Parents Guide for
Lady in the Water (2006) More at IMDbPro »

- No personal areas are shown anywhere in the film.-

A young woman swims naked in a pool, but she is offscreen except for one shot where all you see is her head and her arms. The same woman wears only a long shirt to cover herself. Her legs are always visible up to just below her thighs. A woman is shown standing in a shower, only visible from the collar up, and later from the knees down. Later in another shower, she is sitting with her knees brought up to her chest (in one shot she is completely visible from above, still no personals are shown.) Apart from this, just more scenes above the collar or below the knees. There is one sex joke in the WHOLE entire movie and it relates to the paragraph above. It is very breifly inplied to one not so smart person that Mr. Heeps and Story had sex in the stairwell. She says that she feels "sick" and that she is waring nothing but another one of Mr. Heep's shirt. It's quite humorous. Nothing any kid would suspect and very LIGHT innudo.

A wolf-like creature snarls at a man, the man turns to run and the creature attacks and kills him (we hear the man scream and see him being pulled down).

Three monkey-like creatures jump out of trees and attack a wolf-like creature (we hear pounding and squishing and see them drag it into the thick woods).

A wolf-like creature grabs and drags a young woman through tall grass (the woman is unconscious and has large cuts on her legs).

A wolf-like creature breaks through a glass window snarling and snapping and trying to reach a young woman (she gets away).

We see the glowing red eyes of a wolf-like creature hiding in the grass: the creature rises and a man faces it, the creature lunges toward him and we see the man lying face down on a patio (the creature is gone and the man is unharmed).

A wolf-like creature walks toward a man and a young woman but it is steered away by another man.

A young woman runs into an apartment building whimpering and crying, with large scratches on her legs from a wolf-like creature that attacked her.

A man carries a sleeping young woman out of his apartment and toward a swimming pool, he hears snarling and deep growling coming from the tall grass around it, and we see a dark, wolf-like creature moving toward them; the young woman wakes up and screams, and the man screams and runs carrying her back inside, while the creature lunges at them.

A wolf-like creature prowls in the grass surrounding a swimming pool through much of the movie and we hear it snarling and growling.

Something moves in a dark swimming pool and a man goes in to investigate afraid that whoever it is, is drowning.

A man slips on the side of a pool, falls hard on the cement and rolls into the pool unconscious (we see him unharmed in his bed later).

A man swims through a pool drain, along a passageway and into a room where he becomes stuck when the door jams; he struggles to get the door open before he drowns (he does get out).

A young woman has a large cut on her leg that does not appear to heal.

Several people scream because of a large hairy bug that is under their cabinets, and a man kills the bug with a broom handle (he has to hit it repeatedly to kill it and the people scream with each blow).

We see drawings of wolf-like creatures attacking humanoid beings and we see one wolf holding a being in its mouth.

Several people carrying household implements (brooms and mops) patrol around a swimming pool.

A man vomits at a party after drinking too much alcohol (we see the goo and hear the gagging).

We hear that a man's wife and children were murdered during a robbery.

We hear that the scratch from a wolf-like creature is poisonous.

We hear a woman talking about a smell from a neighboring apartment and that she fears something may have died in there.

A woman talks about her husband having a growth on his buttocks.

2 anatomical terms, 1 mild obscenity, name-calling (dumb), 9 religious exclamations

Several men smoke cigarettes in several scenes. A man yells at several men who are smoking. People are shown drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes in a party scene. People are shown drinking beer in a few scenes. Man refers to himself and his friends as "tokers"

A man tries and apparently succeeds at killing a large insect of some sort under a tenant's sink, but we don't see it or the impact (just the motion of his jabs). This is played for comedy, but those afraid of big bugs might find it unsettling.

the monsters in the film maybe frightening to (take this in a serious manner) wimps and very very small children. I'm talking 7 though 10 year olds.

one man is attacked and you don't see him in the rest of the movie, so I guess you could say he dies.

The wolves or "scrunts" are the only thing that would keep me from showing this to my kids one day.

After all, this whole movie is based on a bedtime story the directer/writer, M. Night Shamalon, made up and told his kids. So I say go ahead, full on family fun except wimps and 8 year olds.