When James returns to his father's house, while sitting in in his room, he is shown hearing his father and new wife having sex. Heavy breathing and a light moan, and his wife repeats his name a few times as she moans.

James makes out with a woman for about 5-8 seconds.

James kisses a man forcefully.

James is briefly seen kissing a girl in bed; it's implied they are both nude, but nudity is not shown.

The girl James says he is in love with is 16, and as this takes place in 1951, that makes Dean 19 or 20.

James Dean takes provocative photos of his girlfriend.

After a somewhat physical fight, Pier and James are implied to have sex. He tells her to open her mouth and moves her leg in a suggestive manner.

Dean's manager makes slightly inappropriate comments about 17-year old Natalie Wood.

James Dean is seen fully nude, from behind only, at a distance, for 2 seconds.

A brief scuffle happens when Dean freaks out during an improvisation class. He wrestles with another student and is put up against the wall while trying to be calmed down.

James pulls a knife on a director and holds it against his neck.

Pier slaps Dean. Dean proceeds to slap her harder. The scene is quick.

Dean starts to choke a man, for real, on a movie set instead of acting the action in a scene.

4 uses of damn, 3 of hell, 4 of ass, 1 of crap, two of son of a bitch, and 1 of dick.

James Dean and other characters are shown smoking.

James chugs a beer briefly because he is nervous before an audition.

James actually gets drunk for one of his scenes in a movie.

Dean's mother is implied to have been hit by her husband.