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Movie · Sports, Drama · 2011 · PG-13

Moneyball: parents' guide

13+our pick

Best for ages 13 and up. Rated PG-13 for some strong language.

A smart, grown-up sports drama that baseball-loving teens can enjoy with a parent, though it is more about strategy than game action. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, stuck with one of the smallest payrolls in baseball, teams up with a young economist to build a team using statistics. The PG-13 is for language: Plugged In counted two f-words and about 15 s-words, and Movieguide heard three or four f-words. Otherwise it is clean, with no sex or real violence, just Billy's temper and some drinking. Best for about 13 and up.

What's in it

Violence

Mild

No fights or injuries. Billy vents frustration by throwing a chair, overturning a desk, stomping a car radio and tossing a water cooler, and he uses a bullet metaphor when talking about cutting players.

Language

Moderate

A few f-words: Plugged In counted two and Movieguide three or four, along with roughly 15 s-words, a handful of 'ass' and 'hell,' and 'damn,' 'bitch' and 'pissed.' Common Sense adds 'dick' and 'crap.'

Sex and nudity

Mild

No sex scenes. Players are shirtless in the locker room, there are a few jokes about one player's strip-club and Las Vegas habits, and one crude remark about a player's anatomy.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Mild

Characters drink socially, Billy drinks alone at home when stressed, players spit chewing tobacco, and a player's fondness for marijuana is mentioned once.

Scary or intense scenes

None

Nothing scary. The tension comes from losing streaks, trades and job pressure, plus Billy's worry about what his young daughter thinks of him.

Worth talking about

Billy and Peter challenge how experts judge players, and many people push back. Ask your teen when trusting data over gut instinct makes sense, and how Billy's own past as a disappointing prospect shapes his choices.

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, the MPA, movieguide.org, bbfc.co.uk. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.