2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Parents Guide & Movie Info
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2001: A Space Odyssey - Family Review

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

1968 | 149 Minutes

No MPAA rating
IMDB: 8.3 ⭐️ Votes: 672,164

Content Warnings

  • Sexual Content
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    Men seen in underwear.

  • Violence
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    Animal violence. Some animals are killed without any gore. A hog is also shown being killed and later being eaten.

    There is a short scene in the beginning where ape-men kill another ape-man using bones.

    A wild jaguar-like animal attacks (and presumably kills) an ape-man. Shortly thereafter, the ape-men learn to kill the hog-like animals (tapirs) near them, and there are scenes of them carrying the meat around and eating it.

  • Profanity
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    A few uses of "damn" and "hell"

  • Intense Scenes
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    Most of the film contains mysterious, surreal, and potentially creepy atmosphere and imagery, and is often accompanied by a mysterious or even eerie score at times. The silence of space is also used to achieve similar effects.

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