Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that this music biopic is way too mature for Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning's young teen Twilight fans. It's full of drinking, drugging, and high-heeled swaggering, as well as plenty of sexy stuff, including kissing between teen girls and sex scenes between teen girls and young men. Substances are mostly limited to alcohol, but teens also snort cocaine. Parents should be prepared for teens to fantasize about running off and starting a band after seeing this movie.
Sexual
Content
Girls make out, with both boys and girls. A couple seem to be having sex in a bathroom, with the guy positioned between the girl's legs, though very little is seen. A teenager struts around in lingerie and high heels on-stage, as part of her act. A man is shown pantsless, having sex with a teen girl, though no body parts are visible. A character poses for suggestive photos. Frank talk about masturbation.
Violence
A band manager yells expletive-ridden insults at his protégés to toughen them up. He throws garbage at them, and gets others to do so as well. A girl throws a heavy object at a glass window, breaking it. Characters have loud arguments with each other. Older men menace a bunch of young girls and threaten them with bodily harm.
Language
Plenty of swearing, from "ass" to "s--t" to "f--k."
Social
Behavior
The message that making music and being cool goes hand-in-hand with broken lives, risky sex, and substance use is definitely on display here. But that's mixed with the message the band members embody onstage -- they're intense and passionate and unwilling to go gently into a chauvinistic industry's good night.
Consumerism
Signage for fast food restaurants. Name-dropping of various bands.
Drugs / Tobacco /
Alcohol
Plenty of drinking by teens and adults, and some pill-popping and cocaine snorting by teens too.
