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The Woman in Cabin 10 | 2025 | R | – 2.6.5
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Why is “The Woman in Cabin 10” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some violence and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes implied sexual assaults, several people being injured or killed with visible blood and wounds, recurring imagery of a woman being killed by drowning, a brief scene of a woman wearing a bra, several brief kisses between men and women, discussions of death from cancer, and 5 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.
A Guardian reporter (Keira Knightley) who is coping with the tragic murder of a witness, goes on a charity yacht trip to observe a group of the ultra-wealthy, only to once again become a witness to a murder and conspiracy. Also with Guy Pearce, David Ajala and Hannah Waddingham. Directed by Simon Stone. [Running Time: 1:32]
The Woman in Cabin 10 SEX/NUDITY 2
– A discussion implies that a man committed at least one sexual assault (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A man and a woman exchange brief kisses on the lips, the cheek, and hand. A man tells a woman that she “needs to be comfortable with him” and moves forward to kiss her; she appears uncomfortable but allows it. A man and a woman flirt, leaning toward each other as if to kiss but do not; the woman tells the man he was a good mistake, for her and many others. A man boards a yacht and jokes that he brought Viagra for the trip. A woman describes pretending to date a man in order to improve his public image; she says that he formerly had an “incel Caesar vibe” and needed to seem like a “red-blooded alpha”; she also says he doesn’t seem to like women and is creepy. A woman describes a man as, “Still so hot.” Two women discuss one’s “checkered romantic history” and previous disasters, referring to ex-boyfriends. A woman realizes an ex-boyfriend is on the same yacht trip as she is; another person teases them, saying they must have done something other than work together and asks if they need help to avoid a “repeat performance.”
► A man is shirtless in a spa (we see his bare torso). A woman changes shirts and we see her wearing a bra (cleavage, bare abdomen and back are seen). A woman wears a backless ball gown (her bare back is visible) and another woman wears a gown with a cutout that reveals her cleavage. A woman is seen in the shower and on a massage table (we see her bare shoulders).
The Woman in Cabin 10 VIOLENCE/GORE 6
– A man and woman yell at each other and the man rushes forward, shoving the woman and knocking her into a cabinet, where she hits her head; she falls and we see a bloody wound on her head and blood coming from her mouth and the man throws the woman’s body overboard from a yacht.
► There is recurring imagery of a woman drowning as she is locked in the trunk of a car that is sinking in water; she screams and struggles, another woman witnesses the car sinking and screams the trapped woman’s name. A woman hears raised voices, thudding, and then a splash from her yacht cabin window; she steps out on the balcony and sees a body in the water below, and a bloody handprint on the wall.
► A man is stabbed in the neck with a syringe and appears woozy; his eyes become bloodshot later and blood spills from his mouth as he collapses, presumably dead. A woman hits a man over the head with a bottle and he falls from a short pier onto the shore below and we see a bloody wound on his head; it is unclear if he is unconscious or dead.
► A woman shoots a man in the shoulder with a rifle; we see him stagger and we see a bloodstain through his clothes. A man holds a knife to a woman’s throat, threatening people around him to let him go or he’ll kill her and he threatens her that he will stab her.
► A woman is pushed from a yacht balcony and slams into an overhang, then falls into a pool below; the pool cover begins to close, trapping her inside as she struggles and screams in the water, banging on a window in the base of the pool and several people see her, panic and one screams, “You’re bleeding” (she is later seen with a bloody nose). Several people fight and wrestle, tackling each other and trading punches and kicks. Several people attempt to strangle each other (we see struggling and hear gasping) and one man’s nose appears bloody. Two women struggle with each other, one woman screaming that a man will kill the other; one pushes the other into a pipe and she strikes her head, and then falls unconscious.
► A woman flees from several men chasing her, one of whom attempts to inject her with a syringe. A woman finds herself trapped in the engine room of a yacht; she attempts to climb shelves to reach a ceiling exit but falls and screams for help. A woman jumps from the second story of a yacht into freezing water below; she swims to shore and gets onto land, shivering. A woman climbs from her second-story yacht balcony to another; she appears frightened and loses a shoe in the water.
► In several scenes, a man commands another man to “get rid” of a woman and the other man objects to “cold-blooded murder.” A man implies that another man sexually assaulted or killed at least one woman and if he hadn’t made it “go away,” the man would have spent his life in prison. A woman warns another woman that a man will kill her when she is no longer of use to him. A woman sees a threatening message drawn in the steam on a shower door, reading, “STOP.” People refuse to believe a woman when she describes witnessing a murder, call her names, and claim she tried to commit suicide; a man shouts in her face, demanding that she “drop it.”
► A husband and his wife describe arguing as “brawling” and that if anyone wakes up with bruises, it is usually the husband. People discuss a woman being murdered by drowning for agreeing to talk to a reporter. Reporters briefly mention investigating corruption stories, including NGO funds being “stolen from starving children.” People warn a woman not to get on the “bad side” of rich and powerful people.
► People discuss a woman dying of Stage 4 leukemia in several scenes, including the pain of treatment and ceasing all medication; we see the woman, having lost her hair and looking ill and she refers to herself as “worm food.”
The Woman in Cabin 10 LANGUAGE 5
– About 5 F-words, 2 anatomical terms, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (fruit loop, stark raving mad), 6 religious exclamations (e.g. God, Devil). | profanity glossary |
The Woman in Cabin 10 SUBSTANCE USE
– A woman describes a performance art piece where an artist films herself “succumbing to Rohypnol” and then being posed in different positions by her assistants for several hours, and a man jokes that he brought a “bag full of drugs” for another trip and another person jokes that he “can’t afford more rehab.” A woman asks if another woman is allowed to drink on the job, then describes a past job where she would go to lunch and have a “duel to the death by Martini,” people drink wine and champagne and liquor socially in several scenes, and a woman is passed out in the bathtub (it is implied she is drunk). A woman finds many cigarette butts on her cabin balcony and throws them away.
The Woman in Cabin 10 DISCUSSION TOPICS
– PTSD, cancer, murder, gaslighting, abuse of power by the ultra-wealthy, investigative journalism, violence against women, sexual assault, grief.
The Woman in Cabin 10 MESSAGE
– Trust what you saw, even if everyone accuses you of imagining crimes.
CAVEATS
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We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and older reviews are not as complete & accurate as recent ones; we plan to revisit and correct older reviews as resources and time permits.
Our ratings and reviews are based on the theatrically-released versions of films; on video there are often Unrated, Special, Director's Cut or Extended versions, (usually accurately labelled but sometimes mislabeled) released that contain additional content, which we did not review.
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