Here | 2024 | PG-13 | – 4.4.5

Why is “Here” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “thematic material, some suggestive material, brief strong language and smoking.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several implied sex scenes, a discussion of a sexual encounter, several kissing scenes, a baby being delivered at home, a volcano erupting, several people dying from various health-related issues, discussions of war, discussions of dashed dreams and the passage of time, many arguments, many scenes of people smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire, the film depicts events taking place in one specific location through history, across many timelines, as families dream, live, love, grieve, suffer, age and die. With Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Lauren McQueen and Zsa Zsa Zemeckis. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. [Running Time: 1:44]

Here SEX/NUDITY 4

 – A young man and a young woman lying on a sofa kissing are interrupted when a young boy turns on the lights; we see the young woman with her skirt up to her hips (her bare legs are visible) and the young man lying between her legs (sex is implied). A man and woman kiss tenderly and lie on the ground as the scene ends (sex is implied); we later see the woman pregnant. A woman lies back in a reclining chair and a man lies between her legs and they kiss as the scene ends (sex is implied). A wife invites her husband upstairs, we hear the man unzip his pants, he unbuckles his belt, his pants drop to the floor and we see him wearing boxer shorts as he follows his wife out of the room (sex is implied).
► A young man and a young woman kiss. A man and a woman kiss passionately. A bride and groom kiss. A husband kisses his wife on the cheek. A man and a woman dance in an embrace in a painting.
► A man and a woman dance a tango, twirling and embracing and the woman is wearing a bra and a short skirt (we see cleavage, her bare abdomen and legs to the upper thighs). A woman wearing a bra and slinky pants dances to music while vacuuming (we see cleavage and her bare abdomen).
► A woman’s water breaks; we hear and see a gush of liquid as it splatters on the floor (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A man describes having sex with his wife on his mother’s sofa when they were young. A young man tells his father that his girlfriend is pregnant (they are 18 years old), the man yells at him and the young man’s mother embraces him warmly. A woman says that she is pregnant.
► A woman wearing lingerie poses for photographs in a reclining chair; one pose shows her topless as she lies on her stomach (we see her bare back and legs). Several men wear loincloth-type clothing that reveals their bare chests and abdomens and legs to the mid-thighs. A painting shows a fully nude woman outstretched and we see flesh tones without explicit detail.

Here VIOLENCE/GORE 4

 – A man coughs a couple of times, stands up and falls dead on the floor while others in the room panic.
► A woman comes home to find another woman collapsed on the floor and calls for help; we understand that the woman had a stroke and we see her later in a wheelchair. Mourners sit around a coffin where a man’s body lies and we are told that he died from influenza. A woman’s body is carried on a stretcher by several men. A man closes up a bed in a room where a man had been convalescing and we understand that he died.
► Mud puddles on the ground bubble in close-up as insects flutter around, dinosaurs trample through the landscape and a volcano erupts in the distance throwing a cloud of dust and debris. A house is shown in flames, a horse drawn fire cart arrives and men spray water on the flames. Several men dig a hole in the ground where they say a house will be built.
► A woman yells and falls to her knees asking a young boy to call a taxi to take her to the hospital when her water breaks; the boy calls the fire department and we see the newborn delivered by firefighters. A man with a bow and arrow shoots at a deer, misses and the deer dashes away followed off-screen by the man.
► A young boy bounces on an ottoman where an infant is seated and the infant is bounced off and lands on the floor (seemingly unharmed) as the boy’s father yells. A young boy pushes a girl off a chair during a game of musical chairs and his mother sends him to his room. A pregnant woman tries to bend down to pick something up from the ground, winces and holds her side. People play with sparklers and fireworks.
► A husband and his wife argue bitterly and she tells him that she is leaving him. A wife yells at her husband about his flying an airplane and later that he took their young daughter up in the plane. A husband tells his wife that he was passed over at work and we understand that he was let go; he talks about never succeeding. A husband and his wife argue about buying a house of their own in numerous scenes. A father yells at his young son in several scenes. A father is dismissive of his son’s interest in art and drawing. When a woman says that she would like to go to college and become a lawyer, a man asks, “What’s wrong with being a wife?” Several family members yell at a teen boy when he tells them that he has enlisted in the navy. A man describes a recurring nightmare that he tries to save his wife from drowning but that he can’t reach her. A woman describes beginning to forget things. An elderly man gets out of bed and walks with a walker across the room when he thinks he sees his wife (she is deceased). A doctor tells a woman, “We’ve done everything we can,” and we understand that her husband dies. A man talks tearfully about his wife and we understand that she died. A teen boy asks his father if he ever killed anyone in the war and he describes seeing a friend getting his “jaw blown off” during the war. A woman says that her husband went missing at Midway. A woman says that her husband has lost the hearing in one ear from the war and has bomb fragments in his hip. A man on horseback announces that the British have surrendered and the war is over. An African-American man instructs his 16-year-old son about how to behave if he is pulled over by the police. A woman complains about a house feeling like a shoebox. A woman says that her young daughter got her head stuck in the chimney when she was looking for Santa. A man complains about the color of walls in a house and asks if they were painted with “vomit.” A woman says that she can’t smell anything. Children recite lyrics while jumping rope about influenza.

Here LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 4 sexual references, 9 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory term for German people, name-calling (shoebox, treasonous rabble, terrorist, crazy, quack, spaz, jerk, balderdash, nightmare, ruffians, filthy, scoundrel, idiot, ridiculous, ugly, stupid, wise [anatomical term deleted]), exclamations (oh great, oh my goodness, oh please), 6 religious profanities (GD), 27 religious exclamations (e.g. God knows, oh my God, good Lord, Jesus Christ, God, from your lips to God’s ears, direct line with God, God help me, Christ Almighty, thank God, my God). | profanity glossary |

Here SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man drinks liquor from a glass in many scenes throughout the movie, women drink glasses of wine during a children’s party, a man drinks a glass of wine, a man drinks bourbon in several scenes, two women drink wine and smoke cigarettes, and people drink liquor and smoke cigarettes at a party. A man smokes cigarettes in many scenes throughout the movie, and women smoke cigarettes in many scenes throughout the movie.

Here DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Time, aging, families, PTSD, war, memories, giving up on dreams, progress, divorce, marriage, life coaches, debt, taxes, invention, the future, memory loss, death of loved ones, teen pregnancy, influenza, police profiling.

Here MESSAGE

 – Time flies.