and a huge explosion. Characters fight with one another, using baseball bats, bricks, frying pans, fists, and feet. This is all played for laughs.
Sex
The sexual slavery segment features more than a dozen naked women. Breasts and buttocks are shown in close-up, and other parts of the body are shown in long-shot. In a video shown on a big screen TV, three women have sex with a man, while the man watches and masturbates (off camera, making jerking motions with his shoulders). Some innuendo.
Language
Language is very strong and nearly constant, especially in the first segment. Words include "f--k," "motherf----r," "s--t," "p---y," "c---sucker," the "N" word, "dumbass," "damn," "nuts," "pissed," "hell," "bastard," "retard," "balls," "Jesus Christ," and "God" (as exclamations).
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
One of the segments is about two meth addicts who are so broke and strung out that they attempt to rob their dealer to get more. A man is shown snorting something, and both characters are shown to be under the influence (viewers see close-ups of their pupils dilating). Drugs are also referenced in dialogue, and the meth lab is shown.
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