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"DON'T BREATHE"
(2016) (Jane Levy, Stephen Lang) (R)


At-A-Glace Content Summary

Alcohol/Drugs Heavy
Blood/Gross Stuff Extreme
Disrespectful/Bad Attitude Extreme
Frightening/Tense Scenes Extreme
Gun/Weapons Extreme
Imitative Behavior Heavy
Jump Scenes Heavy
Music (Scary/Tense) Extreme
Music (Inappropriate) None
Profanity Extreme
Sex/Nudity Heavy
Smoking Mild
Tense Family Scenes Heavy
Topics to Talk About Heavy
Violence Extreme


QUICK TAKE:
Suspense/Thriller: Three young burglars get more than they bargained for when they break into a blind man's home in a deserted Detroit neighborhood hoping to steal a large sum of cash from him.
PLOT:
Rocky (JANE LEVY), Alex (DYLAN MINNETTE) and Money (DANIEL ZOVATTO) are three friends who are desperate to get out of the poverty and dead-end nature of their bleak Detroit lives. Rocky, in particular, wants to move to California with her younger sister in order to get away from their abusive mother, with Money definitely going too and Alex being on the fence about joining them. In hopes of making some escape money, the three have been burglarizing homes protected by security systems installed by Alex's dad, meaning he knows how to deactivate the alarms and allow them easy entry and getaways.

Their latest and potentially most lucrative robbery is targeting a blind man who lives alone in an otherwise deserted and completely run-down neighborhood. Word is that he's sitting on several hundred thousand dollars in cash stemming from a wrongful death settlement involving his daughter sometime in the past. Knowing they can deactivate the alarm and figuring a blind man wouldn't prove to be much of an obstacle should they have a run-in with him, the three break into the house.

Little do they know, however, that the Blind Man (STEPHEN LANG), a war veteran, is more resourceful than they ever imagined and one-hundred percent determined not to let them rob him. When he ends up locking all of them inside his place, they must contend with trying to avoid the armed and violent man who has no intention of letting any of them out alive.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
Teens into suspense/thriller type movies could be interested.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R
For terror, violence, disturbing content, and language including sexual references.


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