It (2017)

What earned the score

• Homophobic Slurs as Bullying and Casual Profanity

  A bully targets the Losers Club with an anti-gay slur, and the children also use the slur amid the film’s profanity. Together, these uses make homophobic language part of the story’s vocabulary of bullying and casual insult.

• Beverly’s Father Sexualizes and Assaults Her

  Beverly’s father strokes her hair and shoulders, asks whether she is doing “womanly things” with boys, and throws her to the ground as if attempting to rape her. The scene depicts a child in an explicit sexualized abuse situation.

• Sexualized Framing of Beverly

  Thirteen-year-old Beverly appears in a bra and panties while the boys are in their underwear, then lies sunbathing as they stare at her. The scene sexualizes minors through revealing clothing and the boys’ lustful gaze.

• Child Flirts with Adult

  Beverly flirts with a very old, creepy pharmacist while her friends steal medical supplies. The scene uses a child’s flirtation with an adult as part of the film’s sexualized material.

• Sexualized Rumors Target a Thirteen-Year-Old

  Beverly, who is thirteen, is accused of sleeping around, and a boy taunts her while grabbing and stroking his crotch. The scene places a minor in an explicitly sexualized context.

Details

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

Starring

Jaeden MartellJeremy Ray TaylorSophia LillisFinn WolfhardChosen Jacobs

Director

Andy Muschietti

Writer

Stephen KingCary Joji FukunagaChase PalmerGary Dauberman

Genre

HorrorThrillerDrama

Release Date

Sep 06, 2017

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  Two boys and a girl go swimming in their underwear. After swimming, they just sit around and talk while the girl suns herself still in her bra. They also stare at her when she does suns herself.

  There is reference to a man sexually abusing his daughter.

  A boy and a girl are passionately kissing.

  References to a girl being a "sl*t". Boys make moderate sexual references and innuendos, they also fantasize about a girl.

  A girl has a reputation as being promiscuous, however, they are just rumors and she denies it.

  Beverly's dad pins her down to the floor after she hits him. She kicks him in the balls and runs. This scene is implied, but it's not graphic.

  Beverly's dad smells her hair and later claims to have found the poem Ben wrote her in her underwear drawer.

  A father is constantly touching his daughter and calling her "my girl"

• Violence Severe

  A young boy reaches into the sewer for his paper boat, and a clown (Pennywise) opens his slobbering mouth with five rows of sharp teeth, biting his arm off; the boy tries to crawl away, but is pulled into the sewer.

  A teenage girl hides in her bathroom from her abusive father, and she hits him on the head with the toilet tank lid, he is seen lying in a large pool of blood later.

  It is implied that several sheep are killed with a bolt gun.

  A young boy gets his arm ripped off.

  Teenagers open a door and briefly see the upper half of a teenage girl hanging in a room, still alive and screaming.

  The story is about friendship and doing anything to help your friends, thought there are violent scenes throughout. 14+

  One of the children falls through a hole on a table, where we see after his bent arm, apparently fractured, no blood is shown.

  A child's arm is visibly broken after a fall, and another teen snaps it back into place.

  The clown can look creepy at certain times.

  Teens on opposite sides of a river have a rock war which involves them throwing rocks at each other, some get hit with rocks, and some get mildly injured.

• Profanity Severe

  Strong profanity is used by young teenagers, including 2 uses of "f**k" and a couple uses of "s**t" and "d**n".

  The slur ret*rd is also used at one point.

  The word "sl*t" is said.

  You and your fa**ot friends (slur)

• Drugs Mild

  A girl is seen holding a cigarette, although we don't actually see her smoking it.

  A teenage boy uses prescription medication; it's later revealed that his mother tricked him into taking them to make him weak and dependent on her.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  Pennywise distorts himself and moves in unnatural ways.

  There are many jumpscares. There're 4 major and about 20ish minor ones.

  In one scene after Pennywise gets stabbed In the eye he turns around with his mouth ripped open showing a little bit of IT and pairs of sharp teeth can be seen, then he rips his hand open with sharp spider like claws.

  Bill's main priority throughout the movie is that he'll find Georgie alive and well, despite both his father and Richie telling him otherwise, many scenes involving this can be emotional.

  Bill finds Georgie hiding behind a well. He walks over to Bill, lacking an arm and holding his paper boat, crying that he wants to go home. At the end of their conversation, Bill shoots Georgie in the forehead. It turns out afterwards that "Georgie" was merely a form of Pennywise's.

  It transforms into a homeless man with Leprosy. His nose is missing, his eyes are red, his skin is covered in grotesque rashes, and there is a sticky substance leaking from his mouth. One of his legs is incredibly slim, while the other leg is about as wide as an elephant's leg.

  Pennywise can unhinge its jaw like a snake, it's disturbing to watch.

  Pennywise is seen opening his mouth very wide there are also many sharp teeth in his mouth along with a glowing light in the back of his throat. Can be frightening to some younger viewers.

  A girl is blasted in the face with gallons of blood.

  Towards the end of the movie, a leper vomits what looks like black tar all over one of the boys- very graphic

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