Why is “Marty Supreme” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “language throughout, sexual content, some violent content/bloody images and nudity.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several sex scenes between a young man and married women, an unplanned pregnancy, nude photos of women and some non-sexual nudity, a bathtub crashing through a floor and pinning a man’s arm, a couple of gunfire exchanges leaving people dead and injured, a man being stabbed, an explosion, a dog running loose, many arguments and yelling during ping pong matches and about 80 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Set in the 1950s: A young man (Timothée Chalamet), determined to make his name in the international ping pong circuit, will do whatever it takes to succeed, regardless of ethics and propriety. Also with Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Tyler the Creator, George Gervin, Fran Drescher, Kevin O’Leary and Sandra Bernhard. Directed by Josh Safdie. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in Japanese with English subtitles. [Running Time: 2:30]

Marty Supreme SEX/NUDITY 7

 – A married woman goes to a young man’s hotel room and she drops her coat to reveal that she is wearing only undergarments (we see her bare shoulders and cleavage); she straddles the young man on the bed, they kiss and lie back on the bed embracing (sex is implied). A young man and a young woman kiss passionately in a shoe store stockroom; the young man unfastens his pants and lifts the young woman’s skirt tearing her stockings (we see part of her bare thigh) and they have sex with moaning and brief thrusting before the scene changes to a sequence of sperm flooding toward an egg and fertilizing it, with color changes and flashes. A young man and a married woman have sex in a shower and he holds her around the throat before taking off a necklace and dropping it down the drain; the young man lies shirtless in bed later as the woman dresses. A young man and a married woman meet in a park and they kiss passionately; they lie on the ground, kiss and the young man performs oral sex on the woman until the police shine flashlights on them and talk about arresting them until they are offered a bribe.
► A young man and a young woman argue about whether he is the father of the child she is carrying and he denies the possibility. A woman tells a young man that she couldn’t get away from her husband and that he was “all over me.”
► Several men admire a woman as she walks through a hotel lobby. Ping pong players hug after matches in a few scenes.
► An envelope presumably containing money is opened and we see that there are photos of nude women (bare breasts, abdomens and buttocks are seen). A man in a Nazi prison camp opens his shirt to reveal his bare chest and abdomen coated in honey and many other men surround him licking the honey off him. A shirtless man is shown in a hotel room and we see his bare chest, abdomen and back. A man wears a towel around his waist after bathing and we see his bare chest and abdomen. A young man’s bare buttocks are seen as a man hits him with a ping pong paddle.

Marty Supreme VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 – Two men steal gasoline from a closed gas station and other men in a truck surround them, and break a window as they speed away; a dog inside barks angrily, bites one man’s arm and they speed away; the dog jumps out of the car and the gas station explodes in flames. A young man and a woman in a car approach a remote house and the young man knocks on the door trying to retrieve a dog; the owner of the house arrives and goes inside returning with a shotgun, which he shoots into the ground, as the young woman speeds in the car toward the man and hits him; she then speeds away as he shoots out the back window of the car. A young man and a young woman try to extort a man for reward money to return his dog to him; a man approaches a man holding the dog’s lead and stabs the man in the abdomen while another man with a gun chases the young woman. A man standing outside a house is shot through a window and falls dead, gunfire is exchanged between a man in the house and another man outside the house and a bullet breaks a car window and a young woman is struck (we see her bloody shoulder).
► A young man hits a man in the head with a trophy knocking him to the floor with a very bloody head wound. A young woman visits a young man and we see that she has a black eye; it is implied that her husband beat her. A young man holds a gun on another young man trying to get him to give him money that he is owed. A police officer puts handcuffs on a young man and threatens to arrest him; it appears to be a stunt to make a point when another man enters the room and tells the officer it’s ok. A young man climbs down a fire escape and runs away from police; he is chased by an officer in a car and hides in a pet shop. A young man and a married woman meet in a park and they kiss passionately; they lie on the ground, kiss and the young man performs oral sex on the woman until the police shine flashlights on them and talk about arresting them until they are offered a bribe. A man slaps a young man in the face and they argue. Two men argue bitterly and one threatens to pull the other man’s unibrow off his forehead. A man becomes furious, yells, and throws objects around an apartment when his wife tells him that he is not the father of the child she is carrying. A young man is chased by police into an alley where he hides in a dumpster and is later told that he smells bad. A young man sitting in a bathtub crashes through the floor of a hotel and into the room below where a man is bathing his dog; the man’s arm is pinned between the tubs and we see him later with a gaping wound exposing the bone and a lot of blood and the dog runs away (seemingly unharmed). During a theater performance, a man slaps another man in the face and the other man stabs him in the abdomen. A man has tissues stained with blood in his nose and he talks about having had to fight with a man that was not paying for his fare in his taxi. A young man pleads to be able to take part in a promotional opportunity with another man; the other man tells him to drop his pants and lean over a chair and the man strikes the young man several times with a ping pong paddle (we see his buttocks becoming reddened and the young man moans in pain).
► A man says that he will do to his opponent “What the Holocaust couldn’t, I’m gonna finish the job.” A man and a young man argue about the young man becoming manager of a shoe store. A young man argues with his mother about a trip he has to take. A woman calls a young man on the phone, tells him that his mother is very sick, and is going to the hospital (she is not). A young man argues with a man about his accommodations. A man confronts a young man about paying for his dinner in a restaurant and they argue. A woman tells a young man, “I stopped acting before you were born.” A husband and his wife argue in a few scenes. A young man argues with his mother in several scenes. During an argument a young man says, “I can sell shoes to an amputee.” Two men argue about money and expenses for a theater production. A man threatens to take a hammer to a pregnant young woman’s abdomen. We hear that a man lost his hearing in a Tokyo air raid. People remark about a travel ban against the Japanese a few times.
► A young man charges toward a referee and yells when he loses a match; he throws a wastebasket across the area. A young man kicks a wall in an arena when he misses a shot during a ping pong match. Several scenes show men playing ping pong and sweating feverishly as they cross the table to keep the ball in play. Two men play ping pong using cooking pots during a basketball half time show and then on a very small table and finally one man plays against a large walrus and he pretends to miss a shot. A young man breaks a piece of stone off a wall in Cairo and later tells his mother that it is from a pyramid. Two men argue about a bet for a ping pong match and threaten each other. A chair is thrown through a window on a theater set during a performance. A young man is told that the loser of a ping pong match will be forced to kiss a pig; after losing a pig is wheeled out on a stage and the young man becomes upset yelling that the match was a fake and that it was staged for promotional purposes.
► A numeric tattoo is seen on a man’s arm and we are told that he was in Auschwitz; another man says that his son lost his life liberating the man, and the first man describes diffusing bombs for the Nazis. A flashback of a man defusing a bomb in a forest is shown where a man discovers a beehive and removes part of the honeycomb smearing the honey on his chest; he later opens his shirt for the other men in his bunker to lick the honey off him.
► Two young men get out of a slowly moving car and dance on the road next to the car while the car is still moving. A woman is very upset and cries during a party for her and we see people leaving and saying the party is over; she apparently received a bad review of her theater performance. Several women are seen in a maternity ward and one woman has a bandaged gunshot wound in her shoulder.
► A man is shown with a dog that appears to be smeared with feces and other people react to the smell. A plumber pulls a large clump of matted hair out of a shower drain and a diamond necklace is wrapped in it.

Marty Supreme LANGUAGE 10

 – About 80 F-words and its derivatives, 6 sexual references, 32 scatological terms, 15 anatomical terms, 10 mild obscenities, 3 derogatory terms for African-American people, name-calling (liar, dumb, terrible, moronic, fat, greedy Jew, pathetic, crummy, mensch, narcissistic, little table tennis thing, entitled American, fraud, chicken, embarrassment, child, whore, absurd, pathetic, stupidest, disgusting, ridiculous, bozo, hustle, ape, dirty bird, cheap [anatomical term deleted], beneath me, the chosen one), exclamations (for crying out loud, heck, shut-up, make me sick, I don’t care, no second chances, are you kidding me, get a grip, put up or shut-up, mishegoss), 3 religious profanities, 14 religious exclamations (e.g. God knows how long, God, oh God, for God’s sake, for Christ’s sake, Holy [scatological term deleted], Jesus Christ, Jesus). | profanity glossary |

Marty Supreme SUBSTANCE USE

 – A man drinks an alcoholic beverage on an airplane, people drink wine in restaurant scenes, and two men drink beer on an airplane. A woman smokes a cigarette in a restaurant, and a woman smokes a cigarette in a theater dressing room.

Marty Supreme DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Goals, ambition, dreams, paternity, disappointment, pride, shame, dedication, purpose, obligations, sacrifice, responsibility, marketing, promotional stunts, Agatha Christie, Harlem Globetrotters, Moses, vaudeville.

Marty Supreme MESSAGE

 – Some people find it difficult to be happy when they can only focus on themselves.