The Family Plan | 2023 | PG-13 | – 5.6.5

Why is “The Family Plan” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “sequences of violence and action, sexual material and some strong language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a sex scene with partial nudity, a couple of implied sex scenes and remarks about sexual relationships, many scenes of gunfire exchange, hand-to-hand combat and knife fights with a few implied deaths and injuries shown, a few car chases including gunfire exchanges, several arguments, and at least 2 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a suburban dad’s (Mark Wahlberg) uneventful life is interrupted by colleagues from his former life as a deadly assassin, his only option is to take his unsuspecting family out of the country before they track him down and kill him. Also with Michelle Monaghan, Ciarán Hinds, Zoe Margaret Colletti, Van Crosby, Iliana Norris, Vienna Norris, Maggie Q, Joyner Lucas, Kellen Boyle, Felicia Pearson, Lateef Crowder, Miles Doleac, Jonny Coyne, Saïd Taghmaoui and Kash Abdulmalik. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in French and German with English subtitles and a few lines are spoken without translation. [Running Time: 1:58]

The Family Plan SEX/NUDITY 5

 – A man steps out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist (his bare chest, abdomen and back are shown); he and his wife kiss passionately, he lifts her up and carries her to a bed where he lies on top of her and they kiss and moan briefly (sex is implied) and we see them covered with sheets exclaiming about the sex they just had (we see their bare shoulders and the man’s bare chest). A man climbs into bed with his wife and she makes a remark about “anniversary sex,” as they kiss; they then lie in bed together (no sex occurs). A teen boy answers his door wearing boxer briefs (we see his bare chest, abdomen and the outline of his genitals) and a teen girl at the door is upset when she sees another teen girl in the room with the teen boy (sex is implied).
► A husband and his wife kiss and embrace. A husband and his wife kiss tenderly in a few scenes. A woman sits on a man’s lap and kisses him while his hands are bound behind him (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A woman remarks about being in a relationship with a man and describes “not being able to get enough of each other, physically” (she says this to the man’s current wife). A remark is made about someone being “crazy in bed.” A man remarks, “Cars are like chicks, they wanna go fast.” A woman tells a man, “Your fly is open,” and he quickly reaches for his pants and looks embarrassed (we do not see anything). A teen girl tells another teen girl, “Your dad is hot.” A teen boy asks if he can go to a strip club while in Las Vegas.
► A man showers and we see his bare shoulders and chest. A woman does a keg stand and her top lifts to reveal her bare abdomen. A woman wears a low cut top that reveals cleavage.

The Family Plan VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A man is shot at through windows and he falls to the floor as glass shatters around him; he throws a bottle of liquor into the air and shoots it causing it to blow up and two people catch fire, while another gunman holds a woman at gunpoint, and the first man throws a knife that strikes the gunman in the eye (we see the knife in the man’s eye and some blood as he falls back) and the woman vomits off-screen (we hear her retching; we do not see goo).
► Many armed people exchange gunfire with a man, an elevator explodes and a man is thrown over a balcony, and many people fight with punches and kicks. A woman shoots at another woman and they fight: one woman is thrown over a balcony and lands on the ground below, she is shown pinned under a piece of debris and gets up limping, she runs holding a pole using it to vault but the pole snaps and she falls to the ground again, and later uses a piece of the pole to throw at the other woman standing on a balcony above her and stabbing her through the chest (she falls back dead). Two men fight with knives and one man holds a gun on the other man; one man hits the other man with a metal pole and he is knocked unconscious. A man in a grocery store hits the glass door of a cooler trying to hit another man (who has his toddler son in a carrier attached to his chest) and the glass shatters; the two men fight and one throws a knife at the other, who blocks the blade with a pack of diapers, they continue to fight throwing each other into shelves and dumping boxed goods on the floor, and one man is slammed into a pole and one man is left unconscious. Armed people on motorcycles chase a man driving a van with his family sleeping inside; gunfire is exchanged, the van swerves to avoid bullets, a motorcyclist is thrown off his bike and skids on the road, another rider clings to the window of the van and the driver squeezes milk from a toddler’s bottle under the rider’s helmet visor causing him to let go and tumble on the road. A man with a gun threatens another man and they fight with kicks, punches and throws in a lab where many glass containers shatter; one man is stabbed in the leg with a scalpel (we see blood on his pant leg), and one man is held around the throat with tubing and is left unconscious. A woman pushes a soiled diaper (we see some fecal matter) into a man’s face and he falls back over a railing yelling (we do not see the result but understand that he is dead). A woman sits on a man’s lap and kisses him, he frees himself from binding on his hands, squeezes a pressure point that causes the woman to fall unconscious and he gets away from her.
► A man is shot at in a crowded arena, he shoots back, hitting the person in the chest but we see the bullets lodged in a bulletproof vest as she gets up; a teen boy vomits (we hear him retch and see a bit of goo). A man is surrounded by many armed people and threatened by a man. A man confronts another man about taking a photo of him kissing his wife; the offending man goads him and pours a slushy drink over his head and the man walks away embarrassed. A woman holds a heavy bag for another woman in a kickboxing class and she is accidentally punched hard in the face (we see a slight bruise on her face later). A man punches a glass-covered photo of a man and his family and the glass shatters. A teen girl squeezes a painful pressure point in a teen boy’s arm causing him to yell and fall to the floor moaning.
► A teen boy plays violent video games that show people being shot and blood spurting from wounds. Women are shown punching heavy bags in a kickboxing class and one woman punches her bag aggressively while blaming her teenage daughter for her stress. A teen boy and his father play a round of laser tag and the teen is frustrated when his father wins.
► A man speeds in a van in several scenes and spins into parking spaces and a driveway. A man and his family in a van are chased by people in another vehicle and we see the passengers being thrown side-to-side when the man speeds around turns; he speeds into a mechanic’s bay and lifts the vehicle off the ground to find a tracking device and the people chasing him are unable to see him. A man confronts another man carrying a briefcase and he suspects it contains something nefarious; when the case is thrown and opens, we see jars of corn kernels spill onto the floor. A man and a woman ride a roller coaster and scream. A woman does a keg stand. A teen boy blows up and pops a chip bag while in a car, startling passengers.
► A teen boy’s gamer tag is KillBoi. A man tells another man, “I wanted you dead.” A woman and her teen daughter argue about where she wants to attend college. A teen boy and his father argue several times about the amount the teen spends gaming. Two teens argue about who will be babysitting their younger brother. A teen girl says, “Journalism is dead.” A man says, “I should have kicked that guy’s [anatomical term deleted].” A woman says that she feels trapped by her quiet family life. A man throws four cell phones belonging to his children and wife out a car window and over a bridge as the family members yell at him. A teen girl tells her teen brother that she is sorry she ratted him out. A man describes holding a woman’s hair back while she “barfed.” A man changes a toddler’s diaper (no nudity or excrement is shown), and he and the child both react to the odor. A man remarks about having to undergo a cavity search at an airport.

The Family Plan LANGUAGE 5

 – About 2 F-words, 2 obscene hand gestures, 4 sexual references, 16 scatological terms, 6 anatomical terms, 12 mild obscenities, name-calling (anti-establishment, idiot, crazy, crazy sexy, pompous, hypocrite, naïve, weird, anti-technology, suburban shlub, freak, laser tag savant, sneaky little [scatological term deleted], wimp, nobody, gross), exclamations (leave it, oh no, fricking, ew, oh my gosh, oh come on just die, it sucks to suck, you can’t be serious, oh baby), 2 religious profanities (GD), 26 religious exclamations (e.g. oh God, my God, I swear to God, Holy [scatological term deleted], oh my God, Jesus). | profanity glossary |

The Family Plan SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman does a keg stand and drinks beer from a tap after she says “beer me” and people watch and cheer, and a husband and his wife drink champagne in a restaurant.

The Family Plan DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Lack of confidence, living a lie, anti-establishment, family, jealousy, monogamy, pride, toxic masculinity, safe spaces, estranged families, fake IDs, government assassins, online gaming, social media, systematic racism.

The Family Plan MESSAGE

 – Family is the most important thing in the whole world. Every few months there will be a movie about an ordinary person who was previously an assassin.