Apocalypse Now: parents' guide

Soldiers are shot, blown apart and speared. Panicked soldiers machine-gun civilians on a boat, then a wounded woman is shot dead. A severed head is dropped in a man's lap, a man is hacked to death, and a real water buffalo is slaughtered on camera.

Frequent f-words and motherf-, plus s-words, cocksucker and at least one c-word. Soldiers call the Vietnamese gooks and slopes, and a Black soldier uses the n-word.

Playboy Playmates dance provocatively for screaming troops, and pinup magazines show bare breasts. There is nonsexual full-frontal male nudity, and one scene shows a nude woman moving around a bed where a man lies. The Redux version adds soldiers undressing Playmates, with sex implied.

A young soldier takes LSD and is visibly high during a battle, and others smoke marijuana. The captain drinks himself into a stupor alone in a Saigon hotel room, and nearly everyone smokes cigarettes.

Dread builds toward a compound strewn with corpses, hanging bodies and severed heads. A drunken breakdown, a sudden tiger attack, chaotic night firefights and the final killing make it disturbing throughout.