The Half of It: parents' guide

Very little: a girl slaps a boy across the face after he embarrasses her in public, someone gets hit, and a teen tumbles off a bike without being hurt. No weapons or blood.

Light overall. One review counted a single s-word, two each of "hell" and "damn," plus "crap," "badass," a clipped "effin" and an unfinished "what the." "Oh my God" comes up a few times.

Kissing only: a boy and girl kiss, two girls share a kiss, and a couple make out in a school hallway. Two girls float in a hot spring in their underwear. Some frank talk about attraction, but nothing sexual is shown.

Teens drink at a house party, where Ellie plays a drinking version of a board game, gets drunk and vomits, and Paul looks after her. The next morning she takes two pain-relief pills for the hangover. No drug use or smoking.

Nothing frightening. The sad notes are Ellie's loneliness, classmates jeering at her, and her father's lingering grief for her mother, who died before the story begins. A public scene in a church is awkward rather than upsetting.