Memoir of a Snail: parents' guide

Stop-motion but sometimes gory: a man is stabbed through the chest, another is eaten by a crocodile, a ceiling fan severs a finger, and two boys get prolonged electric shocks for kissing. Also schoolyard beatings and a boy trapped in a burning building.

Plugged In counted two s-words, three uses of 'dickhead,' two misuses of God's name and about ten middle fingers. Other words include 'bastard,' 'wanker' and 'bugger,' and a character is called the homophobic slur 'poofter.' No f-words reported.

Clay nudity at swingers' parties and on a nudist cruise, including bare breasts; Plugged In reports male and female full-frontal shots. Comic sex with moaning, a judge fired for masturbating in court, a husband's secret nude photos, crude genital drawings, mating snails.

Alcoholism is a major thread: the twins' father, who uses a wheelchair, drinks heavily, and a disgraced judge passes out in the street. A man trades church money for whiskey, most adults smoke cigarettes or cigars, and someone bakes marijuana cookies.

Not a horror film, but grief runs through it: both parents die, the twins are separated, a foster mother is cruel, a boy repeatedly burns himself, pet guinea pigs are crushed by a falling shelf, and Grace tries to poison herself.