Parents Guide for
Heathers (1988) More at IMDbPro »

The opening scene has various explicit references to sex and masturbation, especially amongst a table of jock boys who sexually objectify the teen girls.

A character mentions he only wants to "get laid".

Two teens a shown cuddling in the nude, with a blanket covering them. The male mentions never having played "strip croquet".

While being bullied, a young boy is forced to say he likes to give oral sex to males.

A girl and boy have rough sex in the background, still clothed. It is implied that the female is being raped, though none of the other characters react as though she was.

A girl is told that rumors have started about her performing oral sex on two males at once. She later calls them and asks them if they want the rumors to come true.

Two males are told to strip as part of a sex game. They get down to their underwear.

While setting up a plot, a female character tells a male character that he can "rip her clothes off".

Two teenagers are making out in a car, wearing only their underwear.

Two males are made to look like they were homosexual lovers.

A teacher mentions confiscating sexually pornographic material involving a tennis racket.

A girl mentions being a virgin, but admits to having french kissed someone.

A boy forces a girl to kiss him.

A game of croquet is held, with three girls using another girl's head.

A girl mentions spewing burrito chunks.

A character being bullied pulls a gun out from his jacket and fires twice, with the camera focused on him. We later learn he fired blanks.

A girl mentions her menstrual cycle, but says nothing graphic.

A character is shown spitting water all over a bathroom mirror.

At a party, a character is shown throwing up. She leans off screen, but we still hear the sound. She then re-enters the camera view with chunks on her chin.

A character mentions wanting to see another character throw up. The two then graphically describe using poison to induce vomit, including vocally expressing the desirable vomit result.

A girl unwittingly drinks a cup filled with bleach and collapses face first into a glass table, dead.

A young male is chased and tackled, then put into a stranglehold.

One character is splattered with brown liquid from the ground. She later says that it was defecation.

A teen boy is shot in the neck. We see blood splatter. Another is chased by the shooter before being shot through the chest. We see the bullet enter, and small, red marks with minimal blood splatter.

A teenager burns her hand with a car lighter.

A video of a building imploding is shown.

A teenager shoots the screen out of a television set.

A girl is attacked, but the attack is performed behind a closed door. It is later revealed to have been a dream.

With the intent to murder, a boy crawls through a window to find his victim hanging from the ceiling. After he leaves, the victim pulls herself down, revealing the suicide to have been fake.

Two characters get into a fight: slamming each other into the walls, wielding a fire extinguisher, a gun and a knife.

A character graphically gets his finger shot off. We see blood running down as he tries to save himself. He is then shot twice more, though we do not see the bullet entry or blood.

The results of the fight are shown as the two characters leave, with both of them bloody and bruised.

As his suicide, a boy straps bombs to himself and sets them off. We do not see the results, but we do see a witness covered in soot.

Most curse words are used repeatedly, with emphasis on sexual terms as curses.

G*dd*mn is used within the first scene.

Another character shoots the finger.

Teen characters smoke and drink.

The movie is about teenagers murdering other teenagers and setting them up as suicides. Many people may find this and several pieces of the content disturbing.

A boy is chased naked through the woods before being shot to death.

A funeral is held, showing a pre-pubescent girl crying.

A girl pins a note to her chest and walks into oncoming traffic. Although she is later revealed to have survived her suicide attempt, the scene may be disturbing.

The entire class of children tease a character until she runs into the bathroom and empties an entire bottle of pills into her mouth. Another girl becomes nervous and goes to rescue her.

A boy rigs a school auditorium full of students to explode.