Good Will Hunting: parents' guide

Will and his friends start a brawl on a basketball court, and Will beats a man bloody before police arrive. A therapist briefly grabs Will by the throat. Will recounts childhood beatings, a stabbing and cigarette burns he suffered in foster care.

Very frequent strong language in everyday banter, including constant f-words, s-words, crude terms for body parts and a slur for people with intellectual disabilities. One counted review tallied more than 100 profanities and vulgarities.

Will and his girlfriend kiss passionately and are shown in bed together after sex is implied, with no nudity. Dialogue among Will and his friends, and with his girlfriend, includes crude jokes about oral sex and masturbation.

Will and his friends smoke and drink beer in bars and at home throughout. Someone is described as hammered and the therapist mentions an alcoholic father, but nobody is shown badly drunk. A passing mention of Freud's cocaine use.

Not scary, but emotionally intense. Therapy sessions dig into childhood abuse, the therapist still grieves his late wife, and the breakthrough scene about Will's past can move viewers to tears.