Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that this popular Golden-Age-of-Hollywood comedy concerns multiple murders and madness, but without anything graphic shown. Violence is just roughhousing and a menacing display of knives. Some jokes (especially having to do with baseball stats of 1944) are badly out of date. There is an undercurrent of drinking, with poisoned wine a key plot element. This isn't in any way meant to be an enlightened view of families grappling with mental illness.
Sexual
Content
Not applicable
Violence
Slapstick-y fistfight, including a bench-clearing baseball brawl at the start (that has nothing to do with anything). People get hit on the head a lot, including by police billy-club. Mortimer is tied up and threatened with death via surgical-scalpel torture, though nothing comes of it. Despite the many killings that have taken place, dead corpses are hardly even seen.
Language
Not applicable
Social
Behavior
Breezy stuff doesn't go out of its way to instruct or preach; it's mostly for laffs, with the slight suggestion of how frantic Mortimer is willing to sacrifice his marital happiness for the ones he loves -- whether it's his murderous aunties or his new wife (Mortimer briefly fears that he's inherited genetic insanity himself and tries to scrap the marriage). Undertone that even sweet little old crazy ladies can rack up a body count as impressive the full-time maniac Jonathan.
Consumerism
Not applicable
Drugs / Tobacco /
Alcohol
Alcohol drinking by various characters, with the qualifier that some of the wine is poisoned, and would-be victims are disuaded from imbibing. Mortimer smokes.
