Parents Guide for
Looper (2012) More at IMDbPro »

7/10

At a strip club, we see several female dancers in tight, revealing outfits, coming on and off stage. We see one woman topless for about a half second, her breasts exposed. The women also function as prostitutes for the loopers.

Joe is given a free hour with Susie, one of the dancers. We see her wearing only panties, her breasts are clearly visible throughout the scene. She kisses and caresses Joe, but he isn't in the mood for sex.

It's implied Joe and Sarah have sex. The two begin to passionately kiss and caress and lower onto a bed as the scene cuts. There is no nudity.

8/10

There are plenty of assassinations and gunfights in the movie, and many of them involve some amount of blood. When Joe makes a kill, we see blood and skin briefly fly, leaving a bloody hole in the chest. There is a montage of these kills. Several gunfights show blood splatter onto walls, and one scene shows Old Joe with his face covered in his victims' blood. Violent fistfights take place as well, characters are tazered, beaten, and tackled. One man has his hand smashed by a slamming door, and later, his bandaged hand is smacked with a mallet. A grenade kills a group of guards.

When a looper (old version) escapes, the younger person is captured and tortured to kill the older version, since hurting the younger one will affect the older one. We see an older man running away, when his body begins to disappear, starting with the fingers. By the end, he is missing his hands, feet, and nose, and is then shot in the head. We see a blood soaked table where the implied torture took place.

A man is lifted in the air and in slow motion blood starts spreading out of his body.

We see blood covering a person's face, and later again on a different person.

It's implied a young child is shot and killed. Cid is grazed by a bullet, we see blood on his face.

A man commits suicide by shooting himself. We see blood spray.

8/10

About 29 F-words and its derivatives, 1 obscene hand gesture, 2 sexual references (one painted on a dumpster, 22 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (vagrant, holy terror boss man, idiot, ridiculous, stupid, turkeys, liar, junkie, nut, child mentality, retarded, self absorbed, child mouth, worthless, freak, cowboy), 10 religious profanities, 8 religious exclamations.

7/10

Joe is shown putting drops in his eyes that are implied to be a drug in several scenes (we see him become affected by the drug and he and others act intoxicated), we see syringe near him a couple of times but do not see him injecting himself, Susie places drug drops in Joe's eyes, and a man takes several aspirins.

A man pours himself an alcoholic beverage and drinks it. A man smokes cigarettes in a few scenes, a woman smokes cigarettes in a few scenes, two women smoke cigarettes, a man finds a burning cigarette in his apartment, and a woman pretends to smoke a cigarette.

Also, (young) Joe is shown in withdrawl from the 'eye-drop' substance. The withdrawl looks to be very similar to a Morphine/Heroin/Methadone detoxification.

8/10

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Cid's "tantrums" of psychic power are frightening. His face looks angry and very scary.

The implied death of a young child is sad and intense, as is the ending. When Old Joe talks about his wife and what happened, it is sad and intense.

TOTAL EXPLICIT CONTENT: 38/50. Not suitable for children under 15.