The Princess Bride: parents' guide

Sword duels and brawls with stabbings, some blood on wounds and shirts, and several deaths, mostly played for laughs. A man dies from poisoned wine, a giant rat is stabbed, and the hero screams on a torture machine until he appears dead.

Mild overall: "son of a bitch," "bastard," "arse," a few uses of "God," and one "Jesus" said by the boy, plus colorful name-calling such as "warthog-faced buffoon" and "vomitous mass."

Several long romantic kisses, one on a bed with both fully clothed. A single line praises the heroine's breasts, the hero is shirtless during torture, and the grandson keeps groaning that it's a "kissing book."

Inigo is described as a hopeless drunk and is shown badly intoxicated, singing in the street and having to be revived. Adults drink wine, and a battle of wits hinges on a poisoned goblet.

Several scary sequences: an eel attack in dark water, a fire swamp with bursts of flame, quicksand and huge rodents that leap out, and a torture chamber where the hero screams. The storybook frame keeps it from feeling bleak.