Parents Guide for
The Secret Life of Bees (2008) More at IMDbPro »

A man and a woman kiss. A young man and a young woman kiss. A teenage boy and a teenage girl kiss. A teenage boy puts honey on his finger and a teenage girl licks it off, they look at each other with interest and appear startled by what they are feeling; then they go back to work. A teenage girl kisses a teenage boy on the cheek (he seems shocked). A young man and a young woman flirt, he tries to convince her to dance with him, and he picks her up and swings her around. We see a man wearing boxer shorts and a tank T-shirt. A teenage girl unbuttons her top and places a photograph on her bare abdomen, her father finds her buttoning her top and assumes that she has been with a boy and punishes her. A young woman tells a man that his teenage daughter needs to be measured for a training bra. A woman makes a "candlestick salad" and a banana protrudes from a pineapple slice and is topped with a cherry in such a way that it looks phallic.

(taken from kids-in-mind.com)

A woman commits suicide by drowning herself and putting a rock on her face and legs to keep her underwater. She is pulled out by some other people, who are distraught at the sight. She lays lifeless in the one person's arms and is clearly dead.

A husband grabs his wife by the arm and shoves her while they argue. The wife finds a gun. He grabs her, and the gun falls to the floor. A young girl picks the gun up and we hear a gunshot (a voiceover tells us that the woman was killed by the gunshot).

A man slaps a young woman hard in the face, then three men force her to the ground, demand an apology for something she hasn't done, and they punch her in the face (we see her with bruises and a bandage on her head in a hospital later).

A man slaps his teenage daughter hard across the face, and then grabs her by the hair to take her back home with him.

A man forces his teenage daughter to kneel on a pile of dry grits on the floor for an hour (we see her sore and bloody knees the next day).

Several men grab a teenage boy by the arm and force him out of a movie theater; the boy is not heard from for some time, and people fear that he may be seriously hurt (we see him later with a bruised face). A father and daughter argue bitterly, and he raises his hand as she cowers on the bed.

We see a large stitched wound on a young woman's forehead.

A teenage girl vomits during an intense scene (we see goo and hear gagging and splatter).

A man crushes a cockroach under his shoe (we hear the crunch).

(taken from kids-in-mind.com)

4 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, 13 derogatory terms for African-Americans, name-calling (lunatic, selfish, coward, idiot, dumb), 5 religious profanities, 7 religious exclamations.

(taken from kids-in-mind.com)

A young man and a young woman argue, and he leaves very angry, and she throws apples at his car as he drives away.

A teenage girl throws many jars filled with honey against a shed door (the jars shatter and the honey slowly dribbles down the wall).

One of the characters has severe emotional problems. This character cries at the drop of a hat and is no emotionally fragile, other people try desperately to prevent from telling her things that might upset her. She has something set up in her backyard that helps her deal with certain things. It is mentioned at one point that this character's family was advised to "put her away"--in other words, send her to a mental institution.

A teenage girl is recalling issues from her past that still affect her. Overwhelmed by it, she ends up fainting.

People grieve at a woman's funeral (we see the casket and grave).

A woman talks about her twin sister dying when they were infants.

A man is angry, abusive and bitter throughout the movie.

A teenage girl tells her father that she hates him. He responds by telling her that her mother never loved her, and that her mother abandoned her when she was a child.

A teenage girl sits in her bed and sees many bees circling around her head, and she runs to the next room to wake up her father. When they return to her room, the bees are gone, and he is mad at her for waking him up for no reason.