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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDbs Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Deer Hunter can be found at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/parentalguide.

The hunting scenes were filmed in Washington's Cascade Mountains, far from Pennsylvania.

Yes, but it is likely they were either a) committed by people already suicidal, but who selected their method based on the movie, or b) people who thought it was a cool idea to play Russian Roulette. In 1981, 28 incidents were attributed to the movie; in 1989, 35.

Nick is the father of Angela's baby