Parents Guide for
The Goonies (1985) More at IMDbPro »

A preteen boy drops a ceramic statue of a male nude statuette, and the penis breaks off. A few comments are made of inappropriate parts. One of the boys present says it's his mom's favorite part. The boy glues the broken private parts of the statue on upside down, making it appear it has an erection.

A teen boy tricks the Spanish cleaning woman by telling her (in Spanish with English subtitles) that the homeowner's "sexual torture devices" are kept in the attic.

A teen boy positions his rear view mirror to look at a girl's panties up her skirt.

A boy teases a teenager about "makin' it" with a girl and her mom.

A girl wears a very short tennis skirt throughout the film.

A teen boy makes a wish at a wishing well that he will "make it" with a lead female character.

A teen boy and girl kiss.

A preteen boy kisses a teen girl (she thinks he's the teen boy in the dark). She wonders afterward that has braces.

There are several brief glimpses of the tennis girls underwear throughout the film. This is in no way portrayed sexually.

A man pretends to hang himself in order to escape from prison.

A teen driving a car causes another teen on a bike to drive over what looks like a cliff. (He is not seriously hurt.)

A man throws food in the face of a prisoner chained to a wall.

A boy is locked in the trunk of a car with a corpse that has a bullet wound to its head.

A main character has a grotesquely deformed face, purportedly from being dropped by his mother when he was a baby.

A villain threatens to puree a boy's fingers, hand and then arm in a blender. Another villain grabs a child's face and holds a switchblade, suggesting they serve "only tongue."

A boy confesses to knocking his sister down stairs and blaming it on his dog (relating a story--the episode he tells about happened in the past and is not shown).

A boy relates a story about dumping fake vomit from a movie theater balcony onto people below, causing patrons to actually vomit on each other.

Men wrestle/knock heads/try to choke each other.

Adventure and action including chase sequences and adult threats to children with guns and swords.

Human corpses are shown in various states of decomposition, most depicted having died violent deaths.

Children escape death by multiple booby-traps throughout the movie.

A man slips and falls, landing astride a log, hurting his groin.

A boy is sometimes mildly injured by his own inventions. These incidents are played for gags.

Moderate profanity (Sh*t, bullsh*t, holy sh*t, balls, damn, etc.), said multiple times by both children and adults throughout the film.

The s-bomb is edited out in ABC Family airings, though minced oaths replacing the s-bombs are heard in the TBS version.

One boy complains to another about gluing the penis upside down that you'd be "pissing in your faces" if boys were made that way.

While in the back of a car we hear one of the people say "Cut the shit" (It is said very briefly.)

A teen boy plays a trick on a Spanish cleaning woman by telling her (in Spanish with English subtitles) that she needs to "always sort the drugs" into the appropriate drawers, citing cocaine, heroin and speed. No characters do or reference doing drugs, though a teen boy makes a reference to "downin' some brews".

A dead body continuously falls on top of a child, who is trapped in a freezer. Numerous skeletons discovered during movie, including one with daggers in its eye sockets.

A man threatens to puree a child's fingers in a blender if he doesn't confess his knowledge of his friends' whereabouts.

A character with a misshapen monstrous face is chained to a wall and is startling when first seen, screaming.

The image of Sloth may scare younger audiences