Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that there are a few scattered swear words in this generally gentle drama about a very average, nice American guy endowed with mental superpowers. Overall this movie is more a romantic tearjerker than the science-fiction action/mind-blower some fans -- restless kids especially -- might expect. There is an upsetting death of a main character (off screen).

Sexual Content

A mild suggestion that George and his girlfriend have slept together.

Violence

An earthquake, and some thrown glasses in a bar argument.

Language

Some. "S--t," "hell" a few times, "goddamn," and "freakin.'"

Social Behavior

George argues the merits of basic decency and just being a real nice guy, even with his I.Q. soaring. His close down-home buddies are similarly depicted in rosy, salt-of-the-earth terms, though some of them grow to resent and fear George's transformation. Doctors and scholars are depicted as arrogant and untrustworthy.

Consumerism

Not applicable

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Social drinking, beers in the bar, talk of drunkeness (it comes across as a hallmark of being a "regular guy"). A character is slipped a sleeping drug unknowingly.