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Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves (1990)

Parents guide

Dances with Wolves

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Moderate
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Moderate

Sex & Nudity

Moderate
60 of 156 found this moderate
A man is seen naked from behind before and after bathing in a pond scaring away a native. His buttocks are clearly seen. In the extended edition, additional views of his buttocks are seen, as well as brief partial glances of the very top part of his genitals. Full rear nudity in a scene that lasts about 5 seconds.
A married couple appears to be having sex underneath a blanket in a tepee where other people are sleeping around them (no body parts are explicitly shown). A man watches them for a moment, surprised, before they notice him looking and he turns away.
A man has sex with a woman; no nudity, but woman's bare back is shown as she undresses.
A wife groping her husband, though this occurs just offscreen.
The man squats while defecating. We see his bare hip and side of buttock.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
53 of 88 found this moderate
Sioux hunters ceremonially take a bite out of the hearts of fallen prey.
PG-13 violence type: blood and graphic.
Two or three war sequences, which are intense and can include images of wounded people.
At the very start of the film, a man is about to have his leg amputated. He lies on a cot while two operatives lean over him. Blood is splattered across his shirt. Bloody tools are seen on a rack next to the cot. The wound is shown briefly closeup, and it's graphic.
In the first war sequence, a soldier rides across a battlefield with gunfire all around. The Union regiment charges the Confederates, and there is a major shootout. A Confederate takes aim at the soldier on horseback, but instead the Confederate is shot, and a bloody bullet hole appears on his forehead.
A man is shot several times with arrows, including slightly bloody wounds. Later, he's scalped (offscreen), although we hear tearing flesh, and watch as the Indian who scalped him walks away with a chunk of bloody meat on his hatchet.
Buffalo carcasses are shown bloody and flayed of skin from hunters.
Buffalo are hunted and shot at with arrows.
Two Indian tribes fight in a long battle sequence complete with rifles, arrows and hatchets.
Two men are shot at with arrows, and a man is axed in the back later in the movie.

Profanity

Mild
51 of 82 found this mild
Shit, Goddamn and bitch.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
57 of 75 found this mild
Some pipe smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Moderate
42 of 71 found this moderate
A woman is under a tree cutting herself with a knife (you never see it though but you know). Lots of blood.
Early on, a man commits suicide by shooting himself. This is only heard, but we see him put the gun against his head and start to pull the trigger.
The battle sequences are intense and sometimes bloody.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 13
  • Australia
    • M
  • Belgium
    • KT/EA
  • Brazil
    • 14
  • Bulgaria
    • C
  • Canada
    • PAManitoba
    • 14Nova Scotia
    • AAOntario
    • 13+Quebec
  • Czech Republic
    • 12
  • Denmark
    • 15
  • Egypt
    • Not RatedDVD rating
  • Finland
    • K-16
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 12
  • Hong Kong
    • II
  • Iceland
    • 14original rating
    • 16video rating
  • India
    • U
  • Ireland
    • 15original rating
    • 122009, re-rating
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • PG122019
  • Malaysia
    • U
  • Mexico
    • BDVD rating
  • Netherlands
    • 12
  • New Zealand
    • M
  • Nigeria
    • PG
  • Norway
    • 15
  • Peru
    • 14
  • Philippines
    • PG-13
  • Poland
    • 12self-applied
  • Portugal
    • M/12Qualidade
  • Russia
    • 6+
  • Saudi Arabia
    • PG12
  • Singapore
    • PG
  • South Korea
    • 152002, DVD rating
    • 121991, theatrical rating
    • 181991, video rating
  • Spain
    • A
  • Sweden
    • 15original rating
    • 111991, cut
  • Taiwan
    • 12+
  • Turkey
    • 13+DVD rating
  • United Kingdom
    • 121991, original cinema rating
    • PGPrime Video rating
    • 15video rating
  • United States
    • TV-PGLV, TV rating
    • PG-13certificate #30300
    • PG-131991, certificate #31402, edited version

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