Parents Guide for
Memento (2000) More at IMDbPro »

A very brief flashback where a man rapes a woman with nothing shown.

In a few scenes a man wakes up next to other women, once after hiring an escort to help him remember the circumstances of his wife's death.

A man's bare chest, legs, and thighs are seen many times when he observes his tattoos. His butt is also seen briefly after he beats up another man in the nude.

A woman is seen in only underwear in flashbacks.

The first scene of the film depicts a reversed gunshot murder, with a thick stream of blood oozing backwards, blood splatters shown on the walls and floor, and then the shot itself off-screen.

A man is repeatedly given electrical shocks during a test of his memory.

A man gets out of a shower and attacks another man; there is some shoving and tackling, and then the second man is knocked out with a bottle.

After she insults his dead wife, a man slaps and then punches a woman.

In a flashback, a man interrupts a rape and shoots the rapist. He is then bludgeoned on the back of the head by another attacker (causing the memory problem which impairs him throughout the film); he falls to the ground and blood pools under his head.

A woman commits suicide by having her husband inject her with a triple dose of insulin (due to amnesia, he doesn't realize what he's done).

A man strangles another man to death.

Several other scenes of mild violence.

At least 74 "f" words (1 used sexually), 23 "s" words, 2 slang terms for/using male genitals ("c*ck" and "pr*ck"), 1 slang term using female genitals ("c*nt"), 1 crap, 1 hell, 2 uses of "For Christ's sakes" and 1 use each of "Jesus" and "Jesus Christ" as exclamations.

A man finds a woman in a bathroom snorting cocaine.

Some of the characters drink in bars, and a man mentions that it's "beer o'clock".

None of the main characters smoke, but Burt (the inn clerk) is shown smoking in one scene.

One character is a drug dealer. Another character promises to sell him $200,000 worth of amphetamines, only to have him killed.

The entire plot is about a man trying to find and kill the man who raped and killed his wife. Several flashbacks are shown of the rape/murder itself, some of them accompanied by startling noises.