Last Summer

Deniz jumps off a cliff into water, cuts his foot on a rock, and bleeds. The wound reopens repeatedly and takes most of the summer to heal. Older boys tease a younger teen, pushing him under water in the pool, then throw a girl in the water. A boy is teased for his past weight problem. A girl jokes about "cutting" herself when she doesn't get into the college of her choice. Burak turns his car lights off on a road at night, causing several near accidents and scaring his passengers. He talks about his parents dying in a car accident on the same road. Burak and Deniz have a fist fight that results in a bloody face and a sore hand.

Teens kiss and make out, discussing sex and people's virginity. They talk about "humping," doing "the deed," "hooking up." Deniz regularly stares at Asli's bikini-clad body. Two people appear to have sex on a beach (we see her topless on top of the man), and another couple is caught rolling around together, clothed, on a blanket behind some bushes. A sister walks in on her brother changing clothes and they joke about what she has and hasn't seen before.

"F--k," "f--king," "mother--ker," "s--t," "a--hole," "smartass," "son of a bitch," "damn," "hell," "moron," "idiot," "losers," "stupid," "brat," "pee," "dear God." The film was reviewed in the original Turkish with English subtitles.

Teens smoke cigarettes and joints and drink heavily -- beer, alcohol, shots, and cocktails. They get drunk regularly, stay out too late, and drive after drinking. There's talk of past alcohol use and of "being high."

Parents need to know that Last Summer (Gecen Yaz) is a Turkish coming-of-age film that offers a portrayal of teens free of any responsibilities in summer and spending their time playing, swimming, flirting, and partying. This includes a lot of heavy drinking, some smoking and getting high, and some experimentation and discussion of sex, though there's also a sense of innocence and discovery. A younger teen has a crush on an older teen and tries to impress her, sometimes in ways that could be detrimental to his own well-being, such as drinking too much, smoking, and jumping off a cliff into the sea. He gashes his foot on a rock and gets a deep wound that bleeds and bothers him for days afterwards. Some of the older teens appear to be having sex, and one whose parents died in a car crash scares the passengers in his car by turning his headlights off on a road and nearly getting hit by other cars. Two boys engage in a bloody fist fight. Teens also drink and drive. They kiss and make out and discuss sex and who is a virgin or not. There's talk of "humping," doing "the deed," and "hooking up." Two people appear to have sex on a beach (we see her topless on top of the man), and another couple is caught rolling around together, clothed, on a blanket behind some bushes. A sister walks in on her brother changing clothes and they joke about what she has and hasn't seen before. Language in the English subtitles "f--k," "f--king," "mother--ker," "s--t," "a--hole," "smartass," "son of a bitch," "damn," "hell," "moron," "idiot," "losers," "stupid," "brat," "pee," and "dear God."

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