The Philadelphia Story (1940) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • Passionate kissing and very mild innuendos.
  • A woman implicitly asks if she and a man had sex whilst she was drunk the night before. She's disappointed to find out they didn't.
  • Discussions of a married man's extramarital relationship with a dancer, with the out-of-date implication that women should accept their husband/fathers' affairs as natural.
  • It's implied that one man suspects another of sleeping with his fiancee, but we find out he didn't.
  • It's implied that a divorced husband and wife never consummated the marriage. He calls her virginal and she is embarrassed.

Violence & Gore

  • A man forcefully grabs a woman's face and shoves her to the ground.
  • Gore: None
  • A man punches another man. There are several joking references to wife-beating including a man forcefully pushing a woman to the ground with his hand covering her face.

Profanity

  • 1 use of hell, heck, idiot, coward, stupid, screwy and stinks 2 uses of shut up and darn

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Main characters are seen smoking cigarettes. Many of the main characters are seen drinking excessively, getting drunk, and having hangovers. There's a joking reference to a man switching from liquor to dope.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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