Mafia Mamma | 2023 | R | – 6.9.9

Why is “Mafia Mamma” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “bloody violence, sexual content and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few sex scenes and implied sex scenes, discussions of intimacy problems, discussions of infidelity, several fight scenes with guns leading to death and bloody wounds, a fight with a high-heeled shoe as the weapon, a death by being ground in a grape grinder, discussions of crime families and revenge murders, and nearly 50 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a woman (Toni Collette) is fed up with being taken advantage of, she travels to Italy for her estranged grandfather’s funeral, only to find out that he was a powerful Mafia Don and she is the next in line for the position. Also with Monica Bellucci, Sophia Nomvete, Alessandro Bressanello, Eduardo Scarpetta, Tommy Rodger and Tim Daish. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. [Running Time: 1:41]

Mafia Mamma SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A shirtless man stands behind a young woman leaning forward over the back of a sofa and thrusts as his wife enters the room; the young woman adjusts her skirt and we see cleavage as the man pulls up his pants (we see him wearing boxer briefs). A man and a woman kiss passionately and he removes her jacket, they lie on a sofa and he thrusts as the scene ends (sex is implied); they wake up later still lying on the sofa. A man and woman lie down in the brush in the distance and it is implied that they are having sex.
► A man and a woman kiss passionately, laugh, and fall back onto a bed before the woman interrupts to go to the bathroom. A woman stumbles and falls backward and a man catches her; they linger in the embrace until the man tells her she can stand up and she seems flustered. A man kisses a woman on the cheek. A woman smacks a man and a woman on the clothed buttocks trying to get them to start moving.
► A man puts a woman’s finger in his mouth to lubricate it in order to put on a ring. A woman lies next to another woman on a daybed and puts her leg across her hip before straddling her (we see the woman’s bare legs to the hips and part of her underwear) while they talk (it’s not clear if this is sexual).
► A woman tells another woman, “Once you had sex I thought you’d calm down.” A man and woman sit close to each other and a woman from another room says, “Kiss her already,” (they do not kiss). A man says, “They left the bullet in my spleen. Do you want to feel it?” and a woman replies that she does. After being caught by his wife when he was having sex with another woman, a man says that he has an illness and that he wants to have sex all the time with different people. A woman complains that she and her husband have not had sex in 3 years. Several women in a self-defense class chant “Eat, Pray, [F-word deleted]” several times.
► A woman kisses a dead man lying on the ground with blood on his throat. A man makes a thrusting gesture with his hips when we hear a woman moaning behind a closed door.
► A woman adjusts her breasts in a low-cut dress and we see cleavage. A woman changes clothes in the back of a car with two men in the front (we see cleavage and bare shoulders briefly). A woman’s dress reveals cleavage in several scenes. A man reaches into his pants, grunts and moans, flatulates and retrieves a vial of liquid (we are told it is poison). A photo of a woman’s bare buttocks wearing thong underwear is seen on a monitor. A woman changes her clothes and we see her wearing a bra and pants that reveal cleavage, bare abdomen and back. Women wearing bikinis are seen on jet skis. A woman wears low-cut tops that reveal cleavage in several scenes.

Mafia Mamma VIOLENCE/GORE 9

 – A woman is attacked by a gunman that points a gun at her, holds her across the chest, throws her onto a sofa, pushes her legs apart and tries to unfasten his belt (implying that he is going to rape her); the woman screams and attacks the man using a stiletto heeled shoe, hitting him repeatedly in the groin and face (we see blood and tissue in his crotch and blood on his face and head), and she pounds on his face and eyes (one eye is pulled out and rolls on the floor nearby). People walking through narrow streets in a small village are shot at by people with guns hiding in a bell tower and riding on a motorcycle; a few people are struck and others return fire and run away as a gas tank explodes. A man and two women shoot at each other, one woman and the man argue on a platform, the woman opens a steam valve that sprays steam on the man, he falls through a railing, dangles over a grape crushing machine, and the woman holds him; he then falls, and yells as we hear crunching and the machine whirring in a labored fashion (we see a bloody and severed arm and intestines among grapes in the machine). We hear gunfire in a hallway and later see two dead men with bloody wounds in a bathroom while three other men are cutting their bodies into pieces; we later see a man’s hand being cut off (we see the blade cut through the wrist), placed on a serving tray and three men spit on it before sending it to another man as a message.
► Men with guns and DEA agents exchange gunfire and several people are shot with some blood shown; we later see a severed finger with blood on it pulled out of a woman’s hair. A man and a young man are bound and held at gunpoint, and a woman fights with the gunman, bites him and points the gun at him. A man tells a woman that he poisoned her drink and that it is traveling to her heart and she will stop breathing soon; she panics and falls to the floor gasping, then the man gasps and falls back on a bed dead, and the woman vomits on the man’s abdomen (we see goo) and drops her phone in the goo (we see it again). A man charges toward a man and a woman and he is taken away by bodyguards and later shown bound and gagged; one bodyguard slaps him in the face and the other spits in his face.
► A woman slaps another woman across the face. A man grabs a woman’s phone and stomps on it on the ground, shattering it. A man makes a slashing gesture across his throat and asks a woman if she would like him to take care of her unfaithful husband. A man receives a text that reads, “Should we kill them?” from two bodyguards. A man fires a woman when he assumes that she is drunk and she curses at him.
► A woman walks through an area where we see many dead men with bloody wounds and blood on the ground around them; she says, “This means war” and she spits on the ground. A woman and a man argue bitterly in several scenes about the control of a crime family. A woman is told that her father was murdered by a member of a crime family. A woman says that she was hit by a truck when she was 13 and that she has a prosthetic leg. A man is described as a hothead with a horrible temper. A man and a woman make growling sounds at each other. Mourners gather at a funeral and walk through a small village carrying a coffin. A man is shown wearing a neck brace after an attack.
► Several people snort and spit in several scenes and we see some of the goo. Two women stomp on grapes in barrels. A man reaches into his pants, grunts and moans, flatulates and retrieves a vial of liquid (we are told it is poison). A man has a tattoo of a skull with wings on his throat. Staples are shown on a man’s abdominal wound and he says, “They left the bullet in my spleen. Do you want to feel it?” and we see stitches in another man’s leg wound. A severed finger is shown at the bottom of a bottle of wine. People drink rose wine and it is implied that it was made with grapes mashed with a man’s body.

Mafia Mamma LANGUAGE 9

 – About 45 F-words, 2 obscene hand gestures, 5 sexual references, 17 scatological terms, 8 anatomical terms, 10 mild obscenities, name-calling (crazy, desperate woman, cheesy, bastards, idiot, you’re a baby, imbecile, old sad life, pathetic, cretin, stupid American, toxic), exclamations (jackpot, oh my gosh, Mama’s boy), 1 religious profanity (GD), 36 religious exclamations (e.g. God, Jesus, my God, oh my God, Lord in Heaven, oh thank God). | profanity glossary |

Mafia Mamma SUBSTANCE USE

 – People in a boardroom discuss a pharmaceutical that has been banned in the UK, and people in a boardroom discuss aging remedies. A woman drinks a glass of wine, spits it out saying that it is bad, a man and a woman drink wine with a meal and appear drunk, and a man and a woman drink wine with a meal. A man smokes a cigar, and a woman holds a cigar (we do not see her smoke).

Mafia Mamma DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Infidelity, misogyny, insecure men, erectile dysfunction, fantasies, revenge, validation, trust.

Mafia Mamma MESSAGE

 – Don’t let anyone (especially a man) dictate who you are or what you can do.