Parents guide

A boy reads from a book talking about a donkey. The book uses the word *ss. He reads "mount the *ss" and the class laughs.

An entire plotline is a romance between the main character and a girl, both 9 years old. They hold hands, meet alone, and spend all their time together.

A baby is seen fully nude in a photograph, A young boy is seen bare-chested

No Sex. No Nudity.

A man tells a boy that he "Might even meet a girl

A kid is bullied, shoved and pushed around a few times. A man also strikes a dog hard enough that he may or may not live.

A young boy opens a gift and thinks that it's a pocketknife, the woman reassures his father that its only fingernail clippers and she tells the boy "It does have a blade though

A young boy hits another young boy in the face with a football

A man says that another mans son had returned home from war "In a box (implying that he died)

The skull of an animal is seen

A narrator says that their was a war going on during his childhood, A narrator says that as a child he was a "Target for the neighborhood bullies"

A mans says that his dad was a war veteran and that he lost his leg during a battle

A boy says that another young boy can stick his head in a dog's mouth, A boys says that a young boy "Still wets his pants

A dog jumps onto the edge of a toilet seat and begins to drink from it

Willie (the dog's boy owner) strikes the dog in anger once, but feels remorse after.

5 uses of hell 4 uses of damn 1 paired with god 2 uses of ass

2 anatomical terms, name-calling (goofball, titty-baby), 1 exclamation (shoot), A man hands a young boy a book and says "There's cussing in it. 5 uses of hell, 3 uses of damn

There are about 4 smoking scenes (all from cigars or with a pipe) and 3 drinking scenes.

A man and a woman smoke a cigar. There is childhood use of chewing tobacco on the part of one character, mostly in the first half of the movie

Making Willie pass an initiation test of sorts, some bullies have Willie spend the night in the old cemetery (after telling him about a witch who's buried there) while some lighting flashes. Later, that night (and as some scary music plays), Willie sees some images moving through some light and fog/smoke.