| nudity |
Several teenagers French-kiss.
A teenage girl makes a comment about "boys with roamin' hands and rushin' fingers".
A man bathes himself in a metal tub outside a shed.
A man is an obvious pervert/pedophile (in a deleted scene, he has a warehouse full of young people in incriminating sexual positions).
Mostly mild sexual innuendo. |
| violence |
A young man punches another in the face; the other punches back and the first goes down.
Gang fights break out, although these scenes are usually played comically, with cartoon-like special effects.
A young man tells about how his grandfather electrocuted another young man's parents (the other young man's father was the "Alphabet Bomber"; he bombed places in alphabetical order [airport, barbershop, carwash, drugstore]) |
| profanity |
1 or 2 uses of 'ass' and 'titties', and 1 use of 'fuck' (2 more in the Director's cut). |
| alcohol |
A man and woman have a cigarette stand outside a high school and are selling to teenagers.
A woman is smoking while in an iron lung.
Several other characters smoke and drink. |
| frightening |
The violence is mild overall.
This, along with Hairspray, are director John Waters' more family-oriented films. The director's cut has some additional sexual content.
Suggested MPAA Rating: PG-13 for suggestive content and brief strong language |
