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Richard Gere and Topher Grace in The Double (2011)

Parents guide

The Double

Content rating

  • Motion Picture Rating (MPA)
    Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, some disturbing images and language

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

Sex & Nudity

Mild
14 of 26 found this mild
A young man kisses a young woman lightly on the lips.
A woman's shirt opens revealing her bra; she is wearing a very short skirt.
A young man asks a man if a woman is a prostitute and the man implies she is not.
A young man jokingly tells a man, "I made this little guy," while holding an infant.
People talk about Russian prostitutes brought to Washington D.C.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
8 of 11 found this moderate
PG-13 violence type: blood and graphic.
A man silently wraps a metal wire garrote around another man's neck, slicing his neck (we hear the sound of slicing flesh) and then drops the body to the ground where a large puddle of blood is seen collecting around a woman's shoe; she shouts in horror.
A man whips a metal wire garrote around another man's neck as the man tries to stab him with a scalpel, the man gags and falls to the ground, we hear a gurgle of blood and see a small line of blood on the dead man's neck; several people are later seen at the crime scene where the dead body is covered by a sheet.
A young man and a man corner an injured man, they fight, the man grabs the young man and throws him to the ground, we hear a gunshot, one man is shot (we see blood on his shirt), two men wrestle and fight, one of the men shoves the other against a wall and holds a garrote to his neck, the sound of slicing flesh is heard and the man is shown with blood splattered on his shirt as he drops the dead body to the ground; the man who was shot crawls next to the young man and appears to be dying and the young man later explains that the dead men had shot and choked one another.
A man grabs another man holding a gun to the back of his head, he whips the gun around and fires at another man that escapes; the gunman is discovered with a garrote mark on his neck and blood visible on his sliced throat.
Two men watch a CCTV recording of a man leaving a building, the man is attacked in shadow, the sound of slicing flesh is heard and the killer drops the body; we later see a crime scene with the body covered by a tarp, and a man lifts the tarp and we see a dead man while a man explains that the dead man had been "grabbed from behind."
A man violently grabs a woman as she tries to climb out a window, he slams her against the windshield of a car and drags her on the ground, he shouts and holds a gun to the woman's head while threatening to kill her and a young man shouts for him to put down the gun; the man shouts at the young man, puts down the gun and warns the woman that she is "very lucky."
A man leaps from a hospital gurney, grabs a scalpel and threatens several people; he grabs a security officer and throws him into the room, he takes his gun and races out of the hospital.
A man fires into a dark alley, and a man punches the side of the shooter's face and grabs him from behind.
A police SUV pulls over a ridge and several people shout and run, we hear a gunshot, a man in a police officer uniform opens the back of the SUV and we see two dead bodies in their underwear (we see some blood on them), the SUV drives off and we see a dead body on the ground.

Profanity

Moderate
7 of 14 found this moderate
1 F word, 6 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, 5 religious profanities and 6 religious exclamations.
Name calling (killing machine, Soviet spook, cold blooded killer and old man who thinks the war is still cold.)

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
9 of 10 found this mild
A young man and a man enter a trailer where drug paraphernalia and cigarettes butts are seen on a table.
A young man makes a man drink and we see the two drinking along with a woman drinking wine.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Moderate
5 of 9 found this moderate
A young man with his gun drawn looks for another man in a warehouse, and another man watches the CCTV footage of the young man.
A young man and a man chase a man running through an abandoned shipyard, one of the men has a garrote drawn, and spies the runner and allows him to slip away unseen.
A man warns a young woman that her husband and family are at risk of being killed by a man, saying that the man had killed multiple people previously and will "feel nothing" when killing her family.
A young man shouts at a man and threatens to harm him.
A man behind the bars of a prison cell shouts at a young man and lunges towards the bars.
A man warns another man that he is "putting two bullets" in a woman; a young man later asks the man if he is going to shoot a woman in the head and the man confirms.
A man tells a young man that he would kill a man if he found him.
A young man explains that a murderer typically would slit victims' throat in a specific way.
A man tells another man that he had trained on how to murder and kill people.
A young man tells a man that he has orders to kill the man; he then allows the man to live as they chase another man.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 13
  • Australia
    • M
  • Brazil
    • 14
  • Canada
    • 13+self-applied
  • Germany
    • 16
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G
  • Mexico
    • B
  • Netherlands
    • 12
  • New Zealand
    • M
  • Portugal
    • M/12
  • Singapore
    • PG13
  • South Korea
    • 15
  • United Kingdom
    • 12video
  • United States
    • PG-13certificate #46721

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