Night Swim | 2024 | PG-13 | – 3.5.4

Why is “Night Swim” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “terror, some violent content and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, many scenes of people wearing swimsuits in and around a swimming pool, a man cutting his hand in a pool drain, a child being thrashed around by something unseen in a swimming pool, many scenes of people seemingly drowning with some being revived, discussion of sacrifice, sequences with a monstrous being with wrinkled and discolored flesh and glowing eyes in a swimming pool, some discussions of superstition, discussions of MS, several arguments and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A man (Wyatt Russell) dealing with a recent MS diagnosis searches for a way to deal with a new life without his professional baseball career. When he and his family move into a new house with a swimming pool, his improvement seems almost magical, until they discover the sacrifice that is required of them. Also with Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren, Jodi Long, Eddie Martinez, Elijah J. Roberts, Rahnuma Panthaky, Ben Sinclair and Ellie Araiza. Directed by Bryce McGuire. [Running Time: 1:38]

Night Swim SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A husband and his wife kiss in a few scenes and their children complain about seeing them in one scene. A teen boy kisses a teen girl.
► A husband and his wife flirt and he asks her if she still has a black bikini. A teen boy invites a teen girl to a swim club party and they flirt. A teen boy and a teen girl flirt and swim in a pool playing Marco Polo (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► Men, women, and children are shown wearing swimsuits that reveal cleavage, bare abdomens, chests, backs, partial bare buttocks and legs in many scenes. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage.

Night Swim VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A toy boat spins around a swimming pool at night and a young girl tries to retrieve it using the pool net; she is pulled into the water and to the bottom of the pool, she surfaces, the lights flash on and off and when she tries to get out of the pool, something unseen grabs her and she is thrashed back and forth as she screams for help and disappears.
► A woman swims deep under the surface of a swimming pool to find her son who is floating motionless and when she attempts to surface with him, many other people swim around her and try to pull her back toward them; the woman surfaces with the lifeless boy and while doing chest compressions a man approaches her and grabs her around the throat holding her in the air and a teen girl hits the man in the leg and back with a baseball bat to make him let the woman go and the man vomits goo and makes gurgling sounds (we see goo) as the boy revives and gags (we see more goo). A boy swims alone in a pool and dives for coins thrown by someone at the edge of the pool but when he surfaces, no one is there; he hears the voice of a young girl coming from the drain, he pulls an action figure out of the drain (we see it wrapped with hair), and a monster with glowing eyes and a decayed and scaly-looking hand reaches for the boy, grabs him and the boy pulls away. A teen boy and a teen girl flirt and swim in a pool playing Marco Polo, the boy gets out of the pool and the girl swims into the deep end as the lights flicker and she dives under the surface saying “You’re dead,” and when she surfaces again a monster with glowing eyes whispers in her ear and she panics, trying to get out of the water and the monster grabs her foot, but she kicks and gets free.
► A man falls into a swimming pool, gets wrapped up in the cover and ropes and climbs out gasping and coughing as his family comes to help him. A cat sits on a diving board and meows as the lights in a swimming pool flicker and the cat tries to reach a toy boat floating beneath it; we do not see the cat the next day and its collar floats in the pool. Two men play chicken in a swimming pool and one man sinks under the surface of the water gripping the teen boy on his shoulders and pulling him under the boy yells for him to let go; we see the boy later as he is pulled out of the pool coughing and his knees are bruised from the man’s grip, and the man is pulled out and gasps and gags after a woman does chest compressions (the man gags and struggles to breathe and spits out a dark liquid). A boy hears a cat meowing and searches for it in the dark; he climbs on a diving board and reaches toward a float before being pulled into the water by a skeletal-cooking monster with long fingers and glowing eyes; the swimming pool cover begins to extend over the surface as the boy is pulled under and a woman ties a garden hose to the diving board and dives in holding it (to use to breathe). A teen girl slips on a puddle of water and cuts her hand on a shard of glass (we see the shard as she pulls it out and her hand is bloody). A man with glowing eyes and discolored flesh on his face moves toward his teen daughter in a threatening manner, knocks her phone out of her hand when she tries to call for help and slaps her hard in the face; he then grabs the teen by the hair and pulls out a hank of hair when she pulls away from him and slams into a wall. A man walks into a swimming pool and disappears in a cloud of darkened water.
► A woman swims alone at night and thinks that she sees someone standing at the edge of the pool; she stops swimming, the lights flicker and she gets out of the pool. A woman has a nightmare about being underwater in a swimming pool and wakes up with a start. People scream and play in a swimming pool startling a woman. A man reaches into the drain of a swimming pool to clean it out, something in the drain cuts his hand (we see a deep, bloody gash), and he recoils as dark, dirty water bubbles up from the drain. A man swings a baseball bat at a couple of pitches and is unable to hit the ball; he falls to the ground after spinning around but seems unharmed and he bats another pitch high in the air, splitting open the stitches on the ball and it hits field lights shattering the glass. A man showers and he gags and coughs deeply as his veins darken under his skin and dark liquid runs from his eyes.
► A doctor tells a man that his condition (he’s suffering from MS) is worsening and that he should give up on the possibility of going back to playing professional baseball. A woman talks about her father throwing her into a swimming pool when she was young and telling her, “Sink or swim.” A husband tells his wife that he doesn’t want his condition to define their whole life. A teen girl threatens her younger brother that if he tells his mom that she has a friend over while they are away she will put a Tide pod in his aquarium. People talk about a pool being haunted. A woman tells another woman about a young girl drowning in the swimming pool and the woman discovers that many other people also drown in the pool. A woman talks to another woman about something bad in the water (in her swimming pool) and we understand that the other woman’s child drowned in the pool; the woman cries dark-colored tears and dark goo is shown dripping from her nose.
► A woman is shown using oxygen in her home and she increases the flow when she becomes upset. A young boy is shown with oxygen tubes in his nose and monitors beeping.

Night Swim LANGUAGE 4

 – 5 scatological terms, 1 mild obscenity, name-calling (butterfingers, idiot, steroid Shrek), exclamations (sink or swim, oh my gosh, shut-up), 4 religious exclamations (e.g. oh God, God, oh my God). | profanity glossary |

Night Swim SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman brings a rum-spiked cake to a pool party and tells the host that it is not for the children.

Night Swim DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Sacrifice, family, Multiple Sclerosis, professional baseball, anxiety, special ed. Superstition.

Night Swim MESSAGE

 – Everyone is afraid of something.