Parents Guide for
Cruel Intentions (1999) More at IMDbPro »

Sex and sexual manipulation of others is a major theme in this movie. As a result there is a lot of sex and seduction generally, involving mostly older teenagers. Sabotage of sexual and romantic relationships is used as a weapon.

A stepbrother and stepsister are aggressively flirtatious, and often are kissing or physically intimate. They make a bet, with the condition that should the stepsister lose, she will have anal sex with him.

A young man talks with his therapist about sex, flirtatiously.

A young man has sex with a girl, telling her he loves him, and takes nude photographs of her, posting them on the internet.

A female character's virginity is a plot point, and a young man attempts to seduce her to destroy her "virtue". He fails, and ultimately falls in love with her.

A young woman reclines with her top open so that her brassiere is visible, talking about another girl's shapely breasts and buttocks.

A young man tries to seduce a young woman in a swimming pool.

A young man gives a young woman alcoholic drinks, unbeknownst to her, and then has sex with her.

Two young women kiss, as a means of "practicing" for kissing with men.

A football player is alluded to be having sex with another (male) student in secret; the other boy makes jokes and sarcastic sexual references regarding this.

A man and a woman get into an argument; after he leaves, she claims to another man that he hit her.

Two men get into a fistfight in the street. One of them jumps in front of a car to push his love interest out of the path of it. He is struck by the car and dies, but minimal blood is shown.

Many instances of "God", "damn", "shit," "fuck," etc., many sexual insults ("slut", "pervert", "whore", "tramp", "bitch" and so on)

A character is casually using cocaine throughout the film. Her drug used is revealed in the end as part of her public humiliation.

There is some drinking by characters who are in high school, generally of wine and champagne.

A teenage girl is tricked into getting drunk by being given Long Island iced teas (which contain alcohol) and being told they are ordinary iced tea.