Parents Guide for
A Clockwork Orange (1971) More at IMDbPro »

suggest MPAA rating: R for Disturbing Violent Behavior including a Rape, Aberrant Sexuality, Graphic Nudity and Drug Content - All Involving Teens

Sex/Nudity: 10/10

A major theme of the first half of the movie is a gang of boys (All around 16-17) who commit violence and rape at night. Their leader (the main character who is shown on the poster) particularly likes violence and rape.

A group of boys similar to the previously mentioned gang are forcibly undressing a woman with the intent to gang-rape her. All parts of her body are seen and focused on, but the rape is interrupted, allowing the woman to run away (Still naked).

The main gang invade a home and their leader personally rapes a woman while forcing her husband to watch. The woman is forcibly undressed (Full frontal nudity). The scene cuts away before the actual rape.

The main character walks around his house wearing only brief underwear. His psychologist talks to him while sitting/lying on a bed. During this he suddenly clasps the main character's crotch (The intention being to cause him pain).

The main character sees two girls in a record shop while buying something and takes them to his home and has (Consensual) sex with them. It must be emphasized this scene is fast forwarded VERY fast to fast music and there are no close-ups.

A woman in her 60's exercises wearing a leotard, and her house is filled with sexual art paintings/sculptures, including a large phallic object which the main character touches and hits to irritate the woman, and uses to kill the woman (Albeit unintentionally).

A man strips nude in a prison scene, pubic hair and base of penis visible, a warden checks his rectum. A male prisoner makes a kissing gestures at another man.

A man with no shirt is reclining on cushions with three topless women.

A woman wearing only brief panties walks toward a man, camera lingers on breasts, he reaches out for her breasts but is unable to touch them due to the fact he gets sick when he thinks of sexual things.

A nurse comes out from behind a curtain with her blouse open and breasts revealed, the man beside her has his pants down at his ankles.

Sex is referred to several times as "the old in and out".

At the end there is a fantasized sex scene, in which a nude woman straddles a nude man (Only her breasts shown) as they frolic in snow while a crowd watches.

Rating: 10/10

The movie is not graphically violent, there is almost no blood and there's no gore at all. But it's VERY disturbing and NOT a kids movie.

-There is a scene where the main character cuts the clothes off of a woman until she is full frontally nude while she struggles but is held by one of his gang members and tapes her mouth shut. He is singing "Singing in the Rain'' and wearing a phallic nose extension during the whole scene and takes off his pants, his genitals are partly visible under his shirt hem. Scene cuts away before the actual rape.

-A gang of five young men strips a woman until she is full frontal nude, they are just about to gangrape her when they are interrupted and she manages to escape.

-A young man kills a woman by beating her with a large phallic art object, we see him raise the object and then land it on her face, the camera however cuts away, we hear a scream and it's implied that she died but no blood at all. He is jailed for murder.

-A scene is shown in which a young man thinks about Jesus being beaten by Roman Soldiers and he is one of the soldiers. (The scene is potrayed as a dreamlike state) In the same scene a man's throat is cut; little blood pours out.

-A scene involves two gangs fighting with chains, canes, baseball bats and knives. Several characters are brutally beaten and hospitalized. (The hospitalization is talked about on-screen; however, we do not see them in the hospital). The scene does not involve blood or gore.

-A young man gets hit in the face with a glass milk bottle, he screams "I'm blind". He is later shown with a nasty cut across his nose but his sight is okay.

-Two men are hit in the groin/torso with a cane and shoved into a lake, one of their hands is sliced open by a knife, little blood spills out.

- A gang of four men enter a house and rape a woman while beating and kicking her.

-The Droogs beat up a drunk bum under a bridge for kicks

- A young man grabs a police officer's balls. The officer's colleague punches the young man in the face. This is bloody.

-Several bloody punches to the face in a scene. A man spits into another's face.

-There are quick flashes of a man with fangs and blood coming from them seeping to his chin.

-There are figurines of Jesus Christ that have little spots of painted blood.

-When they are "re-conditioning," a young man is forced to watch several violent/bloody acts on a movie screen with his eyes kept open. Including some footage of Hitler, we don't see all of it.

-A young man jumps out a window, trying to take his life. He is seen later with cast/bandages showing blood stains and bloody stitches.

-In therapy they make a young man watch a video of a nude woman being gangraped, men are shown thrusting. This scene is very strong.

-Several old men assault a young man, beating him with sticks off-screen.

-Two men beat up a man including holding his head under water and beating him with their sticks

-A man slaps a man several times and forces him to the floor where he tells him to lick his shoe

-Four scenes of rape/attempted rape.

- A womans breasts is shown fully nude.

Profanity: 6/10

The "f" word is used twice.

"Shit" is said infrequently while "bastard" and "hell" are used very frequently.

Rating: 5/10

They all drink Milk Plus which is basically milk laced with drugs such as LSD, mescaline, or amphetamines.

When Alex is forced to empty his pockets for the officer, he pulls out a pack of Marlboros. The detective smokes onscreen.

When Alex ends up back at the Authors house, he drinks a glass of wine with his pasta.

At the Ludovico clinic Alex is given an injection of an experimental drug.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: 10/10

A main theme of the movie is about a gang of boys who are obsessed with drugs, rape, and violence and get their thrills doing all of these...they are all under the age of 18

The first 20 minutes or so are very frightening and disturbing.

Alex makes a creepy stare towards the audience during the beginning of the film.

Alex is a very scary, seducing, creepy, disturbing and sadistic individual and is one of the most vicious characters portrayed on film.

The rape scenes will upset viewers.

The scene where Alex is trapped and Beethoven's 9th Symphony is playing may be considered intense to some viewers.

Alex's "reconditioning" is extremly rough (not violent per se, but disturbing)

Total content: 41/50

"A Clockwork Orange" is an extremly disturbing film. It is a classic however, but it is highly recommended that no-one under the age of 16 watches this film.