The Sleepover | 2020 | TV-PG | – 1.4.4

Why is “The Sleepover” rated TV-PG? The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board rating indicates that “this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a couple of cleavage revealing outfits, a couple of scenes of robbery, several scenes that include threats with knives and guns and a few fistfights, a few chases in cars and a boat and other risky activities, bullying and arguments and some moderate language and name-calling. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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During a sleepover, a brother and sister (Maxwell Simkins and Sadie Stanley) discover that their overprotective mom (Malin Åkerman) was once a high-level thief and is now in the witness protection program. When she is abducted, along with their dad (Ken Marino), and forced to pull a last job, they are determined to save them. Also with Cree Cicchino, Lucas Jay, Karla Souza, Joe Manganiello, Enuka Okuma and Erik Griffin. Directed by Trish Sie. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in French without translation. [Running Time: 1:42]

The Sleepover SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A man kisses a woman’s hand. A man hugs a woman. A preteen boy tries to look up the skirt of a teen girl, unsuccessfully.
► Two teen girls wear skin-tight mid-thigh length shorts and one of the girls wears a mid-thigh length miniskirt in another scene. Women wear strapless gowns that reveal bare shoulders and arms (no cleavage) in a few special event scenes. A woman wears a clingy off the shoulder gown (cleavage is visible) and is slit to the top of the thigh on one side (her bare thigh is visible); she later rips off the skirt above the knees.

The Sleepover VIOLENCE/GORE 4

 – A man and a woman break into a home, threaten a woman and hold a knife to a man’s neck; the threatened woman hits the first man with framed pictures and throws things at him with a plate hitting him in the crotch and he grunts, and he injects a sedative drug into the woman’s neck, as well as into a dog’s neck, and both fall unconscious; the first couple then kidnaps the second couple.
► A man, a married couple, two teen girls and two preteen boys are seen in a penthouse apartment where the first man announces that he is a thieving syndicate leader and his girlfriend walks in pointing a pistol at the children until the married man tosses a giant spider into the face of the gun-toting woman, who gasps and a fistfight begins between the two women: one hits the other with a bowl of meatballs, a metal lamp, a rock, and the women punch and kick each other (there’s no blood), until one man shoots the chain from a chandelier that knocks the gun-toting woman unconscious and the first man rushes away with a priceless crown.
► Two men and a woman are handcuffed into chairs and one captive man kicks at the other captive man and slides him into a captor, knocking him down as the two chairs break apart; a slow motion fistfight occurs between the first man and the captor with a few punches and kicks but no blood, and one man is knocked out and the captives escape.
► A man and a woman argue on a path and another man runs out of a cabin, holding a ball bat as a woman points a pistol at the first couple and later tells the others that they will cooperate to poison a queen just enough to sicken her and steal her jeweled crown; they all argue and the gun-woman points her gun at the others to end the argument.
► A woman punches a man unconscious in a hallway, throws a second man to the floor, she pulls a flagpole from a flag, a man picks up the flag, and they each use the parts as weapons for striking and tripping several men, who fall down; a table and some chairs fall with loud crashing and we see a few kicks and body slams that cause loud thuds as men fall.
► A family of adults and children steal an SUV and a preteen boy inside fires a laser pen that breaks a side window and blows up three parked cars (no one is hurt); the SUV chases another car, screeching tires and speeding around turns in streets at night and a teen girl in the pursuit car says, “We’re all gonna die,” as both vehicles crash through a line of water-filled barrels and stop; one man limps away and another man runs after him, grabs his belt until the thief stops, and a woman kicks the man hard in the face.
► A man enters a home where he finds two teen girls and two preteen boys; one of the boys jumps at him with a toy sword that lights up and throws it at him and then hits and kicks him and we see the man tied into a chair with a string of Christmas lights and a garden hose and wearing a sleep mask over his eyes; the man later falls with the chair to a point off-screen and we hear a thud. A man carrying a stolen object is kicked and the object nearly falls into a river but is caught by a teen girl that is held by one of her legs so she will not fall into the water.
► Two teen girls and two preteen boys find a storage unit with two secret rooms inside; one room is full of cases of weapons that include handcuffs, staffs, spikes, pistols, ammunition, laser pens and laser rifles. A boy falls into a secret room and is raised on a platform on a very expensive car, he accidentally uses a laser pen to slash a red line into a wall and four teens get into the car with one teen girl driving without a license, but one of the boys presses a button called “Predator Mode,” the girl screams, and the car drives fast by itself. Four young people break into a building through an unlocked window, and find a secret room with dark stairs leading to a tunnel where a woman stops them, grabs one boy, slams him face-down into a tabletop (he is unharmed) and when she walks away, a teen girl handcuffs her to a pipe on the wall and the woman says to the girl, “I will find you and kill you.”
► Two teen girls and two preteen boys ride on a river at night with a teen boy driving a motorboat without a license; a Coast Guard officer shouts at them and the first four children jump into the water wearing life vests, swim to a dock, lie down and gasp for air; they go to a store where they steal dry clothing and a police officer shouts at them from a balcony, but they escape on a subway to a reception hall where a man inside stops them and they tell him that they are musicians, so he takes them to the stage, where he begins to call the police, but hangs up.
► In front of her son’s friend and another woman, a mother says that her preteen son still wets the bed and wears special nighttime pants fitted with an alarm; a man enters the room and says he still wets the bed sometimes.
► A man touches a poisoned patch on a woman’s hand and puts his hand to his mouth, whereupon he gags and retches several times until he vomits a lot of brown material over himself and the long skirts of two women and the tuxedo of a man nearby (we see goo); in the backseat of a car, the man burps loudly, flatulates for several seconds twice, and rolls down a window as he complains about a bad smell.
► A man rubs his rear end (clothed, in vomit-covered trousers) over the leather seat of a chair and sneers at a man who is mocking him (we don’t see vomit being transferred to the chair). A man is taken away by guards at an event and searched off-screen; when he returns, another man asks how the body cavity search went, and the searched man says “fine.” A preteen boy in a tunnel runs into a huge spider web and makes spitting noises, but we see no spit. Another preteen boy complains of being allergic to several things.
► Two teen boys follow a preteen boy into a hall, filming him on a smartphone and mocking him when a woman stops them and threatens the older boys with stalking their families at night and cutting their parents’ car brake lines; the bullies walk away quickly. A preteen boy becomes upset that a dog won’t awaken after it is injected with a sedative (later, the dog is fine). A teen girl hits her head on an open locker door. A man knocks a large vase off a stand at a reception and it crashes loudly and breaks.
► A small group of high school mean girls mocks another teen girl for being good at playing the cello. A teen girl mocks her pastry chef father for exercising his fingers. A teen girl argues with her mother a few times and argues with another teen girl several times. Two men argue sarcastically in a few scenes. A man and a woman argue briefly. A preteen boy and a teen girl argue in several scenes. Two teen boys mock a preteen boy for dancing in a school restroom, where we see four clean urinals and hear a toilet flush off-screen.
► Two preteen boys sleep out in a tent in a backyard where they start to tell a ghost story and scream when a teen girl pokes her head inside the tent. Two preteen boys play a video game and we see only a close-up of a ray gun being fired.

The Sleepover LANGUAGE 4

 – 8 scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, 4 mild obscenities and exclamations, name-calling (crazy, cray, insane, weird, nerd meatball, tattletale, loser, perv, pathetic, sad, freak, gross, hobo’s butler, big fat lying smugglers, Frankie Fromage, Popeye, General, Strawberry Shortcake, Satan), exclamations (shut-ups, jeez, oh my gosh, whoa, whoo-hoo, eww, phew, uh-oh, arghhh), 31 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, Oh God, My God, Oh Lord, Heaven Knows). | profanity glossary |

The Sleepover SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman and a dog are both injected with a sedative, and a man asks another man if he smuggles drugs and the second man answers that he only smuggles jewels. Two teen girls at a party hold cans of beer but do not drink.

The Sleepover DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Secrets, the federal witness protection program, crime rings, the black market, threats, kidnapping, greed, double-crossing, driving without a license, problem-solving, teamwork, cooperation, courage, helping others, honesty, trust, respect, family, love, relationships.

The Sleepover MESSAGE

 – Some people have unexpected secrets in their past.