Why is “Nonnas” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “suggestive material, language and thematic elements.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several scenes with women showing visible cleavage and touching breasts through clothes, conversations about breasts and whether they are real, some shouting and arguments and people throwing food at each other, scenes with food preparation including a sheep’s head, people drinking and becoming visibly inebriated, and instances of name-calling and obscenities spoken in Italian without translation. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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After the death of his mother, a man (Vince Vaughn) decides to open an Italian restaurant to honor her memory and the importance of family, where all the cooking is done by Italian grandmothers (Lorraine Bracco, Talia Shire, Brenda Vaccaro and Susan Sarandon). Also with Linda Cardellini and Joe Manganiello. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Italian, some with translation and some without. [Running Time: 1:51]

Nonnas SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A man and woman embrace and kiss passionately in a crowded restaurant. A man and woman slow dance, holding each other close; the man tells the woman that she is “the most beautiful and funniest girl at prom.” A man hugs a woman and tells her that she looks terrific. A man brings a woman flowers and another man teases him, saying, “Again? Give her time to miss you!”
► A woman’s breasts bounce as she stirs cream in a mixing bowl and another woman asks how she can bake around “those things,” and she replies, “Practice.” A woman says she got fake breasts after having a double mastectomy, and now her breasts will be “perky forever”; she asks another woman, “What about you?” and the other woman touches her own breasts and the first woman says she was asking about her life story. A woman asks another woman if her breasts are real; the woman says no and encourages her to touch them; the other woman squeezes them and begins to laugh, saying they feel like gummy bears.
► A woman discusses leaving a convent and the great love of her life being another woman; she talks about the pain of not being accepted for who you are and cries; other women comfort her. A man tells his friend about running into a woman they went to high school with; the friend asks if she’s “still hot,” the man says yes and we hear the friend’s wife in the background ask, “Who’s still hot?” A woman tells a man that asking a woman for the secret in a recipe is like asking a woman to “show you her mundate”; he says he doesn’t know what that means and she says he shouldn’t ask. A woman says she loves “all kinds of men,” but thinks being with one man for her whole life would be boring. A woman jokes that if her husband were still alive, she could never be friends with another woman because she’s too attractive and she says of the woman that she’s sexy even when she washes the dishes. A woman jokes that she believes her husband would marry their car if he could and the husband says to his friend that he would.
► Women wear low-cut dresses or tops that reveal cleavage in several scenes. Several women comment on another woman’s visible cleavage and the size of her breasts and how they bounce in a few scenes. A woman wearing a tank top, with visible cleavage, pulls the straps down her shoulders in order to tan and her husband asks if she is trying to “give the neighborhood a show.”

Nonnas VIOLENCE/GORE 2

 – A fire starts in a restaurant kitchen; a man opens an oven and we see flames; he puts the fire out with a fire extinguisher as several women shriek and we later see the fire damage to the oven and wall.
► A woman hits a man on the arm several times; we hear the impact and see him recoil and she shouts at him and accuses him of telling people not to come to her restaurant. Two women fight in a kitchen as they insult each other and struggle over a bottle of olive oil; they throw tomatoes and garlic at each other and other people look on and let them fight, saying it’s the Italian way. A woman shouts at a man and throws dry pasta at him; she calls him the devil in Italian, says he is trying to kill her with his disgusting cooking and he says, “I wanna kill you!” as another man takes her out of the kitchen and tells her she is going to get an assault charge if she keeps abusing the chef; she says she is going to put her foot up his “culo.” Two women insult each other’s hometowns in Italy; they shout at each other and mimic spitting on the floor, saying they are spitting on each other’s hometowns. People argue with raised voices in several scenes. A man’s coworkers call him a “dead man walking,” referring to the fact that he is close to getting fired. A man looks at his wife across the room as she makes a face at him; he asks, “Did my wife just give me the stink eye?”
► A man goes to a news studio in an attempt to talk to a restaurant critic and the critic is dismissive and threatens to call security on the man. Several women worry about a man who has not answered his phone and is late for work; one woman says she hopes he is not hurt and worries he is in the street somewhere with an injured leg and he later appears unharmed.
► People are shown preparing raw meat, including a sheep’s head. During a makeover scene, a woman has her lip waxed and yelps in pain when the tape is removed.

Nonnas LANGUAGE 3

 – Several profanities are spoken in Italian without translation, 5 anatomical terms, 14 mild obscenities, name-calling (marrone, loud mouth, mean, ugly, vulgar, beast, old bag, immature jerk, crazy, putz, bum, idiot, insane), exclamations (shut-up), 1 religious profanity (GD), 11 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, Christ’s sake, crazy son of a saint, Madre Dio, God rest her soul, God bless his soul, bless you, a woman teasingly tells a boy to say the rosary). | profanity glossary |

Nonnas SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink wine and cocktails and shots of liquor in many scenes, people are visibly inebriated in a few scenes (slurring and staggering a bit), a woman says that she got drunk the night before but doesn’t have a hangover because she drank lots of water, and a man talks about drinking before prom when he was a teenager and getting too drunk to go to the dance.

Nonnas DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Grief, death of parents and grandparents, death of spouses, familial estrangement, fear of being who you are, age, debt, following dreams, food, family, Italian heritage, discrimination, fear of outsiders.

Nonnas MESSAGE

 – Food is love, and good food is about family.