Luckiest Girl Alive | 2022 | R | – 6.6.10

Why is “Luckiest Girl Alive” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violent content, rape, sexual material, language throughout and teen substance use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a rape scene with several teen boys raping a teen girl, partial nudity, a few scenes during a school shooting where many teens are shown being gunned down with blood spraying and one teen being stabbed, a fistfight with no injuries shown, many bitter arguments, discussions of rape as well as attempted suicide and gun control, and over 50 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A woman (Mila Kunis) finds herself having to contend with who she really is, when she is on the verge of getting married and landing the job she has always wanted. Tragic events from her past surface and she has to decide whether to take action and exact revenge. Also with Chiara Aurelia, Finn Wittrock, Connie Britton, Scoot McNairy, Justine Lupe, Dalmar Abuzeid, Alex Barone, Jennifer Beals, Carson MacCormac, Thomas Barbusca, Isaac Kragten and David Webster. Directed by Mike Barker. [Running Time: 1:53]

Luckiest Girl Alive SEX/NUDITY 6

 – Many scenes show varying degrees of detail when a teen girl is raped by several teen boys: most scenes include the teen girl wearing a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage, the dress is hiked up in a few scenes and we see her bare legs to the hips; several scenes show the teen girl being raped by different teen boys and we see thrusting in a few scenes with one scene being particularly violent with the boy throwing the girl on a bed and thrusting as she pleads for him to stop and scratches his face with her nails.
► A shirtless man (we see his bare chest and abdomen) leans over a seated woman and kisses her on the head, they then kiss passionately, he lifts her up and they move to a bed where she straddles his lap; they kiss and moan and he asks her, “Can we do it the nice way,” and she lies back and he thrusts between her legs briefly until she pushes him away and tells him to get off her.
► A man and a woman kiss in a few scenes. A husband and his wife kiss on the cheek.
► Teens at a party dance together and one teen girl is surrounded by several teen boys, and we see them making thrusting movements behind her. Several teen girls leave a school dance and drive away in a car as a teacher tries to stop them, but lets them go eventually. A teen girl purchases a morning-after pill from a pharmacy.
► Several teen boys surround another teen boy and a teen girl and tell the girl that she is an “animal” after a party the night before when the boys raped the girl. A teen boy tells a teen girl that there is only a 30% chance of becoming pregnant after sex. A woman talks about writing about men’s pleasure for a living. A woman talks about another woman having had breast reduction surgery. A woman talks to her daughter about the daughter having “developed early.”
► A woman wears low-cut tops and dresses that reveal cleavage, bare shoulders and the partial side of her breasts in several scenes. A man changes his shirt and we see him wearing boxer briefs (his bare shoulders, chest, abdomen and partial thighs are seen).

Luckiest Girl Alive VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – A teen girl is raped by several teen boys, with several scenes showing the teen girl being raped by different teen boys and we see thrusting in a few scenes with one scene being particularly violent with the boy throwing the girl on a bed and thrusting as she pleads for him to stop and scratches his face with her nails; afterward, blood drips from between the teen girl’s legs onto the floor.
► Two boys fight in a school hallway; we see punches land and a teacher is elbowed hard in the face when she tries to break them up (we do not see injuries).
► An explosion in a school cafeteria throws many people through the air and glass shatters and falls around them; gunfire is heard and people run and scream as a teen boy carrying a gun searches through the building, and we see several teens shot and blood splatters as they are thrown and two are shot at close range (we later see one in a wheelchair and the other was killed); a teen boy is shot and falls back on the floor twitching and bleeding until he dies, a teen boy runs away from a gunman and a teen girl stands at a door waiting for the running boy, she lets the door close and we hear a gunshot. A teen boy hands a loaded gun to a teen girl and says, “You know you want to”; she says that she won’t use it, the boy takes it back and shoots another teen boy, and the girl stabs him in the neck (he falls back on the floor wheezing and gasping and we see a lot of blood).
► A woman imagines stabbing her fiancé in the hand at a restaurant table and we see blood spurt. A woman holds two kitchen knives in a store and imagines them dripping with blood and her fiancé lying on the floor motionless with a bloody wound. A woman in a rage yells at a taxi driver and kicks the temperature control as the driver yells back at her and tells her to get out of the car; she shoves and yells at her fiancé when he tries to help her out of the car.
► A woman has a panic attack on a subway and flashes back to someone breaking a window in a house. A woman yells in a rage at her fiancé for playing a song that she says is sung by a “pedophile.” A teen girl walks alone on a road at night after having been raped at a party and asks a convenience store clerk for directions; a man takes her home and asks to take her to the hospital (she refuses).
► A woman yells at another woman on a street after she confronts her about a newspaper story. We hear the voices of several women referring to having been sexually assaulted and feeling silenced. A teen girl tells a teen boy, “I think I was raped” and he yells at her telling her that she is “insane.” A teen boy talks about another teen boy being bullied; he describes that he was shoved onto the ground and defecated on by another teen boy and that the bullied boy later slit his own wrists (he survived). A teen boy yells at a teen girl for not turning in the people that raped her. A woman tells her teen daughter, “You disgust me.” A woman tells a man, “I want to peel my skin off.” A woman tells a man, “I want to watch you squirm.” A man confesses to a woman that he raped her. A woman says that teen boys mocked her publicly about her pubic hair after raping her. A teen girl pleads with a headmaster at her school not to call her mother and tell her about what happened to her. We hear that a teacher is fired after allowing three teens to leave the school grounds. A woman talks about pretending to be important and impersonating a magazine editor when the editor is out to lunch. There are several conversations about gun control, firearm background checks and school shootings. A man asks a woman if she was a “hero or an accomplice” in a school shooting. We see a social media post about the anniversary of a young man’s death. A man and a woman argue in several scenes, sometimes bitterly. A woman argues with her mother in several scenes, sometimes bitterly. A woman says to herself, “I hate your soft voice,” about a man.
► A woman gobbles down two pieces of pizza very quickly, hiding the act from her fiancé.

Luckiest Girl Alive LANGUAGE 10

 – About 57 F-words and its derivatives, 12 sexual references, 10 scatological terms, 16 anatomical terms, 10 mild obscenities, name-calling (psycho, psycho slut, trash, skanky, bastard, babies, horrible, toxic, self-pitying, girl with spaghetti for a spine, pedophile, sexual deviant, snowflakes, flabby cougars, fraud, gauche, sucker, liar, gross, victim, nuts, loser, do-gooder husband, munchkin, insane, financial aid kid, hoity-toity, weird, short fat girl, freak, stupid), exclamations (shh, yikes, whoa, oh gosh, my goodness), 1 religious profanity (GD), 29 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, oh my God, my God, oh God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Luckiest Girl Alive SUBSTANCE USE

 – A teen boy smokes a marijuana cigarette in a few scenes and shares it with a teen girl in one scene. Teens drink alcohol at a party and several are seen to be intoxicated, a teen boy drinks from a flask at a school dance and is ushered out by a teacher, teens drink shots of liquor at a party, people at a restaurant bar drink liquor, and several people taste wine at a party. A man and a woman smoke a cigarette outside a restaurant.

Luckiest Girl Alive DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Rape, pretending to be someone you aren’t to get what you want, marriage, risk-taking, single parenting, classism, sexual assault, feeling safe, emergency contraception, underage drinking, school shootings, approximation of honesty, tragedy, challenges, revenge, vulnerability, attempted suicide, gender roles, grifting, secrets, gun control, vindication, private schools, pedigrees, shame.

Luckiest Girl Alive MESSAGE

 – Some people can get away with anything and never face consequences for their actions.