Information for Parents

Red Sparrow

Red Sparrow

Common Sense Media Age 17

Parents Need To Know

Positive Messages
The movie's ultimate message centers on a woman becoming a victim and then eventually taking revenge.
Positive Role Models & Representations
Violence
Extreme violence. Tons of guns and shooting; characters shot and killed. More than once, a man attempts to rape a woman but is stopped. Blood and gore. Beating and punching. Main female character punched and beaten. Gruesome dead bodies. A man is tortured, with his skin sliced off in strips. A woman receives vicious water torture. Man choked with a cord. Knife fight. Character hit and killed by a truck. Gruesome broken leg, gory operating sequence.
Sex
Graphic sex scenes. Women, including the main character, are shown topless; also full-frontal male nudity. Woman in skimpy black underwear. A woman's underwear is ripped off; naked thighs shown. Quick images of "porn" videos (kissing feet, tied up, etc.). Suggested sexual acts. Strong sexual innuendo and sex talk. Kissing. Disturbing kiss between a man and woman who are related by blood. A man cheats on his wife.
Language
Several uses of "f--k" plus "s--t," "p---y," "c--k," "c--t," "pr--k," "bitch," "whore," "hell," "ass," "Jesus Christ," and "oh God."
Consumerism
Not applicable
Education Value
Ease of Play
Privacy
A secondary character is staggering drunk. Main characters smoke cigarettes, drink socially.
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