Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in WWII. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects him.
Men are nude in a shower scene.
A man offers himself sexually after mistaking the visits between a child and an elder as a sexual relationship.
A girl goes down to give a guy oral sex.
violence
A cat is shown being placed into an oven which causes it to burn it's paws on the gas fire before it gets away.
A man is violently attacked and killed (stabbed, hit with shovel and beaten) which leaves him very bloodied.
profanity
Several curse words throughout film.
goddamn
Jesus
Chr*st's sake
Jesus Chr*st
fucken
alcohol
A girl smokes marijuana in her car. Ian McKellen's character is a chain smoker and drinks alcohol non-stop.
frightening
Some nightmare disturbing scenes of the holocaust and concentration camps. Several sudden moments which can make viewers "jump".
