Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: parents' guide

Very little. In a childhood memory, bullies pressure young Joel into hitting a dead or injured bird with a hammer and then rough him up. An angry wife hits a man, and a couple playfully pretend to smother each other with a pillow.

Frequent strong language: one count found about 25 f-words and more than a dozen s-words, plus roughly 35 misuses of God's name and words like bitch, pussy and a gay slur.

A childhood memory shows Joel caught by his mother masturbating over a pornographic comic, with a bare breast briefly visible in the image. Two characters strip to underwear before implied off-screen sex. Also groping, a woman in underwear, brief male rear nudity and an affair.

Characters smoke marijuana on screen, and one woman babbles while high in front of her boss. Clementine drinks heavily, spikes her coffee with whiskey and crashes a car while drunk. Cigarettes, beer and sedatives also appear.

No real scares, but dreamlike sequences of memories collapsing, faces blurring and Joel fleeing through vanishing places can be disorienting, and the breakup is genuinely sad.