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Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Michael Wincott, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Danny Huston, and Scarlett Johansson in Hitchcock (2012)

Parents guide

Hitchcock

Content rating

  • Motion Picture Rating (MPA)
    Rated PG-13 for some violent images, sexual content and thematic material

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Mild
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Moderate
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Moderate

Sex & Nudity

Mild
13 of 24 found this mild
A woman sees through a window a man and another woman kissing on the floor of a cabin, he is bare-chested and the woman is wearing a bra and girdle or slip. They stop when they realize they are being watched.
A husband and his wife kiss a few times.
A man and a woman kiss in bed (during a movie shoot); he's bare-chested and she wears a bra and slip that reveal cleavage, bare shoulders and her bare back.
A man and a woman (not his wife) move close together and touch each other's hands as if they are going to kiss (they are interrupted).
A woman kisses man on the cheek.
A man looks through a peephole in his office and we see a woman undressing (we see her wearing a bra that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders). She then removes her bra; topless nudity is implied.
A woman uses a suggestive hand gesture.
A woman in a shower scene in a movie is shown from the upper chest up (we see her bare shoulders and upper chest).
A husband is shown in a bathtub covered to the mid-chest by water while his wife dresses nearby (we see her wearing a bra and slip that reveal her bare abdomen and cleavage and part of her bare leg as she pulls on stockings).
A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders.

Violence & Gore

Mild
15 of 16 found this mild
We see a fire burning in a field and two men with shovels are digging in the area; one man strikes the other man in the head with the shovel and the man fall to the ground as a narrator talks about "brother killing brother" and that the murderer convinced the authorities that the dead man died from smoke asphyxiation.
A man imagines another man climbing into bed with his mother's corpse (we see the woman's face discolored and decayed).
A man imagines another man dragging the dead body of a woman up a flight of stairs (we hear the thumping of the body hitting several stairs and we see blood on the head of the corpse) and then being placed in an empty bathtub; the man then imagines the corpse lunging toward him and he is startled awake.
A man imagines another man crying and running to another room when he hears police sirens blaring.
We see a black-&-white photograph of a corpse, headless and cut in half vertically, as it is passed around a gathering and people, who react with disgust.
A man shaves another man using a straight razor and nicks his neck (we see a spot of blood appear).
On a movie set, a man grabs a knife away from an actor and slashes the blade toward an actress in a shower (in order to demonstrate how he wanted the scene to look); the actress screams and appears genuinely frightened and the man imagines several other people in the actress' place.
A woman screams when she sees a dummy in her dressing room (looking like a dead character in a movie she is filming).
A man collapses on the floor and lies motionless as others try to attend to him.
A man becomes angry and pounds a filter net on top of a swimming pool several times.

Profanity

Mild
16 of 19 found this mild
1 scatological term, 1 anatomical term, 3 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory term for homosexual and 5 religious exclamations.
Name-calling (nut-case, minions, putz, pest, puppy dog, talent-less mommy's boy) and exclamations (bloody.)

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Moderate
8 of 16 found this moderate
A reference is made to sleeping pills (in reference to less than interesting books).
A bottle of alcohol is shown in a bathtub tray while a man sits in the tub (we do not see the man drinking.)
A man drinks alcohol and hides his glass when his wife enters the room.
A woman makes comments to her husband about his weight and drinking too much.
People drink alcohol at a gathering.
A man drinks a martini.
A man smokes a cigar and drinks a brandy.
A man drinks wine.
A man drinks brandy and pours some in a dish for his dogs (we see them drink from the dish).
Janet smokes cigarettes. Incorrectly, Vera does not smoke.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Moderate
8 of 19 found this moderate
Scenes from violence and gore section will be a bit intense for some
The scene with the killer lying with his dead mother and crying when the police come are both unsettling and depressing, and may heavily disturb some viewers.
Some jump scares in Hitchcock's dreams that may startle younger viewers
Pretty rough for a PG-13 rated movie, and scarier than you might think.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 13
  • Australia
    • M
  • Brazil
    • 12
  • Canada
    • PGOntario
  • Chile
    • TE+7
  • Colombia
    • 12
  • Denmark
    • 11
  • Finland
    • K-7
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 12
  • Hong Kong
    • IIA
  • Hungary
    • 12
  • India
    • UA
  • Ireland
    • 12A
  • Israel
    • ALL
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G
  • Lithuania
    • N-13
  • Mexico
    • B
  • Netherlands
    • 12
  • New Zealand
    • M
  • Norway
    • 11
  • Peru
    • 14
  • Philippines
    • PG-13
  • Portugal
    • M/12
  • Russia
    • 16+
  • Singapore
    • PG13
  • South Africa
    • 13V
  • South Korea
    • 12
  • Spain
    • 12ICAA
  • Sweden
    • 11
  • Switzerland
    • 14
  • United Kingdom
    • 12A
    • 12video rating
  • United States
    • PG-13certificate #47934

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