Drive My Car: parents' guide

Little on screen: a minor car crash, a shirt grab in a bar, and a pistol fired in a play rehearsal. A fatal beating happens offscreen. A story told aloud describes a girl fighting off an attempted rape by stabbing the man to death with a pen.

Almost none in the subtitles: Plugged In found only two uses of 'damn,' both in lines from the play being staged. The talk about sex is frank but not crude.

Several first-act sex scenes show thrusting and an orgasm, with rear and brief breast nudity. Most are between the married couple, but the husband also sees his wife having sex with another man. Her affairs and stories involving masturbation are discussed frankly.

The driver and others smoke cigarettes, and characters drink whiskey and beer in bars. No drunkenness or drug use is noted.

The wife dies suddenly of a brain hemorrhage early on, and her husband finds her body. Grief runs throughout. Characters recall a child's death from pneumonia, a mother killed in a landslide and childhood abuse; lines from the staged play touch on suicide.