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Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...
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Dove Review

Death and revenge. These are two words which descriptively explain at least part of the plot of this movie. The film opens in France, a German-occupied France, and Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) sees the graphic murder of her family by Colonel Hans Landa (Christopher Waltz), a Nazi. She escapes with her own life intact but can’t get the images out of her mind.

Brad Pitt plays Lt. Aldo Raine and he organizes a group of soldiers to fight the enemy and the enemy recognizes them as the “Basterds”; hence the name of the group and the film. As the various Allied Forces fight, Shosanna plots her own course of revenge.

This film features some outstanding and realistic acting from Brad Pitt and also Melanie Laurent as well as others. The story is grounded in reality and focuses on the graphic nature of war and the consequences, namely suffering and death. Sadly, it is too strong in the violence arena and in the language content, as well as the drugs and sex category, for us to be able to award this movie our Dove “Family-Approved” Seal. This is not a family-friendly picture.

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A lot of violence with blood and graphic moments; the graphic scalping of two dead Nazis; a girl is seen with blood on her after escaping the murder of her family; a guard's throat is cut and is graphic; many people are shot and killed; an officer's head is repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat; stabbings; a string is used on someone's neck to try to choke the character to death; a needle is stuck into a woman's leg; corpses are seen.

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Sex

Woman, while wearing clothes, is slapped on the behind; a couple is seen moving while having sex and we hear sexual sounds but there is no nudity; a couple of comments and innuendos.

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Language

GD-7; G/OMG-1; F-20; S-9; A-6; D-6; H-3; SOB-2; Slang for male genitalia-1

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Violence

A lot of violence with blood and graphic moments; the graphic scalping of two dead Nazis; a girl is seen with blood on her after escaping the murder of her family; a guard's throat is cut and is graphic; many people are shot and killed; an officer's head is repeatedly beaten with a baseball bat; stabbings; a string is used on someone's neck to try to choke the character to death; a needle is stuck into a woman's leg; corpses are seen.

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Drugs

A character uses snuff a lot; smoking of cigarettes and cigars; several drinking scenes; the talk of using morphine on a character in pain.

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Nudity

Cleavage.

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Other

Some comments which might upset Jews as a reference to "Jew dogs" is used; talk of the use of Apache tactics to kill Nazis; the word "injun" is used; disrespectful attitudes; the loss of friends and the topic of dealing with death.

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