Movie · Romance, Comedy · 2018 · TV-MA

Set It Up: parents' guide

15+our pick

Best for ages 15 and up. Rated TV-MA.

A charming workplace rom-com for older teens, with more crude talk than its sweet tone suggests. Two overworked assistants in New York scheme to set up their demanding bosses so they will finally get some free time, and fall for each other along the way. There is no violence, but the dialogue is full of swearing, including a couple of f-words and a c-word, along with constant sex jokes, an overheard phone-sex call and a brief montage shot of a couple having sex. Characters drink at parties and some get drunk. Netflix rates it TV-MA; we suggest 15 and up.

What's in it

Violence

None

None. The conflict is office stress, demanding bosses and romantic scheming.

Language

Moderate

Frequent swearing: one count found at least 50 obscenities, including two f-words, with regular s-words, 'asshole,' 'bastard' and a c-word, plus crude sexual and bathroom words and some rude gestures.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

Constant sexual innuendo and frank sex talk, an overheard phone-sex call, a montage with a brief shot of a couple having sex, and kissing. A man undresses and urinates into a bottle in a stuck elevator, shown only from the waist up.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

Adults drink beer, wine and Scotch at parties and after work, and drunk characters appear in a couple of scenes, including one of the leads. Meth use is mentioned once. No smoking or drug use is shown.

Scary or intense scenes

None

Nothing scary. The stakes are jobs and relationships, and the closest thing to tension is a firing and some romantic fallout.

Worth talking about

Harper and Charlie manipulate their bosses for their own benefit: is it ever OK to meddle in someone else's relationship, and how do they try to make it right?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, movieguide.org, netflix.com, Wikipedia, Rotten Tomatoes, screenwiseapp.com. 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.