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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG for thematic elements and smoking
Certification

Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • At a playground, a little boy is seen having tripped and cries.
  • Anna suffers from asthma, hence coughing and collapsing earlier.
  • Anna trips and falls down some stairs, but never gets hurt.
  • Several people find Anna unconscious with some bruises. Nothing serious.
  • Marnie throws a bed sheet over an old lady, and locks her in a room.
  • Anna tells Marnie about her parents having died.
  • Marnie tells Anna about how the twin maids loved to scare her when she was a child, and how the nanny and the maids threatened to locked her up in a silo. She also tells Anna about how the nanny used to yank her arm and brushed her hair hard.
  • Several people find Anna with high fever, in the middle of a rainy night.

Profanity

  • Anna calls a girl "a fat pig". She later thinks of herself as being ugly, stupid, moody and unpleasant.
  • Other mild language. No swearing.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • In one of Anna's visions, a man can briefly be seen smoking in background.
  • During a party scene, multiple people can be seen smoking and drinking. Later, Anna gets a glass wine, and Marnie jokingly calls her a "drunkard" later.
  • In another scene in the same party, we see again people drinking and smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The movie contains many emotionally intense scenes that may be difficult for some viewers to watch.
  • There are several scenes in which Anna suffers from asthma.
  • The scene in the silo is quite disturbing.
  • Some of Marnie's flashbacks tend to have some dramatic parts.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • When an old lady tells Anna a sad story, there are multiple flashbacks. A man had died due to an illness. A girl and her mother quarrel. A girl and a boy had been killed in a car accident. Also, Anna gets to know that Marnie as an old woman had died several years ago.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a scene in which Anna describes herself as "Ugly, stupid, moody and unpleasant", before dropping to the floor crying.
  • The ending sequence, beginning with an old lady telling Anna the truth about Marnie, is pretty emotional and very moving.

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