Very strong language includes many uses of "f--k," "motherf----r," "s--t," the "N" word, "bitch," "d--k," "a--hole," "balls," "hell," "goddamn," "oh my God" (as an exclamation).
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The main character is trying to quit smoking, but he's never seen actually smoking. Social drinking at a party and at dinner. A secondary character gets drunk. Spoken story of teen drinking (raiding parents' liquor cabinet, etc.).
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The story centers on an interracial couple. Much of the outside world references back to a diverse neighborhood where they both live. Main character Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) embraces and attempts to defend his Blackness amid microaggressions while maintaining his relationships and attempting to "get out" of a sticky situation. This subverts typical horror genre expectations, creating a world where Black characters get to live beyond the first five minutes. Chris and his friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery) are examples of well-rounded characters with a deep and meaningful connection. Women have minor and supporting roles but aren't portrayed with much depth.
Asks many thought-provoking questions about race. Depicts a strong friendship and the importance of trusting your gut. Sinister plot developments aside, the movie tackles big topics with understanding and lack of judgment, allowing audiences to think and discuss on a (hopefully) new level.
Positive Role Models
a little
Though the movie gives viewers plenty to think about, most characters aren't particularly admirable or heroic. Rod may be the most admirable, showing traits of curiosity, courage, and compassion. The main character stands up for himself and tries to get out of a difficult situation, but he resorts to very violent means to do so.
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Get Out is a horror-thriller directed by Jordan Peele that tackles timely issues related to race in a very thoughtful way. In many ways it's an essential movie of its moment, but it's still got plenty of mature material, making it best for older teens and up. Violence isn't constant but is really brutal when it happens, with fighting, bashing with blunt objects, kicking, stabbing, guns, shooting, and lots of blood. There's also a gory surgery scene and a deer that's hit by a car and shown injured and bleeding. Language is strong, with many uses of "f--k," "motherf----r," "s--t," and the "N" word, as well as some vivid sex talk. There's also kissing, and characters drink in social situations; minor characters are shown drunk, and a story is told about teen drinking. A major character is trying to quit smoking, though he's never seen in the act. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
Spectacularly original thriller has some brutal violence and language
Get Out (2017) follows a black man visiting his white girlfriends family for the first time, and it appears things are not as they seem when a sinister operation comes to light. Expect no violence until the last 20 minutes or so when things become very brutal and violent. Also expect language throughout the film.
VIOLENCE: SEVERE
A deer is hit by a car, and it is shown suffering in the woods crying with a bloody wound visible.
A man is shown having his scalp cut into with a scalpel, and then we see his entire bloody scalp being disposed into garbage revealing his exposed and bloody skull. Then, his skull is drilled into seen from the other side of a panel, blood sprays down the panel and then we see the layer of skull being removed completely and graphically exposing his brain. This scene is apart of a consensual but sinister operation, and is graphic and bloody.
A man is suddenly bashed on the head with a heavy ball. He is shown on the floor weeping in pain as blood spreads around his headwear before he is bashed again. Blood is shown spattered on the ball and we see the man’s motionless body.
A man is impaled by an elk heads antlers. Blood splatters on the wall behind him and he is shown with blood run down his neck. When the antlers are pulled out blood pours out of his mouth and the several holes in his neck and body shown graphically with blood pouring out all over the place until he eventually collapses to the floor. Very bloody.
A man is stabbed through the hand with a letter opener, he then turns his hand with the letter opener still inside of it and stabs the attacker in the face with it, but the camera cuts away on impact.
A man is suddenly strangled violently, and to escape he stabs his attacker in the leg with a letter opener before kicking him to the ground and repeatedly stomping him (partially obscured) as he cries. We hear loud thumping and on the third stomp a crunching noise. He is killed.
A car crashes with two people in it, the woman inside, afterwards, is shown with blood all over her face as she lies on the dashboard dead.
A woman is shot in the stomach, blood spreads all over her shirt and spurts out of the wound before she falls to the ground before the shooter turns the gun and shoots himself in the head briefly spraying out blood. Afterwards, another man starts to strangle the woman who was previously shot, but stops and instead leaves her to bleed.
All of this violence takes place in the final 20 minutes of the film.
LANGUAGE: MODERATE
Around 48 uses of “f*ck”, 40+ uses of “sh*t”, 1-2 uses of “n*gga”, a few uses of “b*tch” and brief uses of “hell”, “d*mn” and “ass”
SEXUAL CONTENT: MILD
Comedic and non-serious reference to “sex slaves”, in order to make a man uncomfortable a woman tells him that she knows he thinks about “f*cking” her, some talk about sex, mild implications to sex and some sexual references.
DRUG CONTENT: MILD
A man is shown drunk and acting strangely, references to people being drunk and a theme of smoking and the desire to quit.
OVERALL: 13+ for some strong brutal violence, brief gory images and for language.
Due to the presence of an important and timely satire, the actual quality of the movie is overlooked. It is a weird gore-fest that proves to be more of a misguided one-off indie movie than a professionally made award-winner. The basis of the movie belongs more in a sci-fi thriller than a “polished” horror movie and therefore many things seem out of place. The oddity of the ordeal coupled with the overall meaningless nature of the movie makes for “just another slasher flick”, who’s only redeeming factor is a somewhat potent satirical element.
As for the content:
There is a large amount of swearing, but nothing said is outlandishly graphic or rude, just a bit f—k, s—t, and one scene with the n-word (used in a friendly and not racist way.
The movie is violent, but only for the last 20 minutes, and the violence is obviously fake. However, blood is shown (if that’s a sensitive aspect in your household).
What's the Story?
In GET OUT, talented photographer Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) has been dating the lovely Rose (Allison Williams) for five months and is now getting ready to go home and meet her parents. Rose's doctor father, Dean (Bradley Whitford), and hypnotherapist mother, Missy (Catherine Keener), try to make Chris feel welcome, but as White adults meeting their daughter's Black boyfriend, their over-the-top attempts to show that they're "down" are cringeworthy. By the time Missy forcibly hypnotizes Chris to break his smoking habit, he starts feeling like strange things are happening. The family's Black servants (Betty Gabriel and Marcus Henderson) act very odd, and the arrival of an unexpected party full of privileged White people—including noted gallery owner Jim Hudson (Stephen Root)—results in some unsettling encounters. Is everything happening in Chris' mind, or is something diabolical about to happen?
More than just a standard-issue thriller, this brutal, smart movie is impeccably made, as well as surprising, shocking, and funny, while also offering a thoughtful look at race. Get Out comes from Jordan Peele (part of comedy duo Key and Peele), who co-wrote 2016's Keanu and now makes his directing debut. It's a bold sociological thriller that attempts to scare its audiences into looking at the world differently, using assured rhythms, camera placements, and editing to make its case. (No shaky-cam or cheap jump scares here.)
Get Out handles prejudice and racism through character interactions and performance, rather than overt moralizing. Chris deals with his circumstances via an understandably complex series of reactions: understanding, gratitude, dismissal, and frustration. Comic relief in the form of actor Lil Rel Howery doesn't initially seem to fit but becomes an intricate part of the movie's fabric. This is terrific entertainment, as well as an essential movie of its moment.
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