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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

When Ripley is pinned down on the table by Ash, several pictures of naked women are shown on the wall next to them (breasts are very faintly visible); this is not seen on the television airings.

When Ripley prepares for hypersleep, she strips down to nothing but an undershirt and panties (in a few instances, you can see the crack of her buttocks).

Violence & Gore

The alien in this movie shoots a set of teeth at a man (some blood is seen).

The alien bursts through a man's chest while he is eating dinner with the rest of the crew (blood spurts everywhere).

The alien attacks a man and pierces his head with its inner jaw (a puddle of blood is shown in the director's cut).

A man is attacked by the alien, and you see blood in his mouth as he screams; it is then implied that Lambert is raped by the alien; later, you see the man very briefly with blood on him and a severed foot dangling nearby.

A man is hit in the head with a fire extinguisher and white substance comes out of him; he is then hit once more and his head tears off; moments later, we figure out he is a robot; afterwards, the crew asks him questions and at first he answers with sputters and spurts (his blood is white, though).

A man cuts a "finger" off a facehugger and it bleeds acid.

The crew looks at the insides of a facehugger alien.

A woman is attacked and beaten severely by a human-like robot or android on-screen (her nose bleeds and she makes disturbing moans as she is being thrown all over the place).

Profanity

5 "F"-words, 1 sexual reference, 8 scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, 20 mild obscenities, 5 religious profanities, and 8 religious exclamations.

Some people smoke cigarettes.

There are some scenes that will make you jump and some scenes that you may find intense or frightening.

In one scene an alien surprisingly burst through a man's chest.

In the scenes when the monster shoots teeth at its victims, it will make you jump.

In the scene when Ripley is getting ready for hypersleep, a monster reaches out to grab her (very sudden).

When Dallas is in the air ducts, the alien screeches when he sees him and reaches out to grab him (very brief moment, yet still very frightening).

Parker and Lambert are attacked by an alien (very frightening and intense); it is also very discreetly implied that Lambert is raped by the alien (though you don't see anything, her screams and deep cries that are heard can be very disturbing).

The alien is more frightening than it is violent or gory.

In the scene with the alien eggs, one egg opens and an alien jumps out and attaches to Kane's face (a very surprising jump moment).

The scene where Ripley is beaten up by Ash is quite frightening and pretty violent compared to the rest of the movie

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MPAA:
Rated R for sci-fi violence/gore and language. (director's cut)
Certification:
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (director's cut) (2003) / Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) (director's cut) (2003) / Canada:18A (Manitoba) (director's cut) (2003) / Canada:PG (Ontario) (director's cut) (2003) / Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) (original rating) / New Zealand:M (re-release) / New Zealand:R16 (original rating) / Italy:T / Canada:14+ (Ontario) / Finland:K-18 (director's cut) (DVD rating) / USA:TV-14 (TV rating) / Portugal:M/16 (DVD rating) / South Korea:15 (re-rating) (2003) / South Korea:18 (original rating) / Philippines:R-18 / Brazil:14 / West Germany:16 (f) / Israel:16 / India:A / Czech Republic:18 / Argentina:13 / Australia:M / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Chile:14 / Finland:K-16 / France:-12 / Hong Kong:IIB / Iceland:16 / Ireland:18 / Japan:PG-12 / Netherlands:12 / Norway:15 (director's cut) (2003) / Norway:16 (original rating) / Norway:18 / Peru:14 / Singapore:PG / Spain:13 / Sweden:15 / UK:15 (director's cut) / UK:18 (video rating) (1987) / UK:X (original rating) / USA:R (certificate #25541)

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