Last Christmas: parents' guide

Very little. A fatal traffic accident is referred to but not shown, patients are rushed into a hospital, surgeons make a chest incision during a transplant, and a pet fish is accidentally electrocuted.

Frequent: about ten s-words, British slang such as bollocks, wanker, shag and sodding, and God's and Jesus' names as exclamations. There may be one f-word: a single detailed guide counts one, but the BBFC and four other guides list none.

Kate's repeated casual hookups are discussed rather than shown, though she wakes apparently naked under a blanket in a stranger's bed. Also a few kisses, crude sexual talk, jokes about male anatomy and a bawdy song.

Kate drinks heavily, gets drunk at least twice, keeps drinking against medical advice after a transplant, and does shots with her mother. The film treats her drinking as a problem rather than fun.

Not scary, but emotionally heavy: Kate's illness and surgery, her depression, and a late reveal about a character's death that brings real grief. A man's threats toward an immigrant couple on a bus are tense.