Parents Guide for
"Brideshead Revisited" (1981) More at IMDbPro »

Charles' and Sebastian's backsides are seen after they are sunbathing.

Charles' backside is seen again at the end of a shower.

Sebastian is seen in a bathtub but nothing below the shoulders is shown.

At a party, a naked man walks by and is seen from the side.

Celia is seen in a bathtub but nothing below her neck is shown.

Charles and Julia are seen having sex but the props hide everything except one breast.

There is a major debate as many people insist Charles and Sebastian had a homosexual relationship however, the story does not say this. (The people who argue this are the same ones who insist Frodo and Samwise were gay or that David and Jonathan of the Bible were gay). However, the story does more clearly indicate that Anthony and Kirk were gay and that Sebastian did tend to gravitate toward relationships with homosexuals.

Mulcaster gets Charles a job in security as the war approaches. There is one scene of Mulcaster trying to break up a riot that gets out of hand and Mulcaster is hit in the head with a cabbage but this scene is played almost comedically for slap-stick and isn't very violent.

Very mild profanity. The main characters are civilized aristocrats who are not in the habit of vulgarity.

Since one of the major themes of the movie is how Sebastian falls deeper and deeper into alcoholism and his life is falling apart because of it, there is a tremendous amount of drinking throughout. Sebastian even has an accident while driving drunk. This story is good at illustrating the dangers of too much drink.

There is also a lot of smoking throughout but the smoking is because this is a period movie set in a time when they had no idea smoking was bad.

No frightening or intense scenes