Taxi Driver

17+Common Sense Media calls it age 17+ and extremely violent with lots of sex and language; Movieguide rates it -4 family content to be avoided for pagan worldview and gross immorality; ParentPreviews notes R rating with frequent sexual expletives and gun violence.[1][2][3]

• Sex & nudity: Lead character frequents pornographic movie theaters; crude verbal references to sexual activity; very strong sex references and child prostitution theme; man visits adult cinema showing pornographic movies; brief but extreme prostitution content.[1][2][3]
• Violence: Climactic blood-drenched apartment gun battle; characters shot in the face, neck, head; knife stabbed through hand; gunshot to head shows brain matter; brief but extreme violence including point blank murders with bloodshed.[1][2][3]
• Language: Constant profanity including f--k and N word; various racial and homophobic slurs; single use of very strong language (c**t); multiple uses of strong language (f**k); 38 obscenities & 12 profanities.[1][2][3]
• Drugs & alcohol: Lead character often shown taking pills presumed to be amphetamines; drug use implied; alcohol use.[1][2]
• Frightening & intense: Frighteningly plausible case history of a disturbed loner; mental breakdown of alienated young man.[1][2]

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