The main character's childhood as the son of a prostitute is discussed.

Looking at a boy who has been abducted while in his underwear, a man comments disparagingly on the size of his genitals. Later, another man learns of the first conversation, and suggests the boy show him. After a moment, the child pulls down his shorts (offscreen), and the man reassures him that he is a good size for his age, which makes the boy smile in relief. The scene is not intended to be sexual in nature.

After she suggestively sucks on a pickle slice, a man and a woman make out heavily and almost have sex (no nudity, but the woman displays significant cleavage). A small boy witnesses their activity, and they stop when they see him.

A little sexual discussion.

A sadistic man pursues a child, intending to harm him; it might be interpreted that he intends to molest the boy, but the child gets away before anything happens.

A woman is assaulted in her home by a man who breaks through the back screen door. A neighbor enters with a shotgun, and as her three small children watch, there is a standoff between the neighbor and the two invading men, one of whom grabs a boy as a hostage.

A man is attacked by two convicts as they escape from prison.

Three boys throw water balloons at a house on Halloween to tease a boy who isn't allowed to go trick or treating.

A boy aggressively bites two men who are trying to prevent his escape.

A man is hit.

The main character displays a gun to several people who he suspects may try to hinder his escape or deny his requests.

A boy is hit in two different scenes.

A man ties up three people, including a small boy, and points a gun at one of their heads.

A man is hit and kicked in the groin.

Two men are killed offscreen (in one case, a gunshot is heard). We later see the bodies, and they are somewhat bloody, with bullet holes in their heads.

A man is shot in the gut and bleeds significantly and for a while.

A man is shot to death by a rifle bullet to the chest(Some blood).

Some minor car accidents involving police cars that cause wrecks but no injuries or death (one is almost comical in its depiction).

Some gunshots that damage property but don't hurt people.

A man makes an off-color remark about a female frog's genitals.

There are several uses of the S word. One F word. A few uses of "ass". Some slang terms for male genitals ("pecker" and "dick"). Some uses of damn, hell, sonofabitch, and goddamn. Various utterances of "Jesus" and "Christ".

A man mentions that his previous secretary was a heavy drinker.

The main character smokes cigarettes; the film is set in 1962.

There are multiple scenes in which a small boy is holding a gun, pointing it at people in fear or while guarding them. Sometimes he is calm, but on other occasions he is very upset by the situation.

The earlier suicide by the main character's mother when he was a pre-teenager is mentioned.

A small boy rides excitedly on top of a car as it is driven down a rural highway; this is depicted in an exhilarating and non-dangerous way.

A boy shoplifts a Halloween costume from a store, and jumps into the window of a car before it speeds off.

A small boy assists in the theft of a car, and witnesses the theft of another.

A boy is upset during a conversation about his father, who apparently abandoned the family a few years earlier.

A boy is sitting in a parked car when he accidentally shifts gears, and the car careens down a road and through a field as he tries to get the car to stop while lying on the floor.

The scene were the people are tied up is very intense.

There are other intense scenes especially one involving home invasion and kidnapping.