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(1990)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Kevin finds a playboy magazine.
  • Buzz wonders whether French women shave their armpits.

Violence & Gore

  • A man walks into a store with blood stained gauze on his hand.
  • Two intruders try to break into an someone's home, A kid is at the house home alone preparing to defend it. One of them try to fool the kid into letting them in. The kid sticks his rifle out of the dog door and shoots one of them in the groin, the man winces and screams in pain. The other then puts his head through the dog door, the kid with the BB gun then shoots that man in the forehead, we hear him yelling and screaming.
  • A man has his right hand severely burned when he places it on a searing-hot doorknob and it makes an 'M' mark on his hand, we then see him scream and cool it off with snow.
  • An intruder breaks into a door with a blowtorch causing it to light his scalp on fire, he stumbles and puts it on ice to cool it off (we see his hat melted off, we see smoke coming out of his scalp with scorch marks on it).
  • Feathers are blasted on a man who's trapped in plastic wrap and glue.
  • Two intruders who've broken in a home, walks and slips on micromachines and toy cars planted on the ground, (they collapse and land hard on their backs).
  • A man slips on wire and a man grabs a kid by the leg who grabs a spider from the attic stairwell. The kid grabs it and then places the tarantula on the man, causing him to scream. The tarantula then lands on his partner's shirt and he slams a crowbar on his chest hard to get the tarantula off of him, (he misses the tarantula). His partner then furiously strikes him back with the crowbar multiple times in anger.
  • Two men try crossing from window to treehouse with a rope. As they reach the midway point, a kid cuts it sending them swinging into a wall and on the ground.
  • A man slips on a stairwell to the basement door, he then slips when he gets up, the crowbar hanging from the knob lands on his head. Later as soon as he exits out of the basement door he once again slips and falls (played for comic effect).
  • A man pulls a string from a lightbulb and an iron falls from a laundry chute and slams directly at his face (We see a huge mark and scar on his face along with swelling).
  • A man loses his shoes and socks while going up the tar-covered basement stairs and unnoticeably steps on a nail causing him to scream, collapse and fall hard on his back. (No blood shown we do not see the nail pierce deeply through the foot).
  • A man breaks into the window of a house and unnoticeably steps on Christmas ornaments barefoot causing them to break apart, we see him scream in pain as he does so.
  • As two people charge at a kid from a stairwell, a kid throws paint cans at them, one slams on the other's face while the other hits his nose (they both fall from the stairs and collapse on each other and we hear that one of the men's silver tooth is knocked from his mouth).
  • A kid goes by a flooded basement then is ambushed by two men who threaten him by making him suffer the same injuries they had suffered. One of them starts biting the kid's fingers.
  • All violence in the film is used for comic effect, none of it has any blood or graphicness.
  • A child is chased by a police officer through an ice rink.
  • An old man saves a kid from two intruders by striking them hard on the head with a shovel, they are knocked unconscious before they could do any harm to him.
  • A man accidentally pushes a chair to a child's mouth, we see him struggling.
  • Two men are arrested, one of them kicks the other as he is being led away.
  • A kid dangerously sleds at his house from a stairwell, his sled flies out through the entrance (no harm done).
  • A man walks on stairs drenched in watery snow he slips and lands on his back. He then tries walking past it again but slips (he tumbles and collapses head first).
  • A kid climbs the bookshelf in a room and it breaks and he and everything falls.
  • Kevin shoots action figures down the laundry chute with a BB gun.
  • A kid tries attacking his brother causing a fight.

Profanity

  • "Ass" "Hell" "Damn" are used including mild insults.
  • Marv says the s word when he drops his boot very subtle and only noticeable with subtitles.
  • Cinemax content advisory: rated PG for violence (V), adult language (AL), and adult content (AC).
  • The phrase "horses ass" is used.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • In one scene near the beginning there is a drunk man on TV. You can barely hear him.
  • Kevin puts on aftershave containing alcohol.
  • Adults drink on the plane.
  • A man dressed as Santa Claus smokes a cigarette.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a scary old man who is their neighbor.
  • For people who are scared of spiders, several scenes show a pet tarantula. Including a shot where it appears on Marv's face.
  • Kevin expresses a lot of rude behavior towards his mom.
  • A child is left alone for days with no way to reach his family. While he is alone he is attacked by house robbers.
  • For kids/tweens.
  • The scene where the men attempt to break in the kid's home.
  • The movie is about a kid who's left alone at his house while his family is flying to Paris. He is accompanied by ruthless criminals attempting to break in his home and possibly harm him.
  • There are some intense chase/stalking scenes.
  • Some scenes where the kid is in peril.
  • Robbers are threatening towards Kevin.
  • Robbers catch Kevin and hang him on a door by his shirt. They bully him.
  • The slapstick finale is comically intended but some of the booby traps are disturbing/cringeworthy. For example one of the robbers steps barefoot on a rusty nail sticking up on the floor. They are hit in the head by heavy objects, etc. No blood is shown in these scenes.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Kevin places a tarantula on Marv, causing his partner to slam a crowbar on him to get the tarantula off of him.
  • Kevin watches a movie called Angels with Filthy Souls and a deal between two gangster-type characters goes awry, with the character named Johnny killing another man with a machine gun, which frightens Kevin. It is kind of graphic, smoke can be seen and Johnny laughs sadistically while killing the man. Black and white. The scene is repeated two times more later in the film, but used for comic effect.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Buzz says that Marley killed his whole family, but it turns out not to be true.

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