Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for sexual content and some violence including a sexual assault.
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • There are 3 sex scenes. No nudity is explicitly shown, but there are thrusting detail.
  • A man smoothly removes a woman's dress on a beach. She is seen fully nude with no breast (or other) nudity, due to camera angle.

Violence & Gore

  • A dead body is shown; nothing particularly graphic.
  • Domestic violence is shown, a man beats his wife and children.
  • A man gets angry and slaps a woman. She punches him in the face drawing blood. He punches her to the ground and attempts to rape her. She fights him off, hitting with her fists and a stone, kicking him when he's down then threatens to kill him.

Profanity

  • A few uses of 'shit', 'bastard', 'son of a bitch', 'ass', 'damn' and 'whore'

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Wine is shown to be drunk at a dinner.
  • One character routinely drinks beer and does so in a celebratory manner.
  • The father is an alcoholic, drinks and then becomes abusive. In one scene, orders a bottle of liquor from the general store.
  • The characters when dating consumed alcohol - bottled beers. This was frequently a part of the teenagers having their social outings.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Attempted rape.
  • Domestic abuse against women and children. Aftermath is also shown with bruises.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman loses her virginity to her boyfriend who gives her little warning or comfort. We see her pained face on a forceful entry, and she is brought almost to tears. Not a lot of skin is shown (they still have clothes on), but very emotional and traumatic

Violence & Gore

  • Sexual violence. We see Chase attempt and get close to raping Kya. She is flipped over on the beach after being hit and pinned to the sand. She is able to ward off Chase's advances, but it's an aggressive scene.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • An older tate reads katherines book, in the end of the book he finds the shell necklace that chase was wearing implied she killed him.
  • Katherines family leaves her so she has to take care of herself.
  • The film can make you cry because after katherines ends up with tate, the rest of the movie shows them living together and katherine dies.

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