Jesus Revolution | 2023 | PG-13 | – 2.3.2

Why is “Jesus Revolution” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong drug content involving teens and some thematic elements.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, discussions of marriage and marriages ending, a car accident leaving a woman injured, a near car accident, several arguments, a drug overdose with a quick recovery, several scenes of people taking drugs and their effects, several scenes of a woman drinking to inebriation, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Set in the early 1970s in Southern California and inspired by the story of a movement of young people finding religion. With Jonathan Roumie, Nicholas Cirillo, Kelsey Grammer, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Joel Courtney, Mina Sundwall, Julia Campbell, Ally Ioannides, Anna Grace Barlow, Nic Bishop, Jackson Robert Scott, Jolie Jenkins, DeVon Franklin and Charlie Morgan Patton. Directed by Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle. [Running Time: 2:00]

Jesus Revolution SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A young man and a young woman kiss tenderly. A young man and a young woman kiss.
► A man in a bar flirts with a woman and leads her away from the bar as her young son approaches them and tells the woman it’s time to go home and asks when his father will be home; the man is alarmed that she has a son and is married and walks away.
► A teen boy proposes to a teen girl and she accepts. A teen boy tells his mother that he is going to ask his girlfriend to marry him. A teen boy imagines a teen girl is Juliet, while watching “Romeo and Juliet” in a theater; he calls to her, she is embarrassed and leaves the theater (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). A man says that he and a group of people “did everything” (implying drugs) and everyone (implying sex).
► A man is shown shirtless while standing in the ocean (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back). A teen girl wears a sundress that reveals her bare shoulders and back. A young woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage.

Jesus Revolution VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A woman stumbles drunk out of a bar, gets into her car and drives into a road where she is T-boned by a pickup truck; we see her in the hospital on IVs and with a large scar on her face.
► A teen girl collapses on a floor after taking a drug, and twitches and foams from the mouth; another teen girl panics and a teen boy tells her to roll her on her side, which she does, and the first girl coughs and revives. A teen boy drives a van while under the influence of drugs, swerves over the line and oncoming cars honk, a teen boy in the back seat pleads with the driver to slow down, but he swerves on the road and spins out and the passenger gets out of the van and walks away. A teen boy stumbles on a sidewalk, sees the word “DIE” on a car window, and yells, “I don’t want to die,” and a man helps him up and calms him as they sit together.
► A teen boy and a teen girl tug on a car door trying to open it (it eventually opens). A man approaches a woman in an audience and talks to her about her suffering; he prays over her to heal her from addiction, and he approaches another person that is hearing impaired and says that he has restored the hearing in the affected ear. Two men argue about the way a church is being run and one man says, “You’re trying to get rid of me.” A man tells a teen boy that he will never give him his permission to marry his daughter. A married couple argues in a few scenes. A teen boy and a teen girl argue. A man tries to interrupt a sermon and another man tells him to sit down, saying, “Check your ego.” A teen girl tells a teen boy that he is “looking for an excuse to be unhappy.” A man describes the country as being “dark and divided.”
► A teen girl pulls over on a road to pick up a man walking on the shoulder. A man ushers a man outside when he finds him standing in his house; he reprimands his teen daughter and tells her, “He could be an ax murderer.” A teen girl is quizzed by her parents about the possibility of her doing drugs. Many paper cards are dropped from a plane passing over a large gathering of people and we see there are acid tabs on them. A teen girl confronts a teen boy about being high and tells him that she will not join him on his trip after she saw her sister almost die after taking a drug. A woman tells her young son that they are moving to a new town and that his father is not coming back; the boy cries. A man in a wheelchair enters a church and says that he needs help; he says, “I can’t stop. I’m gonna die,” and a man calls for others to pray over him. People question whether following a religion is “just another drug.” A man tells a teen boy, “That’s not human blood,” in a room where he will be staying and goes on to tell him they had raccoons. People pray over a car to make it start and it eventually does. A man asks if a religious movement is a religion or a cult. A woman says, “I always break things.” A teen boy says that he always felt like an orphan.
► Several TV news reports show images of the Vietnam War and war protests. Several members of a church leave during a service to protest new members. We see TV news coverage of the moon landing. A teen boy questions the veracity of ducking under desks as sirens blare. People talk about a rebellion of materialism. A man says that young people (referring to hippies) “need a bath.” The headline on a magazine cover reads, “Is God Dead.” A man says that he and a group of people “did everything” (implying drugs). A man talks about a movement being a communal spiritual awakening. A teen boy says that his father left them when he was a boy and a teen girl says she wishes that her father was gone. A man talks about needing to grow his church’s congregation. A man says of some people attending a church service, “They don’t belong here.” We hear that a young man is finishing his drug sentence. Teens talk to a group of people and one teen talks about Civil Rights and slave owners and another talks about Satan worshiping.
► Two men stand in the ocean and baptize other people by dunking them underwater; one man imagines floating underwater and gasps for air when he surfaces. A man washes the feet of new members as they enter a church after he is told that others are concerned about the carpet getting stained by their bare feet. A teen girl says that she is going to become vegetarian as she cuts a tough piece of steak on her plate.

Jesus Revolution LANGUAGE 2

 – Name-calling (square, hippies, narc, dude, aimless, lost, sheep, idiot, junkies, smelly fish, burnouts, harsh, arrogant, stupid, dumb, beneath me, work in progress, theatrics, piece of junk, righteous cats, irritable), exclamations (what’s your deal dude, wo, shhh, oh my gosh, my stars, that makes no sense, stop it, I get you, enough, oh boy, far out), 9 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus people, God is saving the hippies, quest for God, Lord, spirit juice, Christ, Jesus freaks, where’s Jesus, several passages from scripture are quoted). | profanity glossary |

Jesus Revolution SUBSTANCE USE

 – There are many references to pot, speed and acid and the fact that many young people are doing drugs regularly, a man says that he and a group of people “did everything” (implying drugs), a man tells his teen daughter that he is afraid that she will end up in an alley with a needle in her arm, a teen girl is quizzed by her parents about the possibility of her doing drugs, a man says that doing drugs is a quest for God, and people at a large gathering take acid and we see some affected by blurred vision. People in church drink sacramental wine from individual cups in a couple of scenes, a woman is shown asleep or passed out in bed with a bottle of liquor on her nigh table and a burning cigarette in her hand, a woman seems inebriated and calls her teen son to come home, and a woman drinks and smokes in a bar where others also drink and smoke in a few scenes.

Jesus Revolution DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Regret, seeking fulfillment, religion, the hippie movement, the Vietnam War, revolution, fads, revival, perceptions, healing, hope, unity, miracles, abandonment, weakness, doubt, experiences, drug use and abuse, Communism, feelings, relationships, goals, life plans, ambition, Vineyard movement, opportunities, sacrifice, religion, dogma, Christianity, forgiveness, guilt, propaganda, lies, truth, Romeo and Juliet, differing points of view, Timothy Leary, authority, morals, desperation, spiritual awakening.

Jesus Revolution MESSAGE

 – Don’t lose sight of what’s important.