Goodfellas: parents' guide

Frequent and graphic: men are shot in the head with spurts of blood, stabbed and beaten, and one is stomped until his face is disfigured. A neighbor is pistol-whipped bloody, a young waiter is shot, and murdered crew members turn up in a meat truck.

Constant. Movieguide counted roughly 340 obscenities, with the f-word in nearly every scene, plus 'motherf---er,' the n-word and other ethnic and antisemitic slurs.

Henry openly cheats on his wife, with passionate kissing and groping. One sexual scene implies oral sex without showing detail, nudity is glimpsed briefly in a sexual moment, and crude sexual talk is frequent.

Henry deals and snorts cocaine, and his habit spirals into a jittery, paranoid addiction shown in detail; his wife and others use too. Heavy drinking and smoking are constant and often end in violence.

Violence erupts without warning, often in the middle of friendly banter, which makes it jarring. Bodies are dumped and dug up, and a frantic late section captures Henry's drug-fueled paranoia.