Deep Blue Sea (1999) Poster

(1999)

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MPAA Rated R for graphic shark attacks, and for language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A Man Makes a Reference to a Vibrator.
  • A woman in a wetsuit strips down to her underwear (non sexual)

Violence & Gore

  • Several people die, most of whom are eaten alive by sharks.
  • A man on a stretcher is accidentally dropped from a helicopter, snatched up by a shark and lodged into an underground glass window (he dies, with lots of blood visible).
  • A shark bites into a man, takes him for a vicious swim and then shares him with another shark, eventually getting ripped in half (we see the two sharks munching on him). Very graphic.
  • A shark eats a man, leaving the lower half of the man's body floating in the water, and a shark bites off a man's arm (we see the extremely bloody stub).
  • A woman is lifted out of the water by a shark (we see half of her body in its mouth and she eventually dies).
  • A man shoots a shark with a harpoon and a man, being pulled through the water by a shark, pokes the shark's eye with a cross.
  • A woman slits her hand with a knife (the camera focuses on the blood oozing out) and gets swallowed by a shark (we see the shark chomping on her for a few seconds).
  • Sharks attack a man in a cage and a shark attacks a boat (it knocks a hole in the boat, but no one is injured).
  • We see a shark swallow a live parrot. T
  • Two sharks attack another shark; we see blood and body fragments of the victim shark).
  • A man is underwater and encounters a corpse floating by.
  • A shark eats an electrical cord and dies, a shark explodes (the body splatters to pieces and leaves a large pool of blood) and a room explodes with a shark inside.
  • A helicopter runs into a building, causing numerous explosions and fires.
  • A few people almost drown.
  • A woman probes a shark with a large needle, extracting fluids (the scene is a bit gross).

Profanity

  • Misuse of 'Christ'.
  • 3 Uses of Goddamn
  • 3 F-words, several anatomical and scatological references, many mild obscenities and a few insults. and 1 middle finger

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A main character is an alcoholic.
  • A teenager grabs a beer from a cooler and sips it.
  • A man smokes a cigar for two scenes.
  • A man smokes a cigar.
  • A teen drinks beer on a boat.
  • There are about 4 drinking scenes and 2 smoking scenes. One scene shows a man putting a cigarette in his mouth but doesn't smoke it when a woman looks at him wrong. Another scene shows a man throwing an empty liquor bottle away but not drinking.
  • Drinking and smoking at a birthday party.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Numerous scary "jump" scenes, most of which are surprise shark attacks.
  • It gets very intense whenever the sharks are around.
  • A man's arm is bitten off by a shark and it is very graphic and disturbing. It can be very intense for weaker viewers.

Spoilers

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

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A man's pet parrot is eaten in one gulp by a shark jumping out of the water. This may upset animal lovers.
  • A man is standing on the edge of a pool of water, when a large shark jumps out of the water, and eats him in one bite. Startling, but not really gory; comical rather than scary.

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