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Parental Guidance(Parental Guidance)

Synopsis

Dir: Peter Mettler. Essay Film/Documentary. Filmmaker Peter Mettler makes an audio-visual diary over several years, which includes the aging and death of his parents, as well as several trips to different parts of the world.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of cursing and scatological slang
  • Infrequent depictions of illness, aging, and death - some detail; infrequent depictions of dead animals in a documentary context - some blood, little detail

Thematic elements

  • Diaristic filmmaking
  • Meditations on mortality
  • Perspectives on nature

Classification rationale

Rated PG for coarse language

Classification date

February 13, 2026

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