500 Miles

Moments of threat include a child falling from a boat into open water, leading his brother to jump in after him. There are also tense moments in which a young boy becomes trapped on a coach as it sets off without his family, and of a drunken man behaving in a somewhat intimidating way toward a teenage boy. A child experiences a briefly intense asthma attack.

There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as other terms including 'prick', 'dick', 'feck', 'frig', 'shit', 'bollocks', 'bastard' 'bloody', 'arse', 'Jesus Christ' and 'God'. There is also occasional use of the middle finger gesture.

Characters make infrequent and undetailed comic verbal references to sex.

Brief and undetailed references are made to drugs in a medical context.

It is visually and verbally implied that a character briefly considers taking his own life.

A drunken man behaving in a threatening way to a teenager tells a young woman he will stop if she kisses him; she rebukes his advance and the threat goes no further.

There is occasional, brief toilet humour.

Two boys secretly exit their home through a top floor window and climb precariously over rooftops to leave unnoticed. A young boy stows away in the baggage compartment of a coach.

The film deals with themes of bereavement and features emotional scenes as characters struggle with grief. References are made to a woman's dementia.

Adults occasionally drink alcohol in social settings, and an underage boy is bought a pint of beer to try for the first time by his grandfather.