Treasure | 2024 | R | – 5.3.5

Why is “Treasure” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes non-sexual partial nudity, an implied sex scene and a couple of kisses and hugs in greeting, discussions of the treatment of people being taken to the Polish death camps and murdered, a tour of Auschwitz, confrontations over property that was taken from people, several arguments, and at least 6 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Based on a true story: A New York journalist (Lena Dunham) travels to 1991 Poland with her father (Stephen Fry), a Holocaust survivor, to visit his childhood town. The trip becomes a test of wills since he resists reliving traumatic memories, while she insists on locating artifacts from their family’s past. Also with Tomasz Wlosok, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Iwona Bielska, Wenanty Nosul, Maria Mamona and Oliver Ewy. Directed by Julia von Heinz. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Polish with English subtitles or translated. [Running Time: 1:52]

Treasure SEX/NUDITY 5

 – A woman lies in a bathtub partially covered by bubbles; her breasts, nipples and abdomen are seen. A woman wears a tight-fitting tank top that reveals cleavage and her nipples through the thin cloth; she reprimands her father when he enters the room without knocking, saying, “I’m not decent,” and wraps herself in a blanket. Several women wear tight-fitting full leotards that reveal cleavage and the outline of their figures and we later see them performing a dance routine for beauty contest judges. A woman wears a low-cut tank top that reveals cleavage.
► Fire alarms ring and people are evacuated from a hotel; we see a man and a woman wearing robes and it is implied that they were having sex.
► Several people hug and kiss in greeting at an airport. Men and women dance together in a hotel bar and one couple embraces and the woman touches the man’s face tenderly.
► A man tells his adult daughter, “I’m sorry for having the sex with Zofia.” A man says that he “sleeps with his wife’s mother” when traveling and makes a remark about saving money that way. A man asks his adult daughter when she last had sex and she is mortified. A man describes a hotel bed being lumpy and says, “It’s good for the sex, but not for the sleeping.”

Treasure VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – Women and children are shown standing behind barbed wire fences. A woman wakes up to insects biting her and crawling on her bed; she swats them and we see some blood on her arm but then realizes that she is imagining them.
► A man yells at his adult daughter telling her that she was taking a risk going to his family’s apartment alone; he says, “Jews were murdered when they went back to their homes.” A woman yells at her father and tells him that she is leaving Poland and returning to New York. A man and his adult daughter argue in many scenes about her wanting to see the places her mother and father grew up and spent their young lives together in Poland before the Nazi occupation and the death camps. We hear that of the 1.3 million Jews that were transported to death camps, 1.1 million of them were murdered by gas chambers, beatings, starvation, or being shot. A man says that he remembers the smell of burning flesh. A man has a flashback to when he and his family were boarded and transported on a train to a death camp and we hear people yelling and children crying. A man refuses to get on a passenger train presumably remembering when he was transported by train to a death camp. A man says, “I hated Germans, not Mercedes.” While touring Auschwitz, a woman describes people dying from the cold and exposure, and a man says that the men that slept near the doors of their barracks were usually dead by morning because of the cold.
► A woman and her father go to an apartment where the man used to live with his family; the people in the apartment plead with them, “Do not take our home from us.” A man becomes upset when he sees items in an apartment where he used to live that belonged to his family. A man and his adult daughter go to a cemetery and the woman picks up trash from around a gravestone; the man says that his family is buried in Auschwitz. A woman says that she needs to urinate and hopes there is a bathroom on a train.
► A man sobs over a coat that belonged to his father. A man digs in the ground and retrieves a box filled with documents and photos. Fire alarms ring and people are evacuated from a hotel; a woman is worried when she cannot find her father, but becomes upset when she realizes that he had been with a woman in her room (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details). A woman is upset when her father asks about her ex-husband and says that her life is a joke. A man tells his adult daughter that he is worried about her; he tells her, “You are 36 and alone. That is not normal.” A man tells his adult daughter that she looks tired and she becomes upset. A woman in a market wants to sell another woman some meat; the woman tells her that she is vegetarian, but the first woman insists that she take the meat and some other items. A woman remembers her mother waking up every night screaming. A woman talks about another woman not being used to being loved and the second woman accuses her father of not being loving. People on an elevator laugh and a woman yells at them asking them what’s so funny; they then snicker at her.
► A woman pokes a needle dipped in ink into her leg (we see liquid and the needle pushing into her flesh) a couple of times. A woman bites her hand and we see teeth marks. A man is shown with a number tattooed on his arm from a death camp. A woman eats a chocolate bar and spits it out in a sink (we see goo).

Treasure LANGUAGE 5

 – About 6 F-words, 5 scatological terms, name-calling (crazy, tired, shocking, liar, selfish, monster, stupid, not-so-normal), exclamations (come on, that’s not nice, are you mad), 7 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, God, oh my God). | profanity glossary |

Treasure SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink alcohol in a few hotel bar scenes, and people drink shots of vodka after being evacuated from a hotel from a fire alarm. A woman smokes a cigarette on a balcony, and women smoke cigarettes in a hotel lobby and a hotel restaurant in a few scenes.

Treasure DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – The Nazi occupation of Poland, the Holocaust, death camps, the extermination of Jews, chaos, order, respect, loneliness, self-harm, memories, Auschwitz, Chopin’s mother, common sense, death of a parent.

Treasure MESSAGE

 – Everyone’s reactions to memories, both good and bad, are different.