Parents Guide for
The Squid and the Whale (2005) More at IMDbPro »

A young boy masturbates in a library and rubs his ejaculate on a bookshelf. In a separate scene he rubs some on someone's locker, but he isn't seen masturbating. Later in the film he rolls a condom on out of curiosity but this isn't seen. A man and a woman are implied to have been having sex. A teen's girlfriend gives him a hand job but this is only seen from upper waist and above. After he finishes she is seen rubbing a towel on her bed sheet, obviously to clean up his ejaculate.

Some parents fight, a mother slaps her son on the face. No intense violence and no gore.

As the MPAA rating of the film says, the movie contains graphic sexual dialogue. Lots of profanity sprinkled throughout. ALL curse words are used, and even some creative combinations of some are said. A father says the c-word to his son a couple of times when he is talking about a woman's vagina. A young boy curses profusely. A teenager makes a remark about what he thinks of some girl's "pussy muscles". The cursing is rarely used to offend anybody though, it's just casual parts of their conversations.

a young boy is seen drinking on about three different occasion. In one of these scenes he throws up in a toilet, but you don't see any puke or anything.

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but the film contains some 'emotional' situations.