Flesh and Bone

The camera lingers on the uglier aspects of dancing: injured toes (including toenails that fall off), bruised bodies, the bones of dancers starved to skeletal proportions.

Frequent sex scenes with moaning and thrusting; breasts visible. In other scenes, including many in a strip club, bare breasts and backsides (always female) seen at great length. Female dancers refer casually to providing sex for advancement; a young male dancer has sex with his boss (no nudity); many references to prostitution and sex.

Frequent cursing: "f--k," "s--t," "damn." Women are called "bitches" and "c--t." Vulgar references to male and female anatomy, prostitution, oral sex, sex provided for consideration in the ballet company.

Many dancers are addicted to cocaine; we see them buying and snorting it. Scenes take place in bars; characters drink cocktails and champagne at parties.

Parents need to know that Flesh and Bone is a gritty drama about a troubled young dancer who joins a competitive dance troupe in New York City. There's a wide variety of content that's not suited to younger teens, even though they may be interested in dance. Fellow dancers snort cocaine on-screen; they buy drugs and drink wine and cocktails on-screen. There are frequent references to female dancers providing sexual favors (especially oral sex) for advancement in the troupe; a high-ranking dancer has sex with another male dancer on-screen (no nudity), with thrusting and moaning. There's also a lot of nudity, with scenes set in strip clubs and sex scenes with movements and noises and bare female bodies (breasts and backsides). Dancers refer to disordered eating practices frequently, and their bodies are criticized. Members of the troupe are fiercely competitive and say terrible things to and about each other, and they use trickery to get their way.