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“Back to Black” revolves around the life and music of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, from her rise to fame, her tumultuous love relationship to her untimely death. The film is rated M18 with the consumer advice of “Sexual Scene and Some Drug Use”. The film contains a sexual scene where a man is positioned between the legs of a woman with her upper body nudity seen as he moves down her body. This is contained under the M18 Classification Guidelines which allow “depictions of sexual activity without strong details”. In addition, there are some scenes of nudity including one of a naked couple under water with intermittent shots of the woman’s bare breasts. The film also contains some depictions of drug use. These include a scene where a man is sniffing drug and another scene where a woman is inhaling drug via a drug apparatus. The film contains moderate use of the expletive “f**k” and infrequent use of the word “c**t”.