Send Help parents guide

Send Help Parent Guide

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Overall

Theaters: After a plane crash, a woman finds herself on a remote island with her loathsome boss - but he's injured and she's in charge now.

Release date January 30, 2026

Violence
Sexual Content
Profanity
Substance Use

Why is Send Help rated R? The MPAA rated Send Help R for strong/bloody violence and language

Run Time: 113 minutes

Parent Movie Review

Directed by Sam Raimi. Starring Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien. Running time: 113 minutes. Theatrical release January 30, 2026. Updated

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Rating & Content Info

Why is Send Help rated R? Send Help is rated R by the MPAA for strong/bloody violence and language

Violence: A mid-air disaster sees people sucked out of a plane to their off-screen deaths. A plane crashes into the sea and there is an explosion. There are occasional jump scares. There are frequent scenes of knife threat: a woman threatens to cut off a man's genitals, a woman slices a rat with a knife, a bloody scene involves repeated stabbings of a screaming, thrashing wild boar. A person is stabbed with a fork. There are scenes of physical fighting that involve biting and choking. There is an attempt at gouging out an eyeball. A person rips off part of someone else's scalp. A person is beaten with a golf club. A character's head is smashed with a rock and a character is hit in the head with a bottle. People experience dangerous falls from a height. A decomposing dead body is seen as is a severed animal head. There are scenes of firearms threat. Bloody wounds are seen. There is reference to domestic violence.
Sexual Content: A man's buttocks are visible in bathing and swimming contexts. A woman's cleavage can be seen. A woman implies that she will help a man survive in exchange for sex.
Profanity: Frequent profanity includes sexual expletives, crude anatomical terms, sexual hand gestures, scatological curses, and terms of deity.
Drugs/Alcohol: Characters are drugged and poisoned.

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