The House of the Spirits (1993) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong sexuality, and for violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A woman unzips a man's trousers and takes them off. He is wearing a different kind of trousers underneath. She takes off her dress. Her breasts are shown and her naked back. She climbs on top of him as the scene ends.
  • Two little children take off their clothes and play in the river splashing water at each other. They are naked. Nothing sexual.
  • A woman hears moaning. She sees a couple having sexual intercourse in bed from shoulders to feet banes. Buttocks are seen. They are rolling around including a closeup shot of their faces moaning. No nudity is shown.
  • A young man and young woman hugs and kiss.
  • A man lies on top of a woman in bed. She strokes his torso through his vest.
  • A young couple having sex in the river. They are shown nude in a distance. The next shot is them in closeup kissing. They are shown with only their shoulders showing.
  • A young woman is taken by a man. He rips off her top. Breasts are shown under a second. We see him unzipping his trousers and begins to thrust her without detail. Her face is shown without emotion.
  • Sex is shown between a couple.
  • Implied sex.

Violence & Gore

  • There is a car accident where the car blows up. One of the people inside is catapulted outside and gets be-headed on-screen. Their body and head are seen flying through the air in slow-motion. Later another character finds the head and carries it away.
  • A man shouts at his wife to make her love him in a abusive manner.
  • A man slaps a young man.
  • A man tells a young man to take off his shirt. He is seen topless. His father holds his hands to prepare himself for torture. He whips him in the back a few times. No marks are shown but the sound effects of the whipping are very realistic.
  • A young woman gets hit hard a couple of times by her father with a gun. She falls to the ground unconscious.
  • A woman gets hit by her husband. She lands on the wall and slowly falls down. She wakes up with little blood seen on her nose and mouth.
  • A young woman is seen lying on the corner full of bruises and cuts with realistic detail including blood and dirt.
  • A young woman gets blindfolded and gets dragged through chaos.
  • A young woman wearing a blindfold handcuffed gets slapped and falls on the floor.
  • A woman's dead body is discovered where she is living. Her hair is all stringy, her face is white, and her eyes are wide open.
  • There is a man in the film who is very violent. Among other things, he rapes a young girl, hits people (including his own family), threatens to kill people, and attempts to use a gun.

Profanity

  • There is no swearing throughout the film.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are several scenes with intense content, including rape, domestic violence, and death threats.
  • A woman goes to confession at her church and professes her feelings for another woman. She doesn't come out and say it, but it is heavily implied that she is a lesbian. She doesn't talk about wanting to have sex with the woman, but she does express a desire to be near her.
  • The scene where a woman's dead body is discovered may be very frightening to some viewers.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A man strokes the leg and face of a 7-year-old girl. Later in the film, when the little girl becomes an adult, the same man strokes her leg and face.

Violence & Gore

  • Clara dies of a heart attack. The little girl reminds her mother and grandfather. We see him breaking the car window with his walking stick and her mother bursting into tears.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A young man enters a home without being invited in. He is alone with a little girl who looks to be about eight years old. He holds her in his lap and rubs her legs, making her uncomfortable. The child's aunt calls her, and the young man runs out before any more damage can be done. Later, though, when the little girl is a young adult, the same man comes back, beats her violently, and holds her captive.
  • Ferula enters a home and walks toward a couple and their teenager without saying a word. She comes over and kisses Meryl Streep's character on the cheek, then walks out. With tears in her eyes, Meryl Streep's character says "Ferula is dead." The husband runs to the door, where Ferula exited, but she is nowhere to be seen. This can be considered very creepy to watch.

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