Southern Comfort (1981) Poster

Parents Guide

Add to guide
Showing all 24 items

Certification

Edit
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man says that a bear trap looks like a "steel p***y". Another man asks in return, "What kind of women do you sleep with?"
  • Near the beginning of the film, a character asks around if the men of the squadron want to visit prostitutes. The conversation lasts a couple of minutes.
  • None.

Violence & Gore

  • You see a pig getting shot, then its throat gets sliced.
  • You see a man disembowling an already dead pig.
  • A man is stabbed in the groin.
  • A man is shot in the shoulder, falls down.

Profanity

  • 33 uses of "f**k" (3 paired with "mother"), 28 uses of "shit", 33 uses of "damn" (23 paired with "God"), 31 uses of 'hell", 14 uses of "ass" (6 paired with "hole"), 11 uses of "bitch", 5 uses of "bastard", 5 uses of "Jesus Christ", 2 uses of "cocksucker", and 1 use of "pussy".
  • Racism.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Soldiers smoke, and Cajun villagers drink beer in celebration.
  • Drugs: Verbal reference
  • Smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Several intense battle scenes occur.
  • Frightening. Deserves the R rating it got.
  • At the end of the movie during the festival, the pig getting shot and slaughtered is real, not a prop, so that will be highly disturbing to anyone who has any empathy toward animal deaths on film.
  • Sevreal intense scenes where the soldiers start to turn on one another.
  • The climax is very intense.
  • The men stalking them are barely seen and come off as very threatening characters.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • Poole is shot in the head graphically.
  • Cribbs is killed by a trap; no blood. A man drowns in quicksand.
  • Reece is stabbed by Hardin. No blood.
  • Casper is shot three times. Some blood.
  • Simms is shot in the side. Some blood.
  • Bowden is hanged.

See also

Taglines | Plot Summary | Synopsis | Plot Keywords


Recently Viewed