THE RESPONDER

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Strong themes, drug references and coarse language

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The film is a police procedural series set in Liverpool, and follows a police frontline responder, Chris Carson, who deals nightly with the pressures of crime, violence and addiction on the beat, whilst battling his own personal demons that threaten to destabilise his work, marriage and mental health.

Themes

The film contains themes of crime, corruption, drug dealing and domestic abuse.

Violence

The film contains violence with some blood detail occasionally viewed. A man is stabbed with a knife in the belly, a woman hits a man with a piece of timber with a nail protruding from it, and there are scenes of fist fights and physical altercations.

Sex

A woman asks another woman if she is "f**king" her husband. A man admits he pays young men to "wank him off".

Language

The film contains frequent and occasionally aggressive use of the word "fuck" as well as "shit", "bastard" "whore", "prick" and "twat".

Drug use

The film contains several decoctions of cocaine use, as well as frequent depictions of bags of drugs and verbal refences to drug use and effects.

Nudity

A man's buttocks are viewed briefly as he strips off at the doctor's.

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Classification date

23 March 2022

Year of production

2022

Classification

MA 15+

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Strong themes, drug references and coarse language

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