Linoleum | 2022 | NR | – 1.3.5

Why is “Linoleum” rated NR? The MPAA has not rated this film. The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes discussions of relationships, a couple of car accidents leaving mild bloody injuries, a failed rocket booster test with part of a garage catching fire, a bicycle crash, a rocket crashing in a backyard, a teen punches another teen (no injuries are seen), bullying, many arguments, discussions of memory loss, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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The host (Jim Gaffigan) of a failing children’s science show is inspired to do something important when a rocket drops out of the sky in his backyard. Meanwhile, his timeline may be unravelling in odd ways. Also with Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Roger Hendricks Simon, Elisabeth Henry and West Duchovny. Directed by Colin West. [Running Time: 1:41]

Linoleum SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A husband and his wife lie in bed together holding hands (they’re fully clothed).
► A teen girl tells a teen boy, “You’re not my type,” and “I like girls.” A teen girl asks a teen boy if he will pose for photos. A teen girl talks about wishing she had “big fake boobs.”
► A teen girl pushes a teen boy’s paper off his desk, he leans over to pick it up and we see the waistband of his underwear (they appear to be women’s underwear); a teen girl photographs him and other teens laugh (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).

Linoleum VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A man in a car speeds toward a teen boy and a teen girl, he veers just before hitting them and the car flips over (we see the man with blood on his hand and head). A car falls from the sky and lands on its roof in a street near a man; we see the crumpled car, shattered glass and a body in the rubble with blood on his hand (we see this a couple of times). A car speeds next to a man on a bicycle and the biker falls off the bike and onto the ground (we see dog feces smeared on his jacket sleeve, but no injuries are shown).
► After a teen girl and other teens laugh at a teen boy in a classroom (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) another teen girl punches the first teen girl in the face (no injuries are visible). It is implied that a man lashes his teenaged son’s arm as punishment; he has the teen place his hand on the Bible and we see bruises from previous lashings.
► A man tests a rocket booster in his garage and it sprays flames onto a wall; the man douses the flames with an extinguisher and no one is harmed. A man arrives home to find many emergency vehicles parked outside and he is told that an old Russian space vessel crashed in his backyard; he and his family are told that they are not allowed on the property or in the house until further notice. A man is wheeled on a gurney into an ambulance. A teen boy sneaks out of his house at night in a few scenes and he jumps from the roof of the garage to the ground (he is not harmed). People throw toilet paper in tall trees at night (as a Halloween prank).
► Two teens walk along train tracks and the boy jokingly asks the girl, “Is this where you take all your dates to get murdered?” A woman and her teen daughter argue bitterly. A man threatens to kill his son if he sees him with a teen girl again. A woman tells her husband that the divorce papers will be ready soon and he asks, “Are we sure we want to do this?” A man is upset with his boss for giving a preferred time slot that he promised to him to another TV show. A man is frustrated when he gets a rejection letter from NASA. A man sees an elderly woman standing nearby in several scenes; they do not speak. A man says that his teen son is embarrassed by him. A woman says of a man, “He’s lost it.” A teen girl says, “I hate her guts,” about another teen girl.

Linoleum LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 2 obscene hand gestures, 3 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, 3 derogatory terms for gay people, name-calling (crazy story, stupid, outlandish, horrific, old lady, space junk, weird, embarrassing, sucker, abnormal, insane), exclamations (wow, gotcha, shut-up), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. God, Jesus, oh God, Holy, for Christ’s sake). | profanity glossary |

Linoleum SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man drinks several glasses of wine, a woman drinks cocktails in several scenes, and two women drink wine and champagne.

Linoleum DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – The universe, stars, planets, gravity, doing something fantastic, ambition, aging, self-worth, regret, memory issues, family relationships, rationality, feminism, progressive attitudes, guilt, thermodynamics, judgment, entropy, chaos, Albert Einstein, divorce, evolution, Möbius strip, paradoxes, time and space, life choices, disappointment, doppelgängers.

Linoleum MESSAGE

 – The universe is personal, and takes place in our minds. Time is not linear.