There are a few police raids involving a mother and her five children. There is a lot of screaming, body restraining, and crying. A teenage girl runs alongside a car that her younger brother was put into, and she is visibly upset.
Two teenage girls are put in juvenile hall after their mother is arrested. They are verbally taunted by the other girls there, and it erupts into a fist fight.
A mother pushes her sons out of the way as she leaves the house. This can be disturbing to watch, even though it is brief.
Anne Heche's character behaves erratically as a result of her drinking and drug use. She sometimes yells and screams at her children.
In a scene where a teenage girl and her 7-year-old brother are out buying milk, they are just about to get in their car when there is a drive-by shooting. We see guns being fired many times. The girl and her brother get down under their car until it is over. They are not hurt, but their car windows are smashed, and there is glass everywhere.
A 17-year-old girl decides to seek emancipation from her mother and attempt to get legal guardianship of her three younger brothers. The mother gets very upset when she finds out. She screams, pushes her daughter, calls her a bitch, and even grabs her around the neck and wrestles her to the ground. The daughter tells her she'll call the cops if she doesn't get out, so the mother leaves.The grandmother and younger brothers are all watching this unfold, and the grandmother is crying hysterically. (Nobody is injured.)