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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

Buzz has a small poster of a scantily clad woman on his bedroom wall. He also asks about French women's shaving habits, as well as nude beaches.

Kevin goes through Buzz's private stuff and briefly looks through a "Playboy" magazine, but then tosses it aside after finding it gross. The viewer cannot see the nudity within the magazine, but vague glimpses of scantily clad women on the cover.

In the Family Fun Edition on DVD and Blu-ray, Macaulay Culkin has his pants pulled down in the deleted scenes. ( It just shows his underwear, no nudity. )

Violence & Gore

There are quite a few scenes where the two burglars get hurt (stepping on a nail and on sharp ornaments, falling down icy stairs, touching a burning doorknob, having a tarantula on their faces, having their head caught on fire and putting it out in the snow, etc...) However, it is portrayed as slapstick humor and is not meant to be frightening. Some blood is shown, though.

Kevin watches a very violent movie where a character is shot numerous times. The gunshots are very loud. Later, Kevin uses the movie to get rid of a potential robber outside the house, but it ends up just being the pizza guy.

The two burglars make many rude and frightening remarks to Kevin, emphasizing that they are going to get him.

The robbers finally catch Kevin, hang him by his sweater on the hook of a door, and threaten to hurt him. Before they can assault him, though, an old man hits them in the face with a shovel and knocks them unconscious. The police show up to arrest the robbers.

Profanity

In the beginning of the movie, Buzz says ass.

The thieves swear some times. And there is a movie character who is saying some bad words, but it's not exactly swearing.

also kevin says "come here you horses ass" at the cubby house

The word "sh*t" is uttered.

None.

A heater scares Kevin in the basement. He later finds out it is just his imagination!

Kevin steals a toothbrush from a store and is chased through the streets by the police. He ends up escaping, though.

The McCallisters' neighbor--an old man--is believed to be a murderer. Kevin's older brother tells him the story, and he spends the majority of the movie being terrified every time he sees the old man.

Water from a kitchen faucet floods the basement.

Kevin is treated badly by his family at the beginning of the movie. In particular, his uncle is very rude and obviously dislikes him, and his siblings think of him as pathetic and helpless. His older brother Buzz eats all the cheese pizza (the only kind that Kevin likes) and says that if Kevin wants any, someone will have to barf it up. Then, as a joke, Buzz tells Kevin to get a plate, and he pretends to throw up. Angry, Kevin knocks Buzz down and creates commotion in the kitchen. The uncle calls Kevin a little jerk, and the whole family is mad at him.

Kevin tells his mother that he doesn't want to see her or the rest of the family ever again, and that he wishes they didn't exist.

One of the burglars poses as a police officer and visits the McCallister family before they leave on vacation. As we later find out, he is just pressing them for information and hatching a plan to rob them once they're gone.

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