Joker (2019)

What earned the score

• Government Healthcare as a Threat

  Arthur depends on government-run health care, but the city cuts his services and medication as its bureaucracy fails him. The story frames government control of health care as a source of harm and a warning about state dependency.

Details

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Starring

Joaquin PhoenixRobert De NiroZazie BeetzFrances ConroyBrett Cullen

Director

Todd Phillips

Writer

Scott SilverTodd PhillipsJerry RobinsonBob KaneBill Finger

Genre

CrimeThrillerDrama

Release Date

Oct 01, 2019

Parents Guide

• Sex Mild

  A man kisses a woman at her door and closes the door behind them, implying sex.

  A billboard shows three naked women with sensitive nudity obscured.

  Pictures of naked women are extremely briefly seen between pages of a notebook.

  A man is seen briefly in his underwear.

• Violence Severe

  Arthur stabs a man twice, once in the throat and then in the eye with blood spraying everywhere, then rams his head repeatedly against the wall 11 times, leaving a giant blood splatter. This is undoubtedly the most violent part of the movie.

  A man falls on the floor and is kicked repeatedly by three men until he pulls out a handgun and shoots one man twice in the chest (we see some blood spray on the walls), another man in the head, and the third man in the leg, before following him to shoot him another three times.

  Arthur's mother is smothered with a pillow (out of frame).

  Arthur walks away from a room with bloody footprints, implying that he may have murdered a person in the room.

  Two officers are beaten by a mob of rioters on the subway.

  Near the end of the film, another vehicle crashes into the police car Arthur is in. The crash happens quickly; when Arthur is taken out of the car, his nose is bloody. The two officers in the front seats aren't moving (it's unclear if they are dead or just unconscious).

  Arthur shoots Murray twice during a live talk show, blood sprays onto a wall behind the victim; people scream and run.

  A man is shot by a police officer on the subway. No blood seen.

  Violence is a theme throughout most of this film, people are shot in the head on a few occasions, with blood splattering. It's not quite horror film levels, but some scenes are particularly shocking.

  A gunman approaches the Wayne family and shoots Thomas and Martha Wayne. Blood is seen briefly. Then he shoots the mother and blood lands on the child.

• Profanity Moderate

  20 uses of "f**k", 1 uses of "s**t", 5 uses of "ass", 1 use of "b**ch", 2 uses of "Jesus", 1 use of "d**k".

  1 obscene hand gesture.

  20 f-words.

• Drugs Moderate

  Prescription medication use.

  Arthur smokes cigarettes almost continually.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  A man discovers that his mother allowed him to be abused by her partners while growing up.

  A man is bullied so hard that he decides to dress up like a clown and become a criminal which could upset sensitive viewers.

  This is a very dark and depressing movie.

  Implied domestic abuse and child abuse described in psychiatric records, including a child being tied to a radiator and malnourished, with severe trauma to the head.

  Arthur flirts with suicidal ideation at times which could upset sensitive viewers.

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