Road House | 2024 | R | – 4.8.10

Why is “Road House” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “violence throughout, pervasive language and some nudity.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a fully nude man shown from the waist up and fully nude from the back in a couple of scenes, a passionate kiss, many scenes of men fighting in a UFC ring and in a bar with bloody results, a UFC fight that ends in the death of a fighter, a man snapping another man’s neck, several people being killed by being struck in the head by a boat, a man being eaten by a crocodile, people being stabbed with knives and pointed sticks, a man being struck by a truck and thrown off a bridge, many arguments and insults and over 100 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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A former UFC fighter (Jake Gyllenhaal) with a dark secret takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, not knowing that a wealthy developer, his motorcycle-riding goons and the local corrupt sheriff are dedicated to taking over the establishment by destroying the town if they have to. Also with Daniela Melchior, Conor McGregor, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, B.K. Cannon, Joaquim de Almeida, Post Malone, Lukas Gage, Dominique Columbus, Arturo Castro, JD Pardo, Beau Knapp, Hannah Love Lanier and Kevin Carroll. Directed by Doug Liman. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in Italian without translation. [Running Time: 2:01]

Road House SEX/NUDITY 4

 – A fully nude man climbs down off a balcony as another man yells at him and a woman wearing a robe stands next to him (it is implied that the man was having an affair with the woman that’s with the angry man); we see the man from the front to the waist and from the back fully nude (his bare chest, abdomen, back, buttocks and legs are shown).
► A man and a woman kiss passionately while standing in the sea.
► A man wearing a hospital gown that is open in the back walks away from the camera revealing his partially bare back, his bare buttocks and legs. A man sleeps wearing boxer briefs and a woman wakes him up bringing him food; we see his bare chest, abdomen, shoulders, back and legs and the woman looks at him from behind. A man removes his shirt before a fight (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back). Men fight shirtless in several scenes revealing bare chests, backs and abdomens and several men have extensive tattoos. A woman wears a bikini top and shorts that reveal cleavage, bare abdomen, back and legs to the upper thighs. A woman wears low-cut tops that reveal cleavage in several scenes. Women wearing bikinis dance while holding bottles of beer.

Road House VIOLENCE/GORE 8

 – Two men fight in an extended scene with punches, throws and kicks (they each are shown with bloody wounds and one man dribbles blood from his mouth); one man is held by two other men and he is kicked repeatedly, one man holds the other man in a chokehold, one man stabs the other man using a sharp piece of wood, he holds the wood over the other man’s face while pinning him to the floor, and the second man uses two pieces of wood to stab the other man repeatedly until he falls back on the ground seemingly dead (we see bloody wounds); one man is shown with a swollen eye and blood on his face and body. Several flashbacks show a UFC fight where two men fight with punches, knees, throws and holds until one man lying on the mat is punched repeatedly in the head and we understand that he died. A man snaps a man’s neck and he falls limp to the ground. A man carrying a golf club enters a bar, breaks tables, throws glasses on the floor, hits two young men as they try to approach him, and he tears the wire protective cage around a stage; he then calls for another man that approaches him and they fight in an extended sequence while others in the bar also fight. A man enters a bar with several other men, he yells and throws a table, snaps pool cues over his knee, and threatens people, telling one man, “I’m gonna kill you”; another man goes outside where the first group of men follow him and he fights them leaving them moaning and bloodied on the ground, punching one man repeatedly in the head (we hear he recovers in the hospital) and one man complains of a broken arm.
► Men fight in a bar in many scenes and cause bloody injuries and property damage; they punch and throw each other into tables and a stage surrounded by chicken wire to protect the musicians and one man is pushed into the wire bending it. A man yells at a band about the music they are playing, another man throws a beer bottle at the first man, they argue and fight (one man pulls a knife and another man breaks his fingers). A man with a knife lunges toward another man that punches the first man in the throat; he gasps for air, falls in a swimming pool and is seen floating face down in the water.
► A man points a shotgun at another man, the second man pushes a table toward him, they struggle over the gun and it fires twice, they continue to fight and one man is pushed overboard and into water, where a crocodile speeds toward him and attacks him (we see blood in the water) pulling him away. A man parks his car on a railroad track and a train barrels toward him blaring its horn; he struggles to start the car and manages to pull off the tracks part way, but the back of the car is struck and it spins around (he does not appear to be injured). A man approaches another man outside a fighting establishment and stabs him in the side; we see the knife sticking out, blood on the wound and the injured man later pulls the knife out causing more bleeding. A man is struck by a truck while walking across a bridge, he is struck again causing him to be thrown into the back bed and when the truck crashes through the guardrail, the man slides off the truck and into the water, followed by the truck crashing into the water (the man is shown OK later). Men fight in a ring of people crowded around them and we see punches and knees strikes land and blood on knuckles and faces until one man collapses on the ground and is taken away by two other men. A man prepares to fight another man that protests fighting him, rages and storms out of the area.
► Men tussle at a pool table and two young men break it up and push the men out of the bar. Two men are taken out of a bar in headlocks after fighting. A man head-butts another man in a crowded market and steals his jacket; we see the man walking away wearing the jacket and leaving the market in flames with people scrambling around to put out the fires. A man punches another man in the face and swings a golf club toward him. A man punches another man in the face. A man slaps another man in the face. A woman slaps a man holding a gun on another man in the face. A man grabs a bottle of liquor from a bar and a bartender takes it back; the man is escorted out of the bar and we understand that he is inebriated when another man keeps his car keys. A man wearing a hospital gown throws people in an emergency room around, and we see smears of blood on walls and glass and he leaves the building.
► Two men carrying a gas canister walk toward a bookstore and we later see the store charred and smoldering (we hear that the proprietor and his teen daughter have been taken to the hospital). A man crashes a truck through the wall of a bar. A man blows up a boat tied to a larger boat and we see a man engulfed in flames as he falls off the boat, other people scramble to get off the boat as it sinks and a woman is trapped below deck but manages to get out and surface; two men fight while in the water and one is struck by a smaller boat as it speeds by. A man is taken in a police car to a shipyard, he is taken out of the car at gunpoint and kicked several times while he is on the ground and held at gunpoint (we see him with a bloody face later). A dead body with blue-tinged skin is shown in a large cooler covered with ice. A man knocks a police officer out using the officer’s gun and sets a police boat to speed away from the beach; the man uses the officer’s gun to shoot a dead body and then hits the officer in the head with a branch knocking him unconscious. A man holds onto an anchor rope and is pulled behind a boat. A boat crashes to shore and a man in the boat is thrown onto the roof of a building; we see him injured later. A man grabs another man’s legs causing him to slam his face on a stone floor (we see his bloody nose). A man shoots a spear gun at a man (he dodges the spear).
► A man speeds recklessly through traffic and crashes into trees that drop coconuts on the car. Several men make trouble outside a liquor store and throw bottles in the parking lot; a teen girl with a baseball bat yells at them and tells them to leave (they do when they see a man they fought with before standing behind her). A man climbs down off a balcony as another man yells at him and a woman wearing a robe stands next to him (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details). A man is being shaved by another man using a straight razor on a boat sailing in the ocean and the boat bounces causing the man to get cut by the razor twice (we see some blood). A man throws his cellphone into the ocean and tells another man to go find it.
► A teen girl says that her mother died. We hear that a crocodile ate a dog and the dog’s body was never found; we also hear that a man’s body won’t be found because crocodiles hide their food. A man sleeps in his car until a police officer taps on the window waking him and telling him to leave. We hear that a man’s father is in prison.

Road House LANGUAGE 10

 – About 106 F-words and its derivatives, 32 scatological terms, 24 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, name-calling (rowdy saloon, idiot, something wrong with you, gossipy, dumb, villain, dumb-dumbs, crazy, psycho, maniac, disappointed, complicated, irresponsible, rage-filled, silly, territorial, funny, tough bastard, silly, intrepid), exclamations (yikes, shut-up, I’m sick of this, I’m stumped, come on, what is wrong with you), 7 religious profanities (GD), 12 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus, oh God, God, I swear to God, think you God, God bless, praise the Lord, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Road House SUBSTANCE USE

 – People discuss drug trafficking. Partially empty glasses of beer are cleaned off tables in a bar in a few scenes, men drink bottles of beer on a boat, a man and woman drink bottles of beer on a beach, several bar scenes show people drinking liquor and beer and some are shown to be inebriated, and two men drink glasses of whiskey.

Road House DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – UFC fighting, Florida, corruption, Ernest Hemingway.

Road House MESSAGE

 – Redemption sometimes means resuming your violent ways.