Information for Parents

Cliffhanger

Cliffhanger

Common Sense Media Age 15

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
Courage, teamwork, and overcoming your fears. Dealing with grief and forgiving others. Criminals lie, kill, and betray others in their attempts to make themselves rich. Some racist and sexist attitudes displayed.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Shootouts using pistols and semi-automatic rifles. Blood spray and death shown. Scuffles in altercations. Characters fall to their deaths. Fights involve biting, knives, and sharp instruments used for climbing. Slashing and stabbing injuries, with bloody wounds and death. One character also suffers bloody friction burns. Character impaled on a large icicle. A bomb blows up a plane in midair and another makes an emergency landing on a mountain. A helicopter crashes, bursting into flames and killing the person onboard. One implied threat of sexual violence.
Sex
Kissing. Reference to climbing being "better than sex."
Language
Language used includes "ass," "s--t," "f--k," "goddammit," "stupid bastard," "a--hole," "motherf----r," "bitch," "son of a bitch," "sissy," and "s--thead." Black character referred to as "boy."
Consumerism
A criminal gang attempts to steal a large amount of money. One character expresses contempt for another for valuing the lives of loved ones over material gain.
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
Adults occasionally smoke cigarettes.
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