Oppenheimer: parents' guide

Little action. The bomb test is a huge, roaring fireball, and dialogue covers the deaths in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and firebombed cities. A woman is briefly shown drowning in a bathtub, and Oppenheimer injects an apple with poison before stopping anyone from eating it.

Plugged In counted eight f-words and four s-words, and Movieguide at least ten f-words, plus 'damn,' 'hell,' 'ass,' 'crap' and repeated misuse of God's and Jesus' names. Much of the dialogue is dense scientific and political talk.

Several sex scenes show a woman's bare breasts and sexual movement, plus conversation in bed while she is topless. In one symbolic scene Oppenheimer sits naked at his hearing with a woman on top of him. His affairs run through the story.

Oppenheimer smokes cigarettes and a pipe almost constantly, and others smoke throughout. Characters drink often, and his wife is shown leaning on alcohol. No drug use.

Haunting rather than scary: visions of a woman's face peeling away and a charred body, a pounding score around the bomb test, and the dread of mass destruction. A former lover's death, treated as suicide, is shown briefly with her head under the bathwater.