Shattered | 2022 | R | – 7.7.9

Why is “Shattered” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence, bloody images, sexual content, nudity, and language throughout.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several sex scenes with partial nudity, a couple of scenes of non-sexual nudity, many scenes of torture-type violence with bloody injuries shown, a few fights with swords and knives and guns that end in death and bloody wounds, and over 40 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A newly separated, newly very affluent man (Cameron Monaghan), living in a hilltop mansion, meets a young woman (Lilly Krug), falls in love and she moves in, only to soon discover she may not be who she seems to be, and may have nefarious motives. Also with Ridely Asha Bateman, Sasha Luss, Dat Phan, Frank Grillo, John Malkovich and Ash Santos. Directed by Luis Prieto. [Running Time: 1:32]

Shattered SEX/NUDITY 7

 – A man touches a woman’s knee and invites her to stay with him, she removes his glasses and they kiss, he puts his thumb in her mouth, takes off his shirt and they have sex in bed: we see his bare back and chest, her bare breasts, partial pubic area, abdomen and legs and buttocks, as they thrust while seated and straddling each other. A man and a woman have sex and she straddles his hips and thrusts on him as he moans and caresses her breasts (we see her bare breasts, leg to the hip and buttocks and his bare chest and abdomen and legs to the hips).
► Two women kiss passionately; one woman wears a tank T-shirt that reveals cleavage and underwear that reveals her legs to the hips. A man and a woman kiss. We hear sexual moaning and rhythmic movement from off-screen.
► A man uses a master key to enter an apartment and calls out to the resident, “Are you decent? I hope not” (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). A woman flirts with a man and tells him, “I’m willing to have sex with my patient” when she offers to be his nurse after he is injured. A man and woman flirt in a few scenes. A man makes a sexual gesture with his tongue toward a woman. A woman says that a man is not half the lover another man is.
► A man watches through a telescope as a woman in a nearby home practices yoga in the nude (we see bare breasts, abdomen, pubic region, legs and buttocks). A man opens a bathroom door and we see a woman dead in the tub partially covered with bloody water (her bare breasts are visible). A woman wears low-cut blouses and dresses that reveal cleavage in several scenes. A man’s shirt is unbuttoned and we see his partial bare chest and abdomen.

Shattered VIOLENCE/GORE 7

 – A man with a knife runs through a house chased by a woman with a sword; she catches up to him and slashes him with the sword, straddles him on the floor and stabs him repeatedly; blood sprays on her face and clothing sand he lies in a pool of blood, dead. A woman kicks a man in a leg cast out of his wheelchair and uses a power drill to drill a hole through the cast and into his leg as he screams in pain and we see blood (blood is shown on the drill bit and a towel later). A man grabs a woman and she stabs him in the arm with a pair of scissors (we see blood on his sweater). A man uses a meat clever to cut another man’s thumb off (we see it separate with a lot of blood). A man opens a bathroom door and we see a woman dead in the tub, partially covered with bloody water (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and with very bloody cuts on her wrists. A man stabs a woman in the shoulder (blood drips from the wound).
► A man punches another man in the face. A woman carrying a gun walks through a house after lights turn off; two women fight, one woman is stabbed with a knife in the leg (we see some blood) and another woman is shot in the back (she falls to the floor dead). A woman shoots a man in the chest. A man cuts another man with a sword.
► A man is interrupted from trying to break into another man’s car, a woman that’s with the car owner throws a bottle at the thief and hits the car window, and the thief attacks the man as he yells, “I’ll kill you,” and hits him on the leg with a crow bar a couple of times; the man falls to the ground yelling (we see him with a cast and in a wheelchair later). A woman tasers a man in the neck and he falls to the floor, where she tasers him again. We see a man with duct tape across his mouth and bound into a wheelchair. A man speeds on a snow vehicle and jumps over a ridge, crashes onto a road and slides in front of a car that stops short of hitting him (we see scratches on his face later).
► We hear yelling behind a closed motel room door. A woman accepts a ride from a man that she just met, and then accompanies him to his home. A man tells a woman that her roommate died. A woman sells all of a man’s belongings. A young girl crawls through a vent to get outside.
► A man and a woman talk about the man signing divorce and alimony papers. A child asks her mother why she doesn’t love her father anymore. A man says, “walk of shame,” as a woman returns after a night away from her apartment. A man threatens to evict two women from their apartment if they don’t pay rent. A little girl talks about getting lost in a park and fearing that she would never see her parents again. A woman tells a man that she is “damaged goods” and goes on to explain that she was in and out of foster care through her childhood. A man describes being obsessed with security.

Shattered LANGUAGE 9

 – About 41 F-words and its derivatives, 10 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (punishment time, looney Lisa, crazy, hermit, stalker-like, odd, damaged goods, shady, punk, stupider, tech dork, scammer, naughty girl, guilty, hatchet-faced, jealous, snooping, monsters), exclamations (none of your business), 2 religious profanities (GD), 4 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, Jesus Christ, oh my God). | profanity glossary |

Shattered SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman gives a man pain medication in a few scenes. A man pours two glasses of wine and the woman guzzles her glass down quickly, a man drinks at a bar, a man and a woman carry bottles of what look like beer while walking on a street, a woman drinks a beer, and when helping a woman choose a bottle of wine in a store a man describes one as the type to “kill before you pass out.” A woman smokes a cigarette.

Shattered DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Divorce, alimony, wealth, shame, fraud, con games, identity theft, deception.

Shattered MESSAGE

 – Be careful of accidental meetings that lead to instant intimacy.