The Fallout | 2021 | R | – 4.5.8

Why is “The Fallout” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language throughout, and teen drug and alcohol use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes an implied sex scene between two teen girls, a couple of kissing scenes, references to longing and conversations about sex, the sounds of a school shooting with some blood on an uninjured student, discussions about school shootings and gun violence, teens using drugs and drinking alcohol in many scenes, and over 30 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A teen girl’s (Jenna Ortega) life seems like it will never be normal again after a shooter goes on a spree in her high school. She wrestles with how to deal with the fear and trauma, as new friendships are made and old ones are lost. Also with Maddie Ziegler, Niles Fitch, Will Ropp, Lumi Pollack, John Ortiz, Julie Bowen and Shailene Woodley. Directed by Megan Park. [Running Time: 1:32]

The Fallout SEX/NUDITY 4

 – Two teen girls kiss, one straddles the other lying on the floor and they moan and breathe heavily; they wake up in bed together the next morning (sex is implied). A teen girl kisses a teen boy in a car and straddles his lap as he stops her; she becomes embarrassed and leaves.
► A teen boy and a teen girl hug in a few scenes. A teen girl watches videos of another teen girl performing dance moves with suggestive thrusting and hip movements. A teen boy strikes a pose as another teen boy walks past him and says, “I want him.”
► A teen girl yells at her mother saying, “I’m not having sex.” A teen girl tells her mother about having had sex, and explains that it was with another girl so she doesn’t need to worry about getting pregnant. During a therapy session, a teen girl jokes about having a porn addiction. A preteen girl cries and tells her older sister that she started her menstrual cycle. A teen girl talks about having a celebrity crush.
► Two teen girls soak in a hot tub and one is shown wearing a bikini top and shorts (we see her bare shoulders, cleavage and abdomen) while the other wears a T-shirt and shorts. A teen girl wears a crop tank top that reveals cleavage, bare abdomen and back and her nipples are visible through the fabric. A teen girl wears a sports bra and tight-fitting shorts that reveal cleavage, bare abdomen, back, the outline of her hips and her legs to the mid-thighs. A teen girl sits in a bathtub (we see her bare shoulders) and a teen girl sits on the edge of her bed wrapped in a towel (we see her bare shoulders).

The Fallout VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – Gunfire rings out in the hallway of a high school and two teen girls hide in the stall of a bathroom, standing on a toilet, as we hear people screaming outside, one girl hyperventilates and the other whimpers, “We’re gonna die”; a teen boy crashes into the stall next to them and says that his brother was shot (we see him with blood on his shirt and hands) and the gunfire stops, then starts again, and there is more shooting when police officers arrive.
► A teen girl finds another teen lying motionless in a sauna and thinks she’s dead (she revives and seems drunk). A teen girl yells at her mother in a few scenes. A teen girl wakes up gasping, hyperventilating, and sweating several times after a school shooting. A teen girl goes to the bathroom in school and cannot go through the door from fear, she goes back to class and wiggles in her seat uncomfortably needing to urinate and when she leaves the building later she urinates on herself when a loud noise is made and she is startled (we see her wet shorts).
► Teens pass through security and metal detectors when entering their school building and we see them being instructed about active shooter events. A teen girl takes a drug while in school and acts inebriated, she chews on her pen and it breaks, leaking ink in her mouth and face, and she rolls down a flight of stairs in a controlled fashion; lies on the floor until a teen boy picks her up and carries her out of the building. A preteen girl slams into a door when it is locked and she complains that she can’t get into the bathroom. A teen girl collects the leaflets from several teens’ memorial services.
► A teen girl reads a news feed that says there was a school shooting where 12 people were killed; she sobs and hyperventilates as the scene ends. A teen boy talks about the NRA and the lack of gun control that allows a 16-year-old boy to have access to a semi-automatic weapon. A teen girl and her father stand on an overlook and yell profanities together expressing their feelings. Two teen girls talk about a vigil and a teen boy that died after being shot in school. A teen boy asks, “Why did I survive?” A preteen girl asks her older sister if she knew anyone that died in a school shooting. A woman says to her teen daughter after a school shooting, “Where would we be without you?” A preteen girl says, “I’m gonna Amazon a bulletproof backpack.” A teen girl describes having the craziest nightmares and another teen girl indicates that she can’t have nightmares because she is not sleeping. A teen girl asks another teen girl if her dads are cool and she goes on to describe her own mother as being “very white and anxious.” A therapist tells a teen girl that she needs to try to feel before she will be able to heal after a traumatic event. After smoking marijuana a teen girl paces and talks rapidly about people poaching elephant tusks and being trophy hunters. A teen talks about when their father died. A teen girl talks about a meme, “Murder me daddy.” A teen girl tells her mother, “I got drunk and I’m gonna go barf in the shower,” she burps and leaves the room. A preteen girl talks about being afraid that a shooter will come to her school.
► A teen girl vomits outside a house and we hear retching and splatter (we do not see goo). We hear a teen girl urinating (no nudity is seen) as she holds a toothbrush in her mouth and drools toothpaste. A preteen girl cries and tells her older sister that she started her menstrual cycle; the older sister talks about all the “bloody, chunky, gooey” details that she will share with her later. A teen girl retches over a toilet after a shooting and we hear splattering and see goo in the toilet.

The Fallout LANGUAGE 8

 – About 33 F-words, 3 sexual references, 20 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 7 mild obscenities, 3 derogatory terms for African-American people (in song lyrics), name-calling (dude, princess, curvy queen, stoner, bloody chunky gooey, freak, crazy, disgusting, hard, dope, weird, legit, confusing, cheesy, cruel, don’t be rude, stupid, dumb, time traveler from the ’80s), exclamations (stoked, yuck, stop, what up, wow, nice, touché, fat, ew, ugh, freaking me out, like, ow), 24 religious exclamations (e.g. God, oh my God, Jesus, oh God). | profanity glossary |

The Fallout SUBSTANCE USE

 – A teen girl grinds marijuana and rolls a cigarette that she and another teen smoke, a teen girl asks a teen boy if he has any “E” and she takes some (we see her behaving under the influence later), a teen boy jokingly says that he will bring acid, and a teen girl tells her mother that she did drugs. Two teen girls drink wine at one of their homes, a teen girl drinks wine in many scenes throughout the movie, two teen girls drink a lot of wine together in several scenes, a woman guzzles part of a glass of wine, and a teen girl finds a partially drunk glass of liquor in a teen girl’s house.

The Fallout DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – School shootings, semi-automatic weapons, gun control, gun laws, the NRA, change, friendship, emotions, assumptions, regret.

The Fallout MESSAGE

 – Fear can make people behave atypically.