Saving Private Ryan: parents' guide

Extremely graphic: severed limbs, spilled organs, spurting arteries, and men set on fire and blown apart. Later a soldier is slowly stabbed in hand-to-hand fighting, a medic bleeds to death, and surrendering soldiers are shot.

Frequent. Plugged In counted more than 30 f- and s-words combined; other words include asshole and bastard, God's name is misused, and the acronym FUBAR is spelled out. Soldiers use slurs for the enemy.

No sex or nudity. Soldiers swap crude stories about past sexual experiences, including one about a girl back home, and make a crude joke about another man.

Soldiers smoke cigarettes and chew tobacco throughout, and there is some social drinking. No drug use.

The beach landing is a sustained, chaotic nightmare of death, and later firefights are almost as tense. A mother learns that three of her sons have been killed, and several sympathetic characters die.