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A Quiet Place: Day One | 2024 | PG-13 | – 1.5.5
Why is “A Quiet Place: Day One” rated PG-13? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “terror and violent content/bloody images.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes many thunderous waves of monsters charging through city streets and attacking people, several people being pulled into the air or off-screen by unseen monsters, people trying to move through a city silently, a couple of arguments, discussions of death and dying, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.
In this prequel to the “Quiet Place” franchise the destruction of civilization begins when alien monsters attack New York City while a woman (Lupita Nyong’o) and her cat try to make their way to Harlem for one more pizza. Also with Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff and Djimon Hounsou. Directed by Michael Sarnoski. [Running Time: 1:40]
A Quiet Place: Day One SEX/NUDITY 1
– A man and a woman embrace while in a street.
► A woman undresses and we see her bare back to the waist.
A Quiet Place: Day One VIOLENCE/GORE 5
– A woman walks through a thick cloud of dust on a city sidewalk and is bumped into by someone, then someone else is dragged off-screen by something unseen, and another person is pulled into the air by something unseen as we hear people screaming. A group of people on a bus move toward the back of the bus and watch as something falls from the sky; an explosion blows the back of the bus up and glass and dust are thrown around the cabin as one woman makes her way out and onto the sidewalk. Two people hide behind a car while monsters attack people around them; we see a shape through thick dust and an ambulance speeds by, crashes and explodes, and a woman is thrown back against a window and knocked unconscious.
► A man has a panic attack, yells and cries loudly saying, “We’re all gonna die”; another man presses his hand over his mouth to quiet him, but the man won’t settle down and the second man slams the man’s head against a wall killing him.
► A man and a woman wade through a flooded subway tunnel to evade monsters chasing them; one monster swims toward them and tries to grab their feet before it drowns and sinks underwater. Many people walk silently through a bombed out city and we see some limping and others being helped to walk and they are covered with dust; monsters drop into the crowds and attack people, they panic and run, a woman is knocked to the ground and is kicked by others (we see her with blood on her face); a car is flipped over, a woman crawls underneath another car and a man grabs her legs pleading for help before being pulled away by a monster, the tires on the car are flattened and the woman is pinned under it but manages to free herself and get away. A generator starts and makes a loud sound in a building, a man rushes to turn it off and manages to without incident until his shirt is caught on the machinery and tears and a monster lunges out of the shadows and snatches the man; we see the monster’s mouth filled with many sharp teeth and hear it screech. A man moving on a crossbeam makes a sound, a monster approaches him, opens a flap on its head to expose fleshy material and we hear muffled sounds before it turns away and leaves.
► Many monsters charge through city streets creating a loud rumble and causing buildings to crumble and rubble to fall; a woman hides in a stairwell and part of a fire escape collapses, nearly crushing her. A loud sound startles a cat and it runs away from a woman, it walks through a bombed-out lobby and touches a small bell causing it to ring and a monster crashes through the door, prowls among dead bodies on the floor (we see some blood on the clothing), it nudges one body, opens a covering on its head and leans close to the body, and then bolts back out the door when a loud sound occurs outside. A woman bumps into a cart filled with books and a few fall to the ground making a noise, she and a man run away from monsters that chase them, they run through an office building and the monsters shatter glass windows trying to get to them. A man and woman walk into a subway station where we see bloody body parts strewn around the floor, smears of blood and matter on the walls and a rat eats something from the ground among some blood. A man follows a cat among the rubble of a building and we see what looks like pods covered with membranes; a monster moves around the area and tears one pod open before screeching loudly as many more monsters arrive and begin eating the pods (we see some goo and slime). Many monsters screech and prowl along the banks of a river, a woman creates a distraction and a man runs on a pier chased by many monsters; the man jumps off the pier and lands in the water, and swims to a boat where he is lifted out of the water to safety.
► A woman stands alone in a city street and a monster drops behind her as the scene ends. A woman imagines a monster outside her window and we see its mouth filled with sharp teeth. A man surfaces in water flooding a subway and gasps loudly; he follows a cat and finds a woman that he follows even though she tries to shoo him away. Many abandoned military weapons are shown on a city street.
► A woman walks through a bombed-out city, gathers supplies from a store, opens a cat food can and hides it under her sweater to muffle the sound of the opening metal lid. A young man and a child hide in a fountain and we understand that the sound of the water muffles other sounds. People in a city are ordered to stay off bridges, and we see planes launching explosives into bridges causing them to collapse in flames as people watch in horror.
► A man tries to kick an apartment door open and hurts himself, then kicks it again and it opens. Many people are gathered in a theater after an attack on a city and we see some with bloody wounds. People look up into the sky as streaks of light (like meteorites) fall toward Earth. A woman walks through crowded city streets where we see cars speeding by and hear helicopters overhead and sirens blaring in the distance. A cat chases a mouse in a street and the mouse scampers into a sewer drain.
► A man and woman scream loudly when thunderclaps cover the sound. Several scenes contain helicopters flying overhead with a voice on a loudspeaker announcing shelter in place and evacuation orders. A man tells a woman, “I’m really scared. I don’t want to die.” A man says, “I think the world is ending,” after a woman tells him that she is going to Harlem for pizza during an alien monster attack. A woman and a man argue about needing to leave the city. A woman accuses a man of lying about going to a show in the city when it turns out to be a marionette show. We read that New York City emits 90 decibels of sound. A woman reads a poem about the way a man walks after he has defecated in his pants. A woman tells her cat, “You’re getting fat.” A man reads a poem a woman wrote about wanting more time.
► A marionette inflates a balloon and is lifted off the stage while holding it; the balloon pops and the puppet falls back onto the stage startling the audience and one woman leaves the theater seeming upset. Several people are shown in a hospice care facility and we see some in wheelchairs, others with IVs and one woman is being treated for pain from an unidentified illness.
► A woman sleeps in a church and dreams about her father, then wakes up and vomits (we see goo).
A Quiet Place: Day One LANGUAGE 5
– At least 1 F-word, 8 scatological terms, name-calling (mean, fat), exclamations (calm down). | profanity glossary |
A Quiet Place: Day One SUBSTANCE USE
– A woman removes and re-attaches a transdermal pain medication patch on her abdomen, and a man applies a pain medication patch on a woman’s abdomen. A woman drinks a glass of whiskey in a bar, a man and a woman drink glasses of whiskey in a bar, and glasses of wine and bottles of beer are seen on tables in a bar.
A Quiet Place: Day One DISCUSSION TOPICS
– The death of a parent, terminal illness, hospice care, alien invasions, survival.
A Quiet Place: Day One MESSAGE
– Alien monsters can be hard to escape.
CAVEATS
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