Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that The Living Daylights is the 15th adventure in the James Bond series and the first to star Timothy Dalton. Made in the 1980s, it featured a concession to the AIDS era and showed Bond seducing only one woman in the line of duty, though other women are still treated as sexual objects. The PG-rated violence features heavy fighting, chasing, explosions, shooting, and killing, with only a little blood shown; the violence is not particularly realistic. Language is not an issue, except for a brief middle-finger gesture, and drinking and smoking are kept to the background, although Bond smokes a cigarette and drinks a whiskey. Opium smuggling is a part of the criminal plot. All in all, this is one of the less iffy Bond films and perhaps a good place for fans to begin. (The next film in the series, Licence to Kill, was an attempt to showcase a much darker Bond.)

Sexual Content

Bond rips a woman's top off, briefly revealing the side of her naked breast. Plenty of women in bikinis. A woman distracts a man by shoving his face into her cleavage. Two briefly shown naked male bottoms. Some kissing and iffy sexual situations.

Violence

Plenty of fighting, chasing, shooting, explosions, and deaths, with some blood shown. Kitchen fight with knives, mildly burning faces. Strangling with headphone cord. Some dangerous stunts. A war "museum" with a Hitler statue.

Language

A very brief middle-finger gesture.

Social Behavior

Bond is a little more well-behaved in this entry, seducing only one woman in the line of duty, though other women are treated as objects. His license to kill gives him freedom to cause all kinds of destruction without consequences.

Consumerism

Philips electronics are shown more than once: a car stereo, a keychain, and so on.

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Part of the plot involves opium smuggling. Bond is shown smoking a cigarette and drinking whiskey. A martini is drugged. Some other brief, background drinking/smoking, reference to champagne.