Quiz Lady | 2023 | R | – 3.3.5

Why is “Quiz Lady” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “some drug use and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes discussion of methods of raising money including selling one’s eggs, non-sexual male nudity, a woman being pushed into a car trunk, several dogs being kidnapped and held for ransom, a few physical altercations without evident injuries, many arguments, a couple of scenes of drug use, and at least 1 F-word and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A lifelong game show fan and accountant (Awkwafina) must work with her flighty sister (Sandra Oh) to help pay off their mother’s huge gambling debts; and when their dog is kidnapped by the bookie, they drive to Philadelphia to enter a famous game show to try to win cash and prizes. Also with Holland Taylor, Will Ferrell, Jason Schwartzman, Tawny Newsome, Jon Park, Camrus Johnson, Angela Timbur, Tony Hale and Paul Reubens. Directed by Jessica Yu. [Running Time: 1:39]

Quiz Lady SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A nude man on TV dances while a computerized blue circle covers his genitals, abdomen and hips. Several women wear crop tops that bare cleavage and abdomens, and some of the women wear short-shorts and miniskirts. A man wears knee-length shorts and is shirtless (we see his bare chest and abdomen). A woman wears a tight long-sleeved dress that reveals cleavage, partial abdomen and her legs to the mid-thigh.
► While on the phone a man says he is a sexual cannibal, but does not give an explanation; a woman hangs up on him. A woman considers selling her own eggs for cash to help pay her mother’s debts; she does not do so.

Quiz Lady VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A woman grabs another woman, pushes her into a car trunk, and drives away as the victim shouts and breaks through the back seat to grab the second woman; the car swerves on an empty road as both women scream and the car stops, without injuries. A woman stands on a bar and something hits the big screen TV behind her causing it to drop with a thud and the scene cuts to the woman in a corner of an emergency room with her dislocated lower arm and hand flopping around and an ice pack on her shoulder; a doctor pulls the lower arm, it cracks loudly, and her hand is fixed.
► A woman walks into a dog rescue facility and demands her dog back, a man grabs her around the shoulders and throat, she screams and tells onlookers that the owner of the business is far behind in his rent, she is released and takes her dog back, running outside and accidentally releasing other dogs.
► A woman screams outside a nursing home automatic door and pounds on the glass, thinking her mother is dead, but calms down when she learns the woman is fine. A man stops a woman in the street and tells her that her elderly mother owes him $80,000 and it needs to be paid, and that he kidnapped the woman’s dog for ransom.
► Two women argue. We hear that a man was keeping unclaimed dogs for ransom and pampering them; he whines after a woman takes her dog back, saying the dog is really his now. We hear that a man died by falling off a cruise ship and drowning. A woman constantly berates a younger woman who lives next door. Two women have several long arguments throughout, sometimes screaming at each other. A woman argues with an older woman over the phone. A woman and a man argue briefly. A woman shouts at coworkers for disrespecting her by talking loudly and eating right next to her desk when she is on the phone. A man who lost a TV game show contest berates and shouts at the MC, who tells him to buzz off.
► A woman swallows several pills from a bottle and hallucinates that she is in a bubble where small clouds talk and the sun laughs while grass and flowers grow in the floor amid a cloud of butterflies. After a woman takes a pill, she sees a dark background and many small yellow fires burning with a woman’s face in the shadows talking in a deep voice and when she begins to recover, she slurs her words a few times.
► A woman eats a small bag of chips too fast and begins eating the bag but spits it out. A woman in a restaurant throws a roll into the back of another woman across the room and a brief argument occurs. A woman in a restaurant chokes on a bone and receives the Heimlich maneuver while screaming, and we see no food pop out but she is fine; a voiceover says she won a big settlement from the restaurant company. A flashback includes a woman beginning to pull down her trousers while a voiceover says she defecated in a hole in the ground and buried it; later in the flashback, her sister takes the blame to save her from embarrassment and friends react only by saying “Eww.” A teen girl in a flashback kicks over a tall display of ketchup bottles in a museum and we hear a loud crash (no breakage is shown). A dog flatulates for several seconds. A woman sweats heavily and her sweater is wet under the arms.

Quiz Lady LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 2 obscene hand gestures, 11 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 3 mild obscenities , name-calling (stupid, weird, dumb, goofy, loser, idiots, imbecile, pathetic, jerk, monsters, selfish, reckless, boring old man, racist, grifter, cheap gimmick, Ben Franklin, Mr. Choochie, Satan, Father Time, Mr. Big Pharma), exclamations (suck, gosh, eww, whoa, whoo, shut-up), 5 religious profanities (GD), 33 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, oh God, Holy [scatological term deleted], Godspeed, Bless you). | profanity glossary |

Quiz Lady SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman asks another woman if she wants a drug for anxiety and brings out a large tote containing plastic bags and bottles of various pills and a bag of white powder that the other woman says may be cocaine, a woman swallows several pills from a bottle and hallucinates that she is in a bubble where small clouds talk and the sun laughs while grass and flowers grow in the floor amid a cloud of butterflies, a woman takes a pill and sees a dark background and many small yellow fires burning and a woman’s face in the shadows talking with a deep voice and when she begins to recover she slurs her words a few times, we hear that a man was vaping drugs, and a man vapes in a hallway and coughs. Five men sit at a restaurant table and sip from bottles of beer, a woman in another scene says that her “Mom was on a bender,” and a man in a restaurant sits with a beer bottle and a woman sits next to him with a glass of beer (no one drinks).

Quiz Lady DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Addictions, dysfunctional families, sisters, gambling debts, game shows, communication, lies, social media, making amends, gaining self-esteem, teamwork, winning, everyday heroes.

Quiz Lady MESSAGE

 – Solving problems can bring estranged family members together, improve relationships, and build self-esteem.