Parents guide

Two characters talk about if a foot massage is as bad as having sex with someone's wife.

A man takes a shower, but nothing is shown.

A man wears a leather suit implied to be a sex suit. But this suit isn't revealing at all.

Two girls are talking about piercings, one of them mentions that she has a piercing on her genitals.

Near constant swearing in some scenes.

A man wears a gimp suit not revealing.

When Butch gets out of the shower his penis and pubic hair can be seen but very brief.

A man rapes another man in front of two other men. No nudity. Pushing visible.

Butch and his girlfriend sleep and makeout together.

Jules suddenly shoots another man without warning, except that he quickly lifts up his gun toward the couch the man is on. No blood.

Butch throws the hotel's TV in anger after Fabienne admitted she forgot to bring his father's watch.

Vincent Vega injects heroin into his arm. It shows the needle slowly piercing and entering his skin in closeup and then as the blood fills up the syringe. This is all shown for a lengthy amount of time and might make some viewers squirm.

Butch Coolidge punches the gimp in the face, knocking him out.

Butch Coolidge accidently kills his opponent (offscreen) in a boxing match.

Butch shoots another man with a submachine gun, causing the man's limp body to fall back onto the toilet, with bloody bullet holes all over his chest.

A man is raped by another man -- at first it's off-screen but it can faintly be heard, and then before we see it, there is clear warning that we're about to see it.

R violence type: blood and graphic.

A man is shot several times offscreen by Jules and Vincent. The scene is repeated later on the film with visible blood spurts.

Butch Coolidge is whipped in the face with the butt of a shotgun by Maynard, knocking him out.

265 uses of "fuck"

The n-word is used frequently by Jules Winnfield and Marsellus Wallace (both of them being African-Americans). Maynard, Jimmie and Zed also use the racial slur, making them the only white characters to use it.

Many uses of 'shit', 'nigger' motherfucker', 'goddamn', and 'prick'

Only a few uses of Hell were heard.

Frequent cigarette smoking.

Two men have a lengthy discussion about how hash is legal in Amsterdam.

A man buys heroin from his friend. He then describes how the heroin makes you high, when you use it, where it comes from and how much it costs.

One man briefly smokes marijuana using a joint and a woman uses a bong.

Some casual drinking.

A woman uses a credit card to get some cocaine ready to snort however the use of the drug is not shown but implied.

A woman goes into a bathroom and puts her head down (off camera) and we hear her snorting something (cocaine) there are several other women doing the same thing, she then pulls her head up and has a bit of cocaine underneath her nose which she wipes.

Occasional drug references from the protagonists.

Almost all of the drug use ends up backfiring against whoever uses it. The drug use though is very explicit, especially the heroin scene which is shown in extremely graphic detail and for an extended period of time.

A man graphically prepares and injects heroin and a woman mistakes it for cocaine and snorts some. She collapses and nearly dies before getting an adrenaline shot to the heart.

Although the violence is meant to be darkly funny, some may find it disturbing, intense or distasteful.

A man is raped in front of other people as a sign of dominance and perversion. Disturbing and upsetting.

A woman over doses. Very disturbing, some may find it upsetting.