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Parental Guidance(Parental Guidance) Coarse Language

Synopsis

Arabic-language Drama. A documentary filmmaker (Khalid Abdalla) in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of cursing
  • Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence in civil unrest context - some blood, no detail
  • Frequent references to injury and death in war and civil unrest contexts - little detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of smoking and alcohol use in a recreational context - no detail

Thematic elements

  • Coping with trauma
  • Perspectives on the Middle East
  • Living versus experiencing

Classification rationale

Rated PG for coarse language and violence

Classification date

September 14, 2017

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