21 Grams

Diversity behind the camera includes Mexican filmmakers Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Arriaga. On-screen, the three main characters include Cristina Peck (played by Naomi Watts, who's White); Paul Rivers, who has disabilities due to his heart condition (Sean Penn, White); and Jack Jordan (Benicio Del Toro, multiracial Latino including Puerto Rican, but the role is White-passing). Other than Cristina, women have flat characterizations, such as being obsessed with getting pregnant, etc. Brief stereotypes: Black teens play basketball in juvenile detention and get into a fight, there's a Latino gardener, and disabilities are portrayed as terminal and/or unwanted (one person uses the term "I am a f--king amputee" to describe how it feels to have their family die).

Characters shoot guns and get shot. An unconscious character lies in a pool of blood as a woman holds him, crying out for help. Two apparent suicide attempts -- one is bloody/gory. Hospital scenes include a main character who's intubated and hooked up to IVs, visible surgery scars, discussions of heart failure and death, etc. A character dies peacefully on-screen. A parent slaps his kids and yells at them. A parent and his children die in a car accident (off-screen, but police cars surround the scene, and a child's shoe is visible); the mom sobs when she hears the news. Scenes of grieving as a mom throws away children's bikes, struggles to enter their old room, etc.

Characters have sex (bare breasts and thrusting visible), kiss, grope, and lie naked in bed together the morning after (bare backs, breasts, and a rear end are visible). Brief scene of an explicit pornographic film plays at a fertility clinic. Discussions of fertility complications, a past abortion, and getting pregnant.

Several uses of "f--k" and "s--t." Characters also say "bulls--t," "bastard," and "pr--k." A disabled man says someone "made [him] feel like a cripple." A character jokingly flips their middle finger.

Main characters frequently smoke cigarettes. They also drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and take pills on-screen. A drunk driving incident kills three people (not depicted, but it's a key plot point).