A woman grabs a man's crotch, they then kiss.

Some sexual references.

A man and woman are making out. The man's shirt comes off but nothing after that as it cuts straight away.

Karen bends down and puts her head near Henry's crotch implying she is about to perform oral sex. She unzips his pants and the scene cuts.

Karen's side nipple is seen twice extremely briefly twice during a scene where her and Henry make out on the bed. Not explicit nor sexual.

In a prison scene, a man is briefly seen receiving oral sex. Blink and you could miss it

Billy Batts makes gay remarks about raping guys in prison.

The "f word" is used frequently through the movie, multiple times in a sexual context.

A woman might have been raped. Only her crying after the events is seen.

As Karen is trying to empty a package of drugs in the toilet, she is frantic and puts the pistol in her skimpy panties, as she is in a robe and bra and panties. She pulls the panties and shoves the gun down there, glimpses of her bush show, but not much really. Somewhat suggestive.

Several scenes of graphic violence, where lots of blood is often shown.

More violent than the Irishman and a little less than casino.

A man with blood all over his torso is running and screaming claiming he's been shot. Some blood is shown dripping everywhere but not too graphic.

There are several instances where people get roughed up by gangsters.

The violence portrayed is quite realistic and portrayed as cold and often gets very brutal.

A man is bashed once on the head with a wine bottle. He has a slightly bloody bandage afterwards.

A frozen corpse is discovered in the back of a meat truck. No blood.

This severity of the violence will be disturbing to some viewers. A lot of it is abrupt.

A man is brutally beaten, thrown in the trunk of a car and presumed dead. Later on he is found to be alive then stabbed and shot numerous times whilst covered in blood. Very graphic and disturbing.

The violence is spread out, but when it happens, it's often graphic, shocking, and very gruesome.

Jimmy and Henry beat up (graphically and brutally) a man who owes them money. They then hold him over the fence of a den of lions, ready (and profanely threatening) to throw him in, if he doesn't give them the money. Graphic and brutal.

Knowing a lot of what's portrayed in this film is based on real events, it goes to show you the horrible nature of the mafia.

Strong bloody brutal violence.

Not as violent as Casino, but still, very brutal violence. 11+ age rating.

A father hits his son twice and whips his back with a belt 5 times. The boy has a somewhat bruised face after.

A man hits another man's face with a gun eleven times. He grunts in pain and blood is seen on his face from a distance.

Two gangsters beat another gangster. One clubs him with a pistol on the head/face offscreen and the other stomps on his head, we see fleeting glances of his boot crunching onto his face. The victim is partly unconscious, although the pistol whipping causes brief blood spray. His face is then seen mostly covered in blood and bruises, and part of his suit is bloodied.

A man is shot in the foot with blood spurts; he winces briefly and a bloody wound is seen for a second.

A man is swiftly killed by six gunshots to the chest with a pistol. Blood appears on his shirt.

A man yips as his face is slammed against a car seat five times, and then punched three times. Blood is visible on his eyes, nose, and mouth. His face is then seen badly bruised in black-and-white for a few seconds. Two men then threaten to feed him to lions at a zoo.

A man and his wife are shown dead in a car with bloody bullet wounds momentarily. Some blood is splattered across the windows.

A man is shot in the head. Tons of blood splatters all over a bed and walls. He is then shot several times more offscreen.

Two corpses are found in a garbage truck with bloody bullet holes in their faces.

The words "ass", "balls", "bastard", "bitch", "bullshit", "cocksucker", "crap", "damn", "dick", "dickhead", "fag", "fuck", "goddamn", "jerkoff", "motherfucker", "nigger", "piss", "prick", "shit", & "whore" are used.

319 uses of the f-word and it's derivatives.

637 curse words overall.

Pervasive strong language.

A plenty of s-words.

Several of the scenes where drugs are being used take place in a kitchen, filled with equipment used to make drugs.

Cocaine is snorted quite a few times. Mostly implied rather than explicit except for scenes in which we see the character's facial reactions.

A major character is addicted to drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and quaaludes, and becomes a drug dealer.

A scene happens where a frantic women empties a package of cocaine into a toilet. You see the powder.

The drug use is pretty strong

Moderate to severe, drugs play a major role in the downfall of some characters.

There is frequent smoking and drinking.

A man beats his son with belt as punishment while the mother tries to stop him.

Several fatal shootings, stabbings, and beatings are shown with visible blood. This is quite frightening.

The final twenty minutes is particularly intense, taking on a distressing tone that noticeably differs from the rest of the film.

The gangsters act pretty twisted/disturbed.

This is a very dark and serious movie.

In one scene a gangster gets tortured/coereced by being dangled over a lion at an exhibit at a zoo.

Rated R for strong bloody brutal violence, pervasive strong language, drug content and some sexual references.

The character of Jimmy Conway is a sociopathic and remorseless criminal, who gets more and more disturbed as the movie goes on.

There are almost no morally good characters in this movie.

There are instances of bloody violence, which can often get graphic.

Joe Pesci's character is a raging psychopath, and scenes involving him can be intense as violence is always a possibility.