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Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Chuck Connors, Richard Fleischer, Paula Kelly, Brock Peters, Walter Seltzer, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Russell Thacher in Soylent Green (1973)

Parents guide

Soylent Green

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Mild

Sex & Nudity

Mild
29 of 50 found this mild
A drawn out scene where a man and women take their clothes off, getting into bed while having a conversation. Eventually the scene ends when the couple stop having a conversation and start kissing in bed.
Man and woman take a shower together and embrace. they are obscured by a curtain.
Nipples are clearly seen through the garment of a young girl being baptized.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
11 of 24 found this moderate
Multiple women are hit by a man, one of them cries for the rest of the scene.
A man hits another man with a metal crowbar in the back of the head (the actual hitting is not seen) killing him.
A woman is shot in the head at close range (obscured and not gory).
A mob riots and large trucks with scoops gather up people.
Two bystanders are carelessly shot in attempts to kill a man.
A man is shot in the leg.
A man is crushed by a large bulldozer scoop (the crushing is shown, but the body is obscured and not gory. Later, his legs are shown sticking out from under the bulldozer scoop, surrounded by a pool of blood).
A man undergoes assisted suicide.
Two characters fall a long distance.
Men shoot at each other with handguns, one is killed, one is wounded, blood is shown.

Profanity

Mild
11 of 21 found this mild
Bastard and bitch are used infrequently alongside lesser profanity.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
15 of 18 found this mild
Alcohol and tobacco use.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Mild
14 of 23 found this mild

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 16DVD rating
    • 14original rating
  • Australia
    • M
  • Brazil
    • 14
  • Canada
    • PG
  • Chile
    • TE
  • Ecuador
    • 18self-applied
  • Finland
    • K-16
  • France
    • Tous publicsnew rating
    • 13original rating
  • Iceland
    • 16
  • India
    • U
  • Ireland
    • 15
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G
    • G2024, re-release
  • Mexico
    • B15
  • Netherlands
    • 12
  • New Zealand
    • PG
  • Nigeria
    • G
  • Norway
    • 16original rating
    • 15re-rating
  • Poland
    • 7self-applied
  • Singapore
    • PG
  • South Korea
    • 15
  • Spain
    • 18original rating
    • 182003, re-rating
    • A1987, re-rating
  • Sweden
    • 15
  • United Kingdom
    • 15
    • AAoriginal rating, cut
    • 151986, re-rating
  • United States
    • TV-MATV rating
    • PGcertificate #23501
    • TV-14edited TV version
  • West Germany
    • 16f

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