Chick Fight | 2020 | R | – 6.5.6

Why is “Chick Fight” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language and sexual material throughout, some violence and brief drug use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes numerous and very explicit discussions of sex and sexual orientation, including detailed descriptions of sex acts, many scenes of women fighting in a ring with punches and kicks and throws and some blood shown, a severed ear held up during a fight, several training sequences, a fire that destroys a coffee shop, drinking to excess, and nearly 20 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A single Florida woman’s (Malin Akerman) life is unravelling when she loses her coffee shop, her car is repossessed and she’s threatened with eviction. Relief, and ostensible empowerment, arrives in the form of an underground, no-holds fight circuit for women and by women, where they get a chance to beat each other up. Also with Bella Thorne, Dulcé Sloan, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Nash, Alec Mapa, Dominique Jackson, Fortune Feimster, Alec Baldwin and Alexia Barlier. Directed by Paul Leyden. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in an unidentified language, most without translation. [Running Time: 1:37]

Chick Fight SEX/NUDITY 6

 – Two men hold hands tenderly and one man makes a suggestive remark about having sex together being like between a Great Dane and a Chihuahua. A woman talks about having sex with a man and makes some explicit hand gestures. A man tells a woman that he was not capable of arousal with another woman because he was thinking about her. A woman talks about another woman and says, “I’m going to have her” in a few scenes, and describes what she will do to her sexually, in graphic detail. A woman offers to show a tow-truck driver her breasts to get him to leave her car (he declines the offer). A woman changes the wording on a coffee shop sign to a sexual reference. A woman meets her father’s lover and is surprised to see that it is another man. A man identifies as being sexually fluid. A woman talks about being in self-imposed abstinence from sex. A reference is made to someone being arrested for public nudity. A woman makes several sexual gestures behind a man’s back implying that she plans to have sex with him. A woman tries to explain an injury when she is struck in the crotch by a kicked coconut and tells a nurse that it was “not inserted.” A woman runs into her father in a bar and is surprised to find him in a gay bar and he says he’s going to go to a party until his daughter tells him, “It’s an orgy.” A man is shown in the hospital after having a heart attack during sex and his lover tells him, “Don’t ever pass out inside of me again.” A woman tells another woman, “Don’t forget the handcuffs” (implying for sex). A woman describes another woman’s genitals being shaved.
► A woman falls asleep on a beach and imagines having sex with a man (we see them kiss); she is awakened by waves. A man invites a woman into a storage closet to have sex; they kiss and close the door (sex is implied). A woman sitting on a toilet in her apartment (we see her fully bare leg to the side buttock) hears another woman from a neighboring apartment having sex; we hear rhythmic moaning, yelling and climaxing.
► A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals very deep cleavage. A woman wears a low-cut top and shorts (like bike shorts) that reveal cleavage, bare abdomen and legs to the upper thighs. A woman says that she has a big hairy chest (we do not see this). A man starts unbuttoning his shirt in a bar when two younger men call for him to take his shirt off (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). A woman wears a tank top that reveals part of her bra, cleavage and her nipples are visible through the fabric.

Chick Fight VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – Two women fight in a ring and one woman is punched repeatedly, thrown to the mat, kneed in the chest, punched in the face again and again and we see blood on her mouth and she spits blood; one woman head-butts the other woman a few times and we see her spit blood and they both collapse to the mat (we see bruises on one woman’s face later). A woman holds a severed ear dripping with blood and shows it to a doctor asking for his help with the woman that lost the ear in a fight. Two women fight in a ring and we see and hear loud punches land, they kick and throw each other, we hear bones crunch and one woman spits a stream of blood. Two women fight in a ring, one woman is slammed to the mat after the other fighter wraps her legs around the woman’s head and neck (she is shown getting medical attention later but seems fine). Three women fight in a ring and one is flipped and lands hard on the mat the other is held around the neck, there are more punching and kicking and crunching sounds, and a couple of punches lead to spitting blood. A woman punches another woman in the face a few times while straddling her on a mat. A woman fights another woman and the other woman is wearing a cast on her arm; she jumps and kicks the first woman, knocking her to the mat. A man punches another man in the face and a woman knees another man in the groin (the two injured men leave limping and moaning). Two women punch each other in the face and fall to the mat at the same time.
► While training, a woman punches another woman in the head repeatedly until the woman doing the punching collapses from exhaustion. A woman punches another woman in the head repeatedly; the woman being punched becomes upset and walks away. A woman punches a fast bag with a coconut in the net instead of a ball and it comes back to hit her in the face a few times. A woman punches a watermelon repeatedly until it breaks open and sprays juice and fruit all around. A woman is struck in the crotch with a coconut kicked by two men on a beach (we see her in the hospital but she is OK). A man is shown in the hospital after having a heart attack (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details).
► A police officer chases a man and another officer knocks the perpetrator to the ground, slams him against a cruiser and arrests him for drug dealing. A woman chases and argues with a tow-truck driver about towing her car for lack of payment (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details). A man starts unbuttoning his shirt in a bar when two younger men call for him to take his shirt off; he collapses onto a table and then the floor (he’s unharmed).
► A woman asks another woman, “Am I about to get murdered” when they enter a fight club with women fighting in a ring. A police officer tells a perpetrator, “Mother Theresa would pistol whip you right now,” while she is arresting him and he tells her that he will tell his mother. A woman asks another woman if she is ready to bleed and she makes a menstrual cycle joke. We hear that a woman died from cancer.
► A woman flicks a partially lit marijuana cigarette into a puddle of high alcohol content liquor on a floor and it starts a fire that burns a coffee shop to the ground; we see rubble and smoldering ash later (there are no injuries). A woman sitting on a toilet in her apartment realizes that she has no toilet paper within reach. A woman says that she is going to “puke” (we do not see this happen). A woman gags before entering a fighting ring (she does not vomit).

Chick Fight LANGUAGE 6

 – About 19 F-words, 9 obscene hand gestures, 14 sexual references, 28 scatological terms, 14 anatomical terms, 24 mild obscenities, name-calling (funk, Bear, broad, dude, princess, lazy, raunchy, evil, skinny, temporary insanity, great white shark, ruthless, coconut lady, filthy minx, bad, head case, repugnant, idiot), exclamations (are you kidding me, are you out of your mind), 2 religious profanities (GD), 11 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, God, Jesus, Oh God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Chick Fight SUBSTANCE USE

 – Two women smoke marijuana and one is a police officer, who retrieved the drug from the evidence locker. A man and his adult daughter drink beer from bottles, two women drink from a flask and one says that it contains moonshine, a man seems very drunk in several scenes throughout the movie, a reference is made to someone being arrested for drunk and disorderly, a man collapses after having many drinks, a character says “We drink a lot of Tequila,” people drink in a club, and one woman says that she is “totally ripped.” A man smokes a cigar, and a man smokes a cigarette while doing push-ups.

Chick Fight DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Death of a loved one, life changes, disappointment, sexuality, failure, demons, revenge.

Chick Fight MESSAGE

 – Punching and being punched, kicking and being kicked, sweating, bleeding and being injured, are empowering for women.