Parents Guide for
Sideways (2004)

A fully nude man (his genitals are clearly visible) chases another man out of his house. A couple have sex, we see them both nude and we hear them talking in crude terms about her having had sex with another man; another man is in the hallway watching them. A man walks into his hotel room where he sees a nude woman lying on a bed with her legs in the air and a man thrusting in front of her. We hear a woman moaning rhythmically from another room. A fully nude man stands in a doorway with his hands over his genitals. A man buys a pornographic magazine. A man makes references to sexual positions and a man makes a graphic sexual reference while walking through a restaurant. A man asks another man for details about a sexual encounter. A man talks about having had sex with women and makes comments about what kind of lover each one is ("she's an animal," etc.). A man talks to another man frequently about spending a week trying to find someone to have sex with him. A woman says to a man, "I need to be spanked." A man talks about a type of woman being "grateful" to him for having sex with her.

A woman beats a man in the head and face repeatedly with her motorcycle helmet (we see the man with a bloody hand holding a cloth over his face, then we see him later at the hospital with a bloody bandage over his nose and we hear that he will need surgery to repair the damage). A man drives a car into a tree (no one is hurt), and then by jamming the accelerator sends it through a fence and into a ditch (no one is in the car). A man talks about running from a house after being discovered having sex with a woman by the woman's husband. A golf ball lands near two men on a golf green, one of the men hits his ball toward another group of golfers, and two from that group ride their golf cart toward the first two men; one of the men charges toward the cart yelling and swinging a golf club. A man argues with a man over a glass of wine, they struggle over the glass, eventually spilling it, and then the man drinks a bucket of discarded wine, pouring much of it down the front of his shirt. A man yells at another man when he tells him some disturbing news. A man runs down a hill and through a vineyard while drinking a bottle of wine and being chased by another man. A man sits on a toilet and we see his bare legs. A man drinks alcohol while driving and people are shown driving after having had a lot of alcohol to drink; also, a man solves a crossword puzzle while driving on a highway.

65 F-words and its derivatives, 16 sexual remarks, 16 scatological terms, 23 anatomical terms, 5 mild obscenities, 8 derogatory terms for women (e.g. chick), 1 derogatory term for homosexuals, name-calling (dumb, stupid), 1 religious profanity, 10 religious exclamations

People are shown drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco and marijuana. People are shown drinking alcohol while driving, as well as driving under the influence of alcohol.