The Worst Person in the World: parents' guide
Best for ages 17 and up. Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and some language.
A funny, frank and finally sad Norwegian romantic drama for adults and older teens about a young woman working out love and career through her twenties. Sex is shown on screen several times, with topless female and brief full-frontal male nudity, and the sexual talk is explicit. A long magic-mushroom trip includes nude hallucinations and a bloody tampon image. Language is moderate. Later, a main character's terminal cancer brings real grief, and a miscarriage is implied. The sex and drug content put it at about 17.
What's in it
Violence
MildVery little: a man cuts his head on a lamp and bleeds, a corpse is opened in a medical class without the incision shown, and a brief crude cartoon gag involves a baby being eaten.
Language
ModerateSome strong words, including f-words, s-words, 'dick' and 'whore,' plus a crude sexual phrase. Common Sense calls the swearing frequent, but the BBFC counted only one f-word in the subtitles, and the MPA cites 'some language.'
Sex and nudity
StrongSeveral sex scenes, including implied oral sex, with topless women, bare buttocks and a brief glimpse of a man's penis afterward. Sex talk is detailed, with passing mentions of incest and rape.
Drinking, drugs and smoking
StrongFriends eat magic mushrooms, and the lead's long hallucination is shown, with nudity and menstrual blood smeared on her face. Wine, beer and shots at parties with mild drunkenness, and smoking.
Scary or intense scenes
ModerateA major character learns he has terminal cancer and declines in a bedroom fitted with medical equipment, with frank talk about dying. Blood in a shower implies a miscarriage. The drug trip is unsettling.
Worth talking about
Julie keeps switching paths, partners and careers. Talk about the pressure to have life figured out by a certain age, and whether changing your mind is failure or growth.
On our lists
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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, bbfc.co.uk, the MPA, Wikipedia. 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.