Why is “Eddington” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong violence, some grisly images, language, and graphic nudity.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a scene with a fully nude man, a couple of kissing scenes, discussions of child abuse and teen pregnancy, people being shot and killed with bloody wounds, an explosion that kills a man and wounds another, a man being shot and stabbed in the head, discussions of racism, police brutality, social justice, and COVID-19, many arguments, and at least 30 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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The sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and the mayor (Pedro Pascal) of a small New Mexico town do not see eye-to-eye on most things, and inevitably the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement set off a series of unforeseen events. Also with Deirdre O’Connell, Emma Stone, Micheal Ward, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka, Luke Grimes, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau and Austin Butler. Directed by Ari Aster. [Running Time: 2:28]

Eddington SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A fully nude man (we see his bare chest, abdomen, genitals and legs) is carried to a commode and when he tries to thrash away from the nurse, the nurse hits him on the head.
► A husband and his wife lie in bed together, they kiss tenderly and caress each other, he touches her back and they stop abruptly; she apologizes and he rolls over on his side. A man and a woman hug goodbye. A husband and his wife lie in bed together and she falls asleep. A disabled man is put in a lift to put him in bed and a woman wearing a nightgown (we see cleavage and her bare shoulders) gets in bed next to him; a nurse removes his shirt and pants and gets into bed next to the woman (we see his bare chest, back, abdomen and he is wearing jockey-style underwear).
► A teen boy watches a video of a teen girl dancing and asks another teen if he should ask a teen girl out.
► A husband asks his wife if her “father ever…” (he does not finish the sentence but it is implied that he is wondering if her father ever sexually assaulted her as a child). A teen boy remarks about his father dumping the man’s wife.
► An ad on a phone screen shows a woman’s bare buttocks. A young woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage.

Eddington VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A barrel is seen in flames and a man standing near the barrel tries to tell police officers that arrive holding guns on him not to approach; one officer moves toward him and a large explosion blows them into the air (we see bodies thrown into the air and a bloody severed arm is seen on the ground and one man is seen with bloody wounds on his head and face). A man shoots at a person shooting at him from a distance, the shooter chases the man and continues to shoot at him, the man breaks into a gun store to get ammunition and exits with a high-powered machine gun, shoots striking a man and severing his leg and the other shooter shoots the wounded man in the head killing him (we see the bloody wounds and the severed leg); the other man runs away crashing through the roof of a building and shattering a glass display case inside and is shot in the chest (we see blood) and stabbed in the head twice (he does not die) before the assailant is shot several times and blood spurts.
► A bar is shown with a broken window and a man is seen inside drinking from numerous bottles of liquor; the man yells unintelligibly and another man enters and shoots him three times (he falls dead with bloody gunshot wounds in his chest); the shooter wraps the body in plastic, takes it to a cliff over a river and dumps it into the water. A man sitting in a chair in his home is shot by someone outside, through the window and the back of the chair (we see the bloody bullet hole in his chest and he slumps over dead); a teen boy in the house discovers the body and runs away as he is shot at and struck (he falls dead through a plate glass window).
► A man pounds on the door of a bar that has been locked to keep him out, and he yells until he manages to get the door open and enters, drinks from a bottle of liquor and a sheriff charges in and they scuffle briefly before the man leaves the building. A sheriff hits a teen boy in the face when they argue during a protest (we do not see an injury). A man slaps another man in the face twice when they argue about a noise complaint.
► Flames in the shape of an arrow are shown on a road and a man in a car speeds through the flames. A sheriff speeds in his car and when he looks away from the road, runs into a man protesting (the man bounces on the hood of the car and then walks away seemingly unharmed). A sheriff speeds in his car and nearly hits protestors gathered in a street.
► A police officer is arrested for murder. A man is held and kept from entering a grocery store without a face mask on; the man complains that he can’t breathe when he wears a mask and a sheriff orders the store staff to allow him to go into the store (he does so); we later see other staff members yelling at the man and making him leave. People argue at a crime scene about jurisdiction and whether the crime was committed on Tribal Land. Many protestors gather in streets where they block traffic and argue with police in several scenes.
► A man is shown with a badly scarred face after an explosion. A man is shown walking barefoot and rambling angrily in numerous scenes and he is identified as being homeless in one scene. A man seems to get dizzy and stumbles back against a counter. A man uses an inhaler and wheezes deeply in a couple of scenes. A man gets a COVID-19 test and we see a swab being inserted in his nostril.
► A man records a statement about his wife having been raped when she was 16 and being forced to have an abortion when she became pregnant. A man says that as a child he was taken to a place where he and other children were stripped nude and photographed (it is implied that the children were abused) before they were released and hunted. A woman locks herself in a room and her husband pounds on the door asking to be let in; she yells at him to be quiet and he leaves when she agrees to have dinner with him later. A woman talks about her husband dying from cardiac arrest. A man says that he had a breakdown after his father died. A man says that another man and a woman were locked in a cell as teenagers.
► We hear news reports of riots in cities around the country and people talk about shop windows being broken. A sheriff in his car is told by two officers in their own car that he needs to be wearing a mask and they argue briefly (one officer says, “People are dying from this thing”) before he puts one on and the other two officers drive away. Protest remarks directed at Dr. Fauci are painted on store windows. A person says, “Human thought is being phased out.” Protest signs read, “Cops Kill,” “No Justice, No Peace,” and “I can’t breathe.” People discuss and argue about a data center being constructed in their community. A teen jokes about a gathering becoming a super-spreader event. People discuss riots happening across the country.
► A man takes target practice in the desert in a couple of scenes shooting at targets and bottles. A dumpster is shown engulfed in flames.

Eddington LANGUAGE 7

 – About 30 F-words, 14 scatological terms, 6 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, name-calling (pigs, liars, dumb, weird, annoying, white critical, retarded, demons, free for all, evil, Nazi, fascist, stupider, repugnant, abuser, sexual predator), exclamations (gee whiz), 1 religious profanity (GD), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus Christ, God is speaking through you, oh my God, I swear to God). | profanity glossary |

Eddington SUBSTANCE USE

 – Two teen boys walk on a sidewalk and a sheriff asks what he smells (one of the teens is holding a lit marijuana cigarette), a woman says that she is out of sleeping pills, and a man uses an inhaler in numerous scenes. A sheriff asks a teen boy in a lockup how much he had to drink, and teenagers drink beer. A woman smokes cigarettes in several scenes, and people on a private plane smoke cigarettes.

Eddington DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – COVID-19, pandemics, mask mandates, asthma, police brutality, Black Lives Matter movement, catch and release, leadership, politics, pedophilia, child sexual abuse, rape, racism, privilege, terrorism, Tribal Land, martial law, jealousy, shame, power, imbalance, George Soros, ANTIFA, white supremacy, love, slavery, denial, suicide, abortion, shame, changing institutions, greed, social justice, technology, Bitcoin, AI, family, mRNA vaccines, community.

Eddington MESSAGE

 – Greed and power can lead people to extreme actions.