The Thin Red Line (1998) Poster

Parents Guide

Add to guide
Showing all 20 items

Certification

Edit
MPAA Rated R for realistic war violence and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Native women's breasts seen at points, non-sexual and brief.
  • native girls and boys are naked in a pond (only bare butts)at the start of the movie , some soldiers bath in their underwear and some naked(only bare butts)
  • At 1.24 man fondles his wife's clothed breasts.
  • There is a flashback scene where a woman is naked laying in a tub. you see her naked back and side
  • Lots of sexual comments cracked off by soldiers.
  • Mild innuendos.

Violence & Gore

  • Men are shot, and blood sprays out of the wounds. We see bloody bullet holes. A few times blood splatters onto the camera lens. Lots of explosions from artillery and mortars, and soldiers are blown through the air in violent ways. Several soldiers have shrapnel ripped into them from mortars.
  • Early on a gory and graphic scene is depicted when soldiers come across two dead soldiers. One of them has no legs, while the other one's arm and head have sustained severe bloody trauma. This is shown for a while.
  • Men are bayonetted very graphically, blood splatters out of wounds, a man blows himself up with a grenade offscreen.
  • A man is shot in the chest, blood is seen spurting out his back.
  • In one scene, American soldiers overwhelm a Japanese position in a village. We see several Japanese corpses, many of them bloody, and vultures are seen flying overhead.

Profanity

  • 13 uses of "fuck," 23 uses of "Goddamn," 15 uses of "hell," 7 uses of "shit," 4 uses of "ass," 4 uses of "son of a bitch," 3 uses of "damn," 2 uses of "Jesus," and 1 use each of "oh Jesus," "Jesus Christ" and "bitching."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some characters smoke; they all at one point halfway through the film with a bottle of booze in hand.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The entire film is very intense, disturbing, and emotional.
  • Dead bodies or dying soldiers are seen.
  • A man taunts a dying man.

Spoilers

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

Violence & Gore

  • A soldier screams on the ground while holding his extremely bloody torso. A buddy tries to help him and gives him morphine, but it's implied that the soldier died. This scene is disturbing and bloody, and happens in the middle of a big battle scene.
  • A soldier accidentally blows up his rear end with a grenade. No blood, but he screams in pain and slowly dies. Very disturbing.
  • An angry soldier shoots two Japanese in anger. Bloodless but disturbing.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A married woman writes to her husband, who is off fighting the war, that she has found another man. He is devastated by the news.

See also

Taglines | Plot Summary | Synopsis | Plot Keywords


Recently Viewed