Parents Guide for
Goodfellas (1990) More at IMDbPro »

Rated R for strong graphic violence, pervasive strong language, drug use, and sexuality.

4/10

A man and a woman kiss; the camera pans across their bodies as we see them caress one another (we see part of the woman's bare breast through her nightgown), sex is implied

There are two scenes of implied oral sex; a woman lowers herself to her knees in front of a man's crotch and another scene where a man is pushing a woman's head into his crotch, but this scene is very quick and is easily unnoticeable

A close up of a woman hiding a gun in her panties

Some sexual references including characters saying the phrase "busting my balls" many times throughout the film

A man jokingly says "Go f--k your mother!," twice

A woman asks a man if he wants to "f--k" her

Lots of crude sexual jokes

10/10

An injured man laying in the trunk of a car is stabbed several times and then shot to death.

A man who has been shot runs for help; his clothes are stained with blood.

A man is shot in the back of the head; blood sprays out of his head before he falls onto the floor where he lies in a pool of his own blood.

A man is beaten by two other men; he is punched in the face repeatedly until he is bloody.

A man is beaten almost to death by two men, one beats him with the butt of a gun and the victim's blood squirts onto face and clothes while the other kicks him repeatedly. There is a quick shot of his bloody face. This is the most graphic scene in the movie

Two bloody dead bodies are seen in a garbage truck as it's load is moving around.

A man is shot in the back of the head; blood splatters all over the room he was in and he flops to the ground. He is then shot three more times and his body is seen with bloody bullet holes and blood leaking out of them

A man is shot in the foot, with a graphic bloody wound visible later; the same man is later shot in the chest repeatedly until he is dead.

A man is hit in the face repeatedly; he is very bloody and bruised after this.

A man's face gets slammed against the dashboard of a car while he also get repeatedly punched in the face and the same man is then threatened to be fed to the lions at a zoo and you see a close up of his very bloody face.

A dead man is shown hanging by his neck on a meat hook in a refrigerated meat locker in the back of an 18-wheeler.

A man gets stabbed in the back of the throat with an ice pick and blood trickles out of the back of his neck.

Two bloody dead bodies are seen in a car. Both their throats have been slit and their blood sprayed all over the car window

A man is threatened to be put in an oven.

There is some domestic abuse where Henry's wife threatens to shoot him.

A man repeatedly pistol whips another man and he man's nose practically breaks off.

10/10

There are exactly 300 uses of the f-word, numerous other profanities like the s-word are also used frequently, 2 uses of the n-word as well 3 derogatory terms for Italians and 2 for the Irish (mi%k), 2 uses of "c-cksucker", 1 use of fag, about 2 uses of "d-ck", 1 use of jerk-off (used as an insult, not the action), and several religious profanities.

8/10

A man makes money by selling drugs.

A man and women mix cocaine to be sold, the cocaine is showed being mixed and measured, there are many tools used to mix the drug.

Characters snort cocaine in several scenes.

When police arrest her husband, a woman starts flushing all of his bags of cocaine down the toilet.

Many scenes in which characters consume alcohol and smoke excessively.

The second half of the film revolves around the deterioration of the protagonist as a result of cocaine, therefore the references are strong and regular. The portrayal of drug use is very negative throughout.

7/10

The violence in the movie has the official and infamous reputation of being very brutal, frightening, and intense.

Tommy DeVito is a ruthless psychopathic mobster who kills people as if they were nothing (usually when people criticize him); this can be seen in a scene where he shoots a defenseless waiter in the chest repeatedly.

The opening scene may disturb some viewers as it shows a gangster in a trunk with his face bloodied and begging not be killed. He is stabbed repeatedly with a large knife and then shot four times.

Total Parental Guide Content: 39/50

GoodFellas is a very brutal and cold film. It is however a masterpiece of film. So, with those in mind, this film should be ok for people 15 and up.