The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for brutal violence including a rape, some strong sexual content, nudity and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • The opening includes flashbacks to a rape. No nudity but thrusting and screaming are shown.
  • Early in the film a woman gets out of bed nude, her back and butt visible.
  • A man and woman lay in bed together with their upper bodies uncovered. The woman's breasts are covered.
  • Two women passionately kiss and undress. Full frontal nudity is shown for a moment, oral sex portrayed, and extended female nudity afterwards as the characters chat.
  • A man is shown having bondage sex with a girl in two scenes. Bare breasts and butts are visible but no full frontal nudity.
  • A man and woman have sex and there is some nudity. The woman hands are tied and it is implied she is a prostitute being force to have sex. Her breasts are seen.
  • The overall theme of the film deals with prostitution and human trafficking.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman holds a man at gunpoint.
  • Three people are shot to death offscreen. Blood and brain matter is shown splattered on nearby objects and blood is shown pooled under their corpses.
  • A woman tases a man in the neck and hangs him with a rope. She threatens to kill him is he doesn't answer her questions.
  • A man gets in a fight with a woman and knocks her out. He then fights another man and knocks him out. There is minor blood.
  • A man leaves the building and sets it on fire, however the two people inside escape.
  • A woman shoots another man in the foot. No blood.
  • A woman forces a man at gunpoint to leave his computer can get into a locker.
  • A man watches a DVD of a young woman getting raped. Much of it is offscreen but we get one particularly disturbing image.
  • A man is doused in gas by a teen girl and is lit on fire.
  • A woman is punched to the ground by a man; she tases him in the crotch, but no effect. She is then knocked out.
  • A woman is shot several times, once in the head.
  • A woman, covered in blood, strikes a man with an axe a few times (he survives). She then shoots at a man several times but doesn't hit him.

Profanity

  • The 'f' word is used at least 4 times.
  • The 's' word is used several times.
  • B*tch is said.
  • C*nt is said.
  • D*mn is said.
  • Christ and God are said.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The lead character smokes is many scenes through the the film.
  • Unspecified drugs are shown for distribution.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Several, especially near the end, more so than in the first film.
  • Lisbeth has nightmares of her horrifying rape from the first film.
  • In a flashback from the first film, a man is doused with gasoline and set on fire.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Lisbeth fights and tries to kill a man who, as it turns out, is her own abusive father, whom she assumed was dead. But she is also beaten to a bloody pulp.
  • Another man is literally invulnerable to pain because of a strange genetic condition; therefore nothing that anyone can do to him will disturb him and he can inflict tortuous pain on others with no fear.

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