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Coraline
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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

A woman on a stage wears only glitter shaped patches over her nipples and a thong, revealing breasts and buttocks along with bare abdomen, legs and back. A woman on stage wears a mermaid costume that reveals cleavage, bare abdomen, back and arms and a girl in the audience exclaims, "She's practically naked."

Violence & Gore

- A parental figure expresses the desire to take out a child's eyeballs and replace them with buttons. The needle and thread are shown several times.

- A parental figure transforms into a grotesque and frightening figure who threatens a child.

- A parental figure has murdered three small children.

- A child is imprisoned in a dark place with three eerie ghosts.

- We see a boy who has had his mouth sewn with stitches so that he is smiling forcibly, but this is soon remedied.

- A cat kills two rats over the duration of the movie.

- We see a wall covered in real dead dogs stuffed with sawdust, but with angel clothing on.

- A cat rips a parental figure's button eyes off.

Profanity

1 mild scatological term, name-calling (mangy thing, fuss pot, selfish brat, witch, jerk-wad, creep, crazy, dingbats, wuss-puss, blind as a bat), 2 religious exclamations.

None.

The Other Mother can be frightening no matter what form she is in, due to the fact that she has buttons for eyes.

There are many "jump" moments.

Smaller children may get uneasy when the Other world is turned into a scary demonic place.

The Other Mother screams in a very loud manner which could scare many younger children.

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MPAA:
Rated PG for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor.
Certification:
USA:PG (certificate #45001) / UK:PG / Finland:K-7 / Ireland:PG / Brazil:Livre / Portugal:M/6 (Qualidade) / Argentina:13 / Peru:PT / South Korea:All / Hong Kong:IIA / Mexico:A / Netherlands:6 / Sweden:11 / Iceland:L / Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) / Canada:G (Quebec) / Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) / New Zealand:PG / Singapore:PG / France:U / Australia:PG / Japan:G

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