The Man Who Invented Christmas: parents' guide

Very little. In flashbacks, young Charles is hit and taunted by factory boys who leave a dead rat to mock him, and he punches a bully. As an adult he swings at an imaginary Scrooge and hurls an inkwell.

Occasional mild British swearing, with 'bloody' used at least four times, one 'ass' and a 'God's teeth,' plus insults such as 'scum-sucking' and 'money-grabbing' aimed at greedy characters.

Dickens and his wife kiss passionately and are shown in bed together twice, talking rather than being intimate. One line mentions streetwalkers in passing. No nudity.

Dickens's spendthrift father seems tipsy and acts drunk, gentlemen drink at a club, and several characters smoke pipes or cigars. None of it is glamorized, and no young characters drink.

Brief ghostly scenes from Dickens's imagination: a chained Marley bursts into his bedroom screaming, plus a hooded figure and a walk through a dark graveyard. A draft where Tiny Tim dies upsets a young maid, and flashbacks to his father's arrest are sad.