Why is “Friendship” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language and some drug content.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes references to orgasms, a discussion of a teen girl’s breast size, a man waving a gun around and it discharges, a woman disappearing in a dark tunnel, a man breaking into another man’s house and stealing a gun, a man eating a poisonous mushroom, people being arrested for trespassing, a man becoming obsessed with another man’s friendship, discussions of surviving cancer, many scenes of people yelling at each other, a man licking the psychoactive secretion from a toad, and over 60 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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After a new neighbor (Paul Rudd) invites a man (Tim Robinson) to join his friend group, the man finds himself becoming more confident and really enjoys his new friends, until one evening ends badly and he is then shunned by the group. Also with Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rick Worthy, Whitmer Thomas, Daniel London, Eric Rahill, Jacob Ming-Trent and Billy Bryk. Directed by Andrew DeYoung. [Running Time: 1:40]

Friendship SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A woman says that she had an orgasm while lost in a sewer system and describes her whole body vibrating. A woman wonders at a support group if she will ever orgasm again and her husband says, “I’m orgasming fine.” A teen boy complains that having two girlfriends is expensive. A wife tells her husband that her ex-boyfriend invited her out for a drink and that she is going to go. Several men sing a romantic song to each other at a gathering and one man seems confused. A man talks about buying a bra for his teen daughter and worrying about how people look at her because of the size of her breasts.
► A teenage boy kisses his mother on the lips and his father watches and seems uncomfortable.

Friendship VIOLENCE/GORE 4

 – A man bursts into another man’s house where a group of men gather and he argues with them; he then pulls a gun out of his pocket and waves it around the room causing the men to duck, until one man lunges toward the man and the gun discharges; we hear police sirens approaching and the man runs through a sliding glass door breaking the glass (he is seen later with bloody cuts on his face).
► Men spar with each other using boxing gloves and headgear at a gathering; one man punches another man in the face twice and he recoils, the punched man then punches the other man hard twice knocking him to the floor while other men reprimand him and say he “sucker punched” him and the man puts a bar of soap in his mouth and apologizes awkwardly. A man walks through a sliding door and the glass shatters (he does not seem injured). A man lunges toward another man in a meeting and threatens to beat him up; other people in the room hold the first man back as he continues to yell and swing his arms. A man speeds in a car and runs over a speed bump; we hear metal crunching and scraping and see sparks fly and he pulls over. A man lunges toward another man for breaking into his house and he is held back by police.
► A man eats a wild mushroom and tells his teen son to join him; the teen refuses saying it might be poisonous and the man takes a bite (he later sweats and vomits into a cup and we see goo when he spits on the floor). Police arrest two men for trespassing. Several men sit in a garage and one man shows them a knife that he calls a sword; the others mock him and call it a sword for babies and the man becomes enraged and tells them to leave.
► A man climbs over a neighbor’s fence, walks through the house looking in rooms, and finds a gun in a desk drawer that he takes with him when he leaves. A husband takes his wife to a drainpipe entrance to a passage and they walk through together as she protests; she sees a bat on the ceiling and continues to protest until the man yells at her and she walks away into the darkness and he cannot find her (she goes missing). Two men sneak through a drainpipe and underground passages to enter the City Hall building; one man screams in pain when he climbs into another passage and the other man pulls him up by the arm. A man sinks into a mud puddle and yells for help; he complains about losing his phone in the puddle and damaging his clothing. A man imagines another man having fallen off a ladder and we see him lying on the ground unconscious. A man throws his phone across a room (presumably breaking it).
► A woman talks about being cancer-free for 12 months, but that she suffers anxiety from fearing that it will return. A woman in a support group talks about a “try something different year” after surviving cancer. A man tells another man that he doesn’t wish to continue their friendship and the other man seems confused. A man asks another man how it feels to ditch his wife and they argue; the second man yells and tells him to get out of his house. A man talks about his job being to make products habit-forming so that people will not be able to give them up. A man asks a young man (that turns out to be a teenager) to join him for a drink at a bar and the teen tells him that he has something stronger if he ever wants something stronger than a few drinks. A man stands on a chair at a party and yells to get other people’s attention before making a toast to his wife. A man says that we should still be in Afghanistan.
► A teen offers a man a variety of drugs and the man asks for Ayahuasca; the teen suggests toad and shows the man a toad in a tank and says that he can lick the toad’s psychedelic secretions; the man lies on the floor in a closet and licks the toad, as the teen tells the man that he will die and be reborn.
► A man urinates in a jail cell urinal (we see him from the back and do not see the stream or nudity). A man’s nose bleeds in a few scenes and we see it dripping down his lip and onto his shirt. A man’s hairpiece falls off in a few scenes and he is nervous about being exposed as balding; he slips in a puddle of urine in a jail cell in one scene and his hairpiece falls off.

Friendship LANGUAGE 10

 – About 66 F-words and its derivatives, 3 sexual references, 25 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, name-calling (moron, dumb clown, nightmare, brutal, pigs, crazy, weird, bad guys, busty daughter, idiot box, psycho, coward, child, boy, cutthroat, tricky, dude, boring old [scatological term deleted], insane, stupid, little rats, idiot), exclamations (frickin, oh shoot, heck yeah, ripped me off, oh wow), 2 religious profanities (GD), 21 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, oh God, oh Jesus, Jesus, Christ Almighty, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Friendship SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man licks a secretion from a toad, and a man asks a teen boy for a drug and the teen offers him weed, X, shrooms and toad and the man asks for Ayahuasca. A man asks a young man (that turns out to be a teenager) to join him for a drink at a bar, two men smoke cigarettes and drink bottles of beer on a roof, several people drink bottles of beer and smoke cigarettes, and people drink in a bar. A man smokes a cigarette, men smoke cigarettes in several scenes, and a man asks a young boy if he wants to smoke a cigarette.

Friendship DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Friendship, cancer, anxiety, addiction, obsession, trust, second chances, self-worth, fitting in.

Friendship MESSAGE

 – Men should not have friends.