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In Hunting Grounds, a hard MA 15+ crime thriller, a mother flees a mafia-tied husband and shelters with a drifter who may be worse than the men chasing her. Strong language runs nonstop, and the violence includes shootouts plus ugly injury detail such as a log-splitter death. Two kids are caught in that chase. Older teens and adults who already handle brutal thriller violence are the fit here.
Story (may spoil tone)
Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the biggest enemy of them all.
Details
Violence Guns and kill talk follow a mother through the woods as mafia henchmen…
Guns and kill talk follow a mother through the woods as mafia henchmen close in. Her cabin refuge turns into beatings and shootouts. That crime-thriller brutality keeps hitting across those stretches
Language Arguments and chase scenes are loaded with the f-word, plus the s-word,…
Arguments and chase scenes are loaded with the f-word, plus the s-word, b-word, g-word, hell, and b-word phrase. The swearing barely pauses once the chase is on
Drugs / alcohol Someone drops the odd alcohol or smoking line around the chase and cabi…
Someone drops the odd alcohol or smoking line around the chase and cabin scenes. Those mentions stay light. The plot never turns toward substance use
Frightening Safety never sticks for a mother fleeing a violent crime family, and th…
Safety never sticks for a mother fleeing a violent crime family, and the cabin helper becomes another threat. Woods pursuit and close-quarters menace keep the tension high for most of the runtime
Child peril / abuse While mafia men hunt the family, two kids stay with their mum as adults…
While mafia men hunt the family, two kids stay with their mum as adults swear and fight around them. The children are in real jeopardy on screen. The ugliest violence still hits the adults
Bullying / discrimination We did not see bullying in this one
We did not see bullying in this one
Gore / death / weapons Clear injury detail lands on deaths: shootings, a burning assault with…
Clear injury detail lands on deaths: shootings, a burning assault with a hot metal pot, and a head forced through a log splitter. Blood and corpses show up in those beats
Dangerous behaviour We did not see dangerous behavior in this one
We did not see dangerous behavior in this one
Eating disorders / body image We did not see eating in this one
We did not see eating in this one
Mental health We did not see mental health in this one
We did not see mental health in this one
Gambling We did not see gambling in this one
We did not see gambling in this one
Grief / bereavement We did not see grief in this one
We did not see grief in this one
Flashing lights We have not confirmed whether this version contains flashing lights.
We have not confirmed whether this version contains flashing lights.
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- Protecting children drives the escape. What choices would you make under threat?
- Safe houses can hide new dangers. How does the film twist refuge?
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