Greta | 2019 | R | – 2.6.4

Why is “Greta” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some violence and disturbing images.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few scenes that show women’s cleavage, several scenes of violence that include gunshots as well as violent blows and drugging that result in death and bloody wounds (including a dead dog), social media mining, discussions of abusive parenting, several scenes of people being drugged, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.”

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A woman (Chloë Grace Moretz) finds a handbag left on a New York City subway and returns it to its owner, a widowed French piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert). Having recently lost her mother, the younger woman forms a friendship with the lonely widow but when the widow’s eccentric behavior escalates to obsession, the young woman must find a way to end the toxic relationship and save her own life. Also with Maika Monroe, Zawe Ashton, Colm Feore and Stephen Rea. Directed by Neil Jordan. A few words are spoken in Hungarian without translation. [Running Time: 1:38]

Greta SEX/NUDITY 2

 – A woman in a bathtub is shackled by her wrists to the faucet, revealing partial abdomen and one thigh. Two women wear tights that hug thigh and hip curves. Two women wear low-cut tops that reveal significant cleavage. A woman wears a sports bra that reveals cleavage, abdomen, and later, she wears the same bra under a see-through sweater. A woman wears yoga pants twice that hug the curves of her hips, thighs and legs.
► A woman tells a man that she will dry hump him for a week and he leaves. A woman repeatedly holds the hand of a younger woman she has just, met implying obsession. A woman drugs another woman (please see the Substance Use category for more details) and lies next to her in a bed (both are clothed). A woman tells another woman that she was a lesbian partner with a now-deceased woman for six years and that they were both in AA.

Greta VIOLENCE/GORE 6

 - A man shoots a handgun at a woman four times in succession and misses, all shots penetrating a wall and missing another woman that is gagged and shackled to a bed by the wrists and ankles in another room; the man collapses from being drugged (please see the Substance Use category for more details) and the first woman dances and takes the gun, shooting the man three times off-screen (we see a close-up of his head and face in a body bag as the woman sprinkles blue powder over him and then zips the bag).
► A woman picks up a rolling pin, slams it down on a cookie cutter to severe another woman's finger and then smashes her in the head off-screen with the rolling pin (blood splatters twice as the struck woman gasps loudly and we see blood on a hand and some cookie dough and later see the bloody hand without part of the little finger, covered in blood).
► A woman shackles another woman into a bathtub (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) and then shackles her into a bed, gagging her as well. A woman gets another woman up to learn piano, but hits her hard on the knuckles with a ruler. A woman forces another woman to drink drugged milk (please see the Substance Use category for more details). A woman berates another woman while teaching her French.
► A woman drops and breaks a cup in close-up as we hear pounding and a shackled woman bounces on a bed to signal for help in a nearby room and the first woman collapses on the floor while a third woman searches for the room where she finds and unshackles the woman on the bed; the two women exit the room as they hear a loud record player and one of the women grabs a candlestick for a weapon (she does not use it), another woman grabs one of the women by the throat, collapses unconscious and the other two women place her into a toy chest, lock it and leave (we hear pounding from inside the box as the scene ends).
► A woman opens a chest where another woman has been locked inside and says, "This is a bed of lies" and leaves the lid open, but locks the second woman into the room and pushes a piano against the bolted door; the second woman pounds on windows and the door, breaks a wooden chair against the door and sits on the floor crying. A woman grabs another woman by the throat and we then see the second woman shackled into a bed and gagged. A woman drags a drugged woman on a rug and we see that the woman has put the victim into a toy chest and locked her inside. A woman runs hysterically into a basement, pounds on walls and windows, opens a body bag where a gagged woman is seen inside it, covered in blue powder and she arches her back and gasps.
► A woman follows another woman she has never met, takes photos of her and emails them to the other woman's roommate; the victim runs away at first, then confronts the stalker on a bus, shouting, and finally leaves and a cab almost hits her. A drugged dream sequence shows a woman collapsing after drinking drugged coffee (please see the Substance Use category for more details); another woman is seen in a blurred shot as she helps the other woman outside where a cab driver helps them both into his car and takes them to the second woman's house, where the drugged woman is laid over a couch and falls onto the floor.
► A bound and gagged woman bounces on a bed loudly and grunts in two scenes when she hears voices in the house. A woman wakes up on a couch in her apartment and speaks with her roommate, saying that she does not feel right; she rides down in an elevator that descends and the lights burst loudly, the woman screams and cries and the camera cuts to her inside a toy chest, crying and pounding to get out. A woman is shown tied down to a gurney and loaded into an ambulance as we see flashing lights and hear sirens off-screen.
► A woman argues with her father over the phone. A woman angrily throws her cell phone onto a floor. A woman argues with her roommate in a few scenes and argues loudly with another woman in several scenes, reports her to the police, and requests a restraining order. A woman stands outside another woman's workplace repeatedly, and meets her in her apartment corridor and spits chewing gum into her hair. A woman makes hundreds of phone calls and comes to the restaurant where another woman works, throws a glass of wine onto the floor to break it, and turns a table upside down; other patrons stare as she shouts and screams and charges toward the victim.
► We hear that a deranged widow lures twenty-something aged women to murder by leaving purses on subways with her name and address inside. We see a woman mining Facebook pages, searching for women to lure. A woman finds a closet full of returned purses, and she gasps in fear. A woman tries to leave a house, but finds the door locked from the inside. A woman panics when she cannot find a key and breaks a glass bowl, pieces scattering on the floor. We hear that a woman's mother died. An older woman tells a younger woman that her husband died, her adult daughter moved away, and her dog died. We hear that a woman's daughter committed suicide because of abuse and torture she suffered at the hands of her mother. We see a few scenes in which a woman pretends to talk to her deceased daughter on the telephone.
► A woman gives a dog a bowl of drugged milk (please see the Substance Use category for more details) and we later see the dog curled up on the floor, dead. A close-up in a restaurant shows a knife cutting through a dead fish's pink flesh, with a glass case of dead fish in the background. A woman scrubs a lot of blood from a wooden floor. Ominous loud, campy music accompanies many scenes.

Greta LANGUAGE 4

 - 4 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 7 mild obscenities, name-calling (crazy, insane, creepy, creepiest, pathetic, sucker, superficial, old lady, weird, Cruella), 3 religious profanities (GD), 18 religious exclamations (e.g. Oh My God, God, Thank God, Jesus, Bless Your Heart). | profanity glossary |

Greta SUBSTANCE USE

 - We hear that a former nurse was fired for drug abuse and addiction, characters suffering from blurry vision from being drugged with an unidentified bottle of drops placed into food (including milk for a dog), a close-up shows drops of an unknown drug falling into a cup of coffee and we later hear that the drug is "Rufies," a woman drinks drugged coffee and becomes woozy before collapsing, a woman injects an unknown drug into the cut off stump of her finger (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details), a woman stabs a man in the neck with a hypodermic needle and he collapses, a woman dumps out a purse and we see a blister pack of capsules, and a woman jokes and asks if she just snorted crystal meth (no drugs are seen). A woman carries a bottle of wine into a dining room where we see several large glasses containing wine on tables (no one drinks), a woman drops glasses of wine from a tray twice and we hear one glass break below the frame, a woman sips from glasses of wine, a man drinks from a highball glass at a table in shadows, a bar scene shows several highballs on a bar (no one drinks), men and women hold glasses of wine as they dance, a woman opens a wine bottle with a corkscrew and we hear a loud pop, and two glasses of wine are shown on a dinner table and a woman drinks from one glass.

Greta DISCUSSION TOPICS

 - Facebook predators, serial killers, mental illness, obsessions, traps, psychological games, widows, suicides, danger, fear, captivity, murder, hysteria, escape, survival, self-defense, protection.

Greta MESSAGE

 - Be careful of befriending strangers and sharing your personal information on social media.