Why is “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language and some sexual references.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several scenes of men and women kissing, an implied sex scene, several scenes with shirtless men, many conversations about sex (some in front of children), discussions of a man being killed by a landmine, minor verbal threats, discussions of grief, many scenes with people drinking alcohol, and about 43 F-words. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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The fourth installment of the “Bridget Jones” series follows Bridget (Renée Zellweger) four years after her husband (Colin Firth) has tragically died. With the support of her friends, she tries to cope and initially finds pleasure again with a younger man (Leo Woodal), while also flirting with her children’s teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Also with Hugh Grant, Sally Phillips, Mila Jankovic and Casper Knopf. Directed by Michael Morris. [Running Time: 2:04]

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A man and a woman go on a date and flirt, they kiss passionately and end up in the woman’s bedroom where he removes his shirt (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back) and removes her dress (she is wearing a slip underneath that reveals cleavage and her bare shoulders) and sex is implied. A shirtless man (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back) lays a woman down on her bed and kisses her, whispering a suggestive remark (sex is implied) and the scene cuts to them lying in bed holding hands (he has a sheet over his groin but it is implied he is nude and she wears a slip; we see her bare shoulders and cleavage).
► A man and a woman kiss in front of a crowd in several scenes. A man and a woman kiss, deepening the kiss and embracing. A man and a woman kiss at a party; we then see the woman lick the man’s face. At a party, a man and a woman dance and hold each other, pressing their cheeks together, and kiss. A man helps a woman to unzip her dress; they then kiss and hug. A man kisses another man at a New Year’s party; the first man looks surprised. A man confesses his love to a woman and then begins to worry that his feelings aren’t reciprocated; she throws her arms around him and kisses him.
► At a party, a man pinches a woman’s buttocks teasingly as he walks by; she gasps and laughs. A woman asks a man if he is Danish. He tells her, “I can be anything you want.” A man tells a woman on the phone that he will get to her house as quickly as he once brought her “to earth-shattering orgasm,” and calls her a “filthy little harlot”; a number of people around him turn to look at him, scandalized. A woman visits a man in the hospital and he tells her, “If I’d known you were coming, I would have worn a thinner nightie”; later, a nurse reminds him that he does not need to remove his gown for tests. A man talks to the woman he is dating on the phone and says he is coming to see her soon, “Naughty old moth to eager young flame”; he exchanges smooching sounds with her and his friend, who is listening, laughs. A man tells a woman she “looks hot,” then clarifies that he means “flustered” and he implies that she is menopausal.
► A woman buys condoms and the cashier reads out the names of them, including, “Pleasure Me,” “Exotic Flavors,” and “Sensitive”; a man overhears this and she appears embarrassed as he tells her to have a good weekend. A man finds a child’s doll in bed with him and a woman, and holds it up, saying, “How did that happen? I was using protection.” During a doctor’s appointment, a young girl is seen reading medical pamphlets on sex and sexually transmitted diseases (we see the words “gonorrhea” and “vagina”); she tries to pronounce “gonorrhea” and “syphilis” and the doctor corrects her on how to say “syphilis.” A young girl drops her backpack and medical pamphlets on sexual health spill out; her teacher picks them up and looks alarmed.
► A park ranger helps a woman and her children out of a tree; the woman’s voiceover indicates that she is attracted to him, and he has to hold her around the waist and touch her thighs when he helps her down. A teen boy (who we hear is sixteen years old) flirts with an adult woman at a party and she flirts back.
► A woman arrives at work at a TV studio in a good mood; several people ask her if she had sex the night before; she shouts that she had a “full night of utterly mind-blowing sex” and a studio audience behind her begins to clap. People in several scenes give a widow advice on coping; some urge her to begin dating and have “lots of sex” while others urge her not to think about sex yet and the woman tells one friend, “Please don’t tell me to have sex,” and the friend tells her no, she should “Leave the pink bits alone.” A woman tells her friend she hasn’t had sex in four years; her friend says it’s time to “widen her [F-word deleted] circle” and they both laugh. A woman tells her friend that she needs to have sex soon. Friends tell a woman that she is a “born-again virgin” and that her “[anatomical term deleted] will reseal”; the woman responds that she is now asexual and nonviable as a sexual partner. A young boy tells his mother that the last time his uncle (a family friend) babysat, he brought “three ladies with big [anatomical term deleted]” who had a pillow fight; when the uncle arrives to babysit, the boy asks if the ladies are coming and the man says they are busy “washing each other’s hair.” A woman reciting a poem on stage uses phrases like “tension of our bodies” and “primordial sweat.” A woman invites her friend to a bar called “The Golden [anatomical term deleted].” A man asks a woman on the phone if she had any fun and “got any [sexual reference deleted]” at an event. A man, who has been babysitting for a friend, asks her if she is going to pay him and “try to [sexual reference deleted]” him. A man tells a woman that she has become a nun after her husband’s death, “Albeit a naughty nun.” In a voiceover, a woman talks about being alone while everyone else in the world is “with partners, watching Netflix and having sex.” There are several discussions of dating apps and a woman signs her friend up on one, making her profile read, “Tragic widow seeks sexual awakening.” A woman says she is going to meet a date who is “in a van nearby.” A woman goes to her gynecologist after an allergic reaction to a lip serum and the doctor says she does not work on “those kinds of lips.”
► A woman makes a comment about being on a new journey in life, and that it feels like “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,” but “The lion and witch are [sexual reference deleted].” A woman discusses flirting on a dating app with a man; her friends discuss her “sexting” and urge her to “[sexual reference deleted] him,” saying, “If you don’t, I will.” A woman discusses feeling self-conscious about her body with her friends and not wanting to be nude with a man; they talk about removing pubic hair and whether to get a Brazilian wax. A woman says in a voiceover, “The secret to calmer, happier parenting is one-night stands.” A woman worries that she has become “sexually obsolete, like a panda.” A young girl tells her teacher about her mother’s boyfriend, describing him as her “new daddy” and says he “gives mummy a funny hairstyle in the morning.” A man talks about his previous sexual relationship with a woman, referencing “sodomy at Sainsbury’s.” A man talks to a woman about his philandering lifestyle and about all the time he spends “twinkling at 20-year-olds” and reminisces about an ex-partner he thinks he was in love with and wishes she hadn’t ended things; the woman reminds him that he “[sexual reference deleted] her sister,” and he replies, “Only once.” A woman says a meal was the worst thing she ever put in her mouth and another woman says she doubts that. A woman discusses unfreezing her eggs and having a baby, and mentions getting sperm from Denmark.
► A man jumps in a pool at a party, fully clothed and when he emerges, his white shirt is soaked and see-through; he removes the shirt and the women at the party stare at him admiringly and one woman says, “Let’s get you out of those wet clothes.”
► In several scenes, women wear low-cut dresses or shirts with visible cleavage. Women wear crop tops, revealing their midriffs. Men remove their shirts, and we see bare torsos and backs in several scenes; and some are done in public while women look on admiringly. In a few scenes, we see a woman’s bra strap while she struggles to zip her dress. A woman tries on a shirt which her friend tells her is see-through; we can see her black bra through the fabric. A woman holds up several pairs of her underwear, putting away a large pair and choosing a small, lacy pair. During the credits, we see clips from previous movies in the series that show a woman in a Playboy bunny costume (cleavage is visible) and in underwear, running down the street (part of her buttocks is visible).

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – During the credits we see clips from previous movies in the series that show two men in a fist fight, trading punches; we see some blood on their faces and as they wrestle, they crash through the front window of a restaurant; we also see a man fall off a boat and a woman fall off a ski lift (they are both unharmed). People discuss the death of a man in several scenes and we hear that he was killed by a landmine explosion while on a humanitarian mission in Sudan.
► People are seen in the hospital in several scenes; an elderly man is shown in a hospital bed talking to his daughter (it is implied that he is dying) and in another, a man tells his friend that he has a heart murmur and thought he was having a heart attack. During a news segment, a host briefly talks about environmental disaster, including “flood, fire and famine.”
► A woman shouts at her children about their obsession with computers and throws a keyboard out a two-story window while her children watch from the ground level and shout, “No!” She meets them outside and says, “Don’t touch those or I’ll [F-word deleted] enter you in the ‘Squid Games.'” A woman and her two children are stuck in a tree and the daughter shouts, “We’re going to die!”; the mother assures her they won’t, but in a voiceover says, “We are definitely going to die.” In several scenes, a teacher blows a whistle, yells at students to hurry to class, and tells some students, “If you’re late, you’ll regret it for the rest of your days”; some people wince at the sound of the whistle and cover their ears. A woman’s children shout and bang a spoon on a pot and she locks herself in a bathroom, screaming that she does not “want to be a mummy right now.”
► A small dog jumps in a pool and people panic, trying to get it to swim back to the edge and a man dives in the pool to save it. A woman doing a news segment about a tortoise complains that it is incontinent and asks if anyone knows how to “get tortoise [scatological term deleted] out of silk.” A young girl says she “has worms” and is seen at the doctor’s office with her mother; the doctor prescribes pills and tells the mother to keep their cat outside.
► A woman imagines seeing her dead husband in several scenes, and he looks at her and smiles. A fire starts on a stove and a woman rushes to put it out; we see the fire and hear the smoke alarm. A woman uses a lip serum that a friend purchased from the dark web and is only legal in Venezuela; we later see her with very puffy lips as she struggles to speak.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy LANGUAGE 9

 – About 43 F-words, 11 scatological terms, 12 anatomical terms, 13 mild obscenities, name-calling (nutters, selfish, fascist, pillock, dirty, filthy, harlot), 8 religious exclamations (e.g. God, by all that is Holy, God’s sake). | profanity glossary |

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy SUBSTANCE USE

 – People ask a woman how her children are coping at home with a babysitter and she jokes that she left crystal meth in the kitchen for them, and a woman calls her children “computer crackheads.” Adults drink wine and cocktails in several scenes, a woman chugs wine from a bottle, a man teaches children to make cocktails in several scenes (one child puts a glass to his lips, but we do not see him drink), a woman thinks about trying to improve her life for her children’s sake so they don’t become “alcoholic wards of the state,” and a woman says “never text when drunk.”

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Grief, love, single parenting, dating and sex after losing a partner, dating with an age gap, losing a parent, religion and souls, artificial insemination.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy MESSAGE

 – It isn’t enough to survive after tragedy; we must try to live.